Natural Greatness Complete Wet Adult Light Cod review

Our reading places this in the Good band, with the typical adult wet food further up in our Excellent band, and the distance is mostly the arithmetic of a light diet. Take the water out and protein reads a strong 46.9% of dry matter, but the same sum leaves ash at 20.3%, which is high, and very little fat at 17.2%. Nutritional balance and transparency both read Outstanding, with protein and processing at Average. This pack is deliberately thin and low in calories. It does precisely what it was built for. Our scale measures it against every adult wet food, not only against other light ones.

That context matters if you are choosing it for a dog on a diet. The qualities that hold the score steady are the same ones that make it useful: the calories per serving are genuinely low, and the protein that is there is largely fish.

Ingredients, as declared: Cod (50%), Red pepper (2%), Pumpkin (2%), Olive oil (2%), Potato (2%), Minerals, Yeasts, Hydrolyzed fish protein, Xylose, Dextrose, and Thyme (0.1%).

Cod at 50% is the whole point of the pack. It is a lean white fish that is low in fat and gentle on digestion. Naming the species where the label could just have said fish is the kind of detail that makes a label worth reading.

Behind it the plant entries are modest and printed: red pepper, pumpkin and potato at 2% each, with olive oil also at 2%. Olive oil is an unusual choice in a dog food and a good one, since it brings vitamin E and antioxidants along with its fat. Thyme at 0.1% closes the list.

A handful of entries need naming honestly. Hydrolysed fish protein is fish broken into fragments. It helps palatability and sits easily on the gut. The label does not say which fish, and a strict single species plan needs that. The yeasts are unnamed too. Xylose and dextrose are sugars, sitting low on the list and present for taste, not nutrition; a small amount will not trouble a healthy dog, but they are worth seeing before you buy.

The analysis is what a light recipe looks like from the inside. At 87.2% moisture there is very little dry matter in the pack at all, and once you convert what is there, protein reads 46.9%, fat 17.2% and carbohydrate just 7.8%. The flip side is ash at 20.3% of dry matter, which is high, and it reflects how small that dry portion is rather than a heap of added minerals.

The added panel we hold is short and dosed, opening with vitamin A at 4320 IU. Zinc, iron, manganese, copper and iodine are each printed per kilo. Every figure on it carries a number beside it, which is more than plenty of wet labels bother with.

Sold in a 390 g pack. A per kilo figure for it is not one we hold at the moment.

As a guide, a 15kg adult dog in moderate condition would eat roughly 1909 grams a day. That works from about 840 kcal a day (110 × bodyweight^0.75, the standard maintenance estimate) and the declared 44 kcal per 100g. That is a great deal of food for a dog that size, which is why a recipe this light usually goes to smaller dogs or gets served beside something denser. The label's own guide is lighter than our estimate, putting a 9 to 20 kg dog on 1170 grams a day.