Natural Greatness Complete Wet Adult Light Duck and Rabbit review

This one earns our Excellent band, where the typical adult wet food also finishes, and a very clean list is what carries it there. Two named meats make up more than half the can between them, protein converts to 49.7%, and carbohydrate barely registers at 1.3% of dry matter against 15.8% for the wet norm. Nutritional balance and transparency both read Outstanding, and protein and processing sits well below them at Good. It cannot climb higher because the label declares so little beyond those five entries. The named ingredients account for a little over half the can and nothing says what fills the rest, which in a wet food of this kind will be water or cooking juices.

Ingredients, as declared: Duck meat (30%), Rabbit meat (26%), Tomato (2%), Apple (2%), Fennel Seeds (0.1%).

Duck meat at 30% and rabbit meat at 26% carry the whole recipe. Both are good, digestible meats. Neither turns up often in everyday dog food, so plenty of dogs will never have eaten either. That is what makes a pairing like this useful when you are hunting for something genuinely new.

Tomato and apple at 2% each and fennel seeds at 0.1% are the only other named entries, and there is nothing else on the label at all. It is unusually spare for a complete food, and the spareness is the appeal: with five ingredients printed there is very little room for anything to hide.

The analysis is the strong part. Protein converts to 49.7% of dry matter and carbohydrate to 1.3%, so nearly everything in the can that is not water is animal. Fat converts to 28.8% of dry matter, which is not a lean figure at all. The light positioning comes from the 70 kcal in each 100g rather than from a low fat recipe. That distinction is worth understanding if a vet has put your dog on a reduced fat diet specifically.

There is no added oil of any kind, so the fat in the can is whatever the duck and the rabbit bring with them. That keeps the list short, and it also means the omega oils a salmon oil or a fish oil would contribute are simply not part of this recipe.

The added panel is short and dosed, running to vitamin A at 2160iu, vitamin E at 5.4iu, zinc at 24.08mg and iron, manganese, copper and iodine each with a figure beside them. Every entry carries a number, which is the same habit the ingredient list shows: say what is in it, and say how much.

Sold as a 400 gram can. There is no per kilo figure against it with us at the moment.

As a guide, a 15kg adult dog in moderate condition would eat around 1195 grams a day. That takes about 840 kcal a day as the maintenance target (110 × bodyweight^0.75) and the declared 70 kcal per 100g. That is close to three cans. The label's own guide asks for less, putting a 9 to 20 kg dog on 760 grams a day.