Natural Greatness Complete Wet Puppy review

Our Outstanding band is where this can settles. The midpoint of the wet puppy category already sits in our Excellent band, so clearing that by a band is a genuine result. Nutritional balance and transparency both read Outstanding, with protein and processing just behind in Excellent.

Meat at more than half the tin and a genuinely short ingredient list are what earn the placing.

Ingredients, as declared: Chicken meat (55%), Carrot (4%), Sunflower Oil (3%), Pineapple (5% from dehydrated), Minerals, Linseed (0.5%), Cranberries (1% from dehydrated), Apple Juice.

Chicken meat at 55% is really the whole story, and the analysis backs it up. Protein at 37.8% of dry matter and fat at 32.7% say the food was built out of meat, not around it. There is no starchy filler hiding beneath the headline. The carbohydrate estimate is 12.6% of dry matter, just under the 13.6% typical of wet puppy food.

No other animal appears in the recipe. No fish oil, no unnamed fat, no meat derivative. That is exactly what an owner running a one protein trial needs, and it is rare in a can.

The plant side is small and named. Pineapple at 5% and cranberries at 1%, both from dehydrated, bring antioxidants, with cranberry well regarded for urinary support, and carrot at 4% adds soluble fibre along with the pigments behind vitamin A.

Sunflower oil at 3% and linseed at 0.5% handle the fats between them, one of the lighter vegetable oils and a seed rich in plant omega 3. There is no marine oil in the tin, so a puppy relying on this alone is getting the plant form of omega 3 rather than the marine one.

Each added mineral carries a printed dose: zinc oxide 37.18mg, iron carbonate 11.86mg, manganese oxide 7.49mg, copper sulphate 3.01mg and potassium iodide 1.47mg per kilo. No vitamins are listed and no calcium figure appears in the analysis. Of those two gaps, calcium is the one that counts in a growth food, and most of all in a pup headed for a large adult size.

Apple juice closes the list, a small sweetener and moisture carrier rather than a nutritional entry in its own right. The declared moisture of 74.6% is on the drier side for a can. The energy comes out at 118 kcal per 100g partly for that reason.

Sold as a 400g can.

You feed wet food in bigger volumes than kibble, and a puppy's needs shift month to month. Work from the growth guidance on the tin and from how well your pup is covering their ribs, not from a set number of cans.