Natural Greatness Monoprotein Complete Wet Adult: Lamb review

The typical adult wet recipe already reaches Excellent on our scoring, so the shelf these cans stand on is a strong one. Most of them sit a step clear of that company. What lifts them is protein and processing, which reads Excellent on all five labels, a rating very few foods of any kind manage. Protein converts to between 40.0% and 47.5% of dry matter and estimated carbohydrate tops out at 10.0%, against the 15.8% that adult wet food typically carries. Nutritional balance reads Outstanding right across the five, and transparency does the same on four of them, with the rabbit a shade behind at Excellent.

Ingredients, as declared: Lamb meat (98%), Vegetable oils and fats.

There is really only one thing to weigh up here, and it is the 98%. That figure is the named animal, printed on the front of the can and repeated in the composition, and behind it comes an added fat at roughly 0.8% of the recipe. Nothing else is declared. Protein lands between 40.0% and 47.5% of dry matter depending on which animal you pick. By the standards of the wet shelf that is a genuinely meat-led analysis.

Fat is the other headline. It converts to 32.5% of dry matter across most of the range and 34.2% in the lamb. These are rich cans. They suit a working or active dog well, and they ask you to watch the portions if your dog is already carrying weight.

Vegetable oils and fats is the one broad term on the labels. It tells you the fat comes from a plant without telling you which plant, and wording of that kind lets the source move between batches while the printed list stays the same. On a composition this short it stands out more than it would on a long one, though it is doing a very small job. The rabbit can goes a step broader still, listing only oils and fats. That leaves the origin open. If a particular animal is the one you are keeping out, it matters.

The added panel is short, and there is a figure beside every entry: vitamin A and vitamin D3, then zinc, iron, copper, iodine, manganese and selenium. The selenium is the organic form, not the sodium salt most makers reach for, which is a small sign of care on a label that had no obligation to bother. In a recipe this meat-dense the micronutrition largely comes with the meat, so a short panel here reads as confidence, not economy.

What you do not get is any plant matter to speak of. The choice is deliberate, not an oversight. Estimated carbohydrate runs from 5.0% of dry matter in the chicken to 10.0% in the rabbit, where the typical adult wet food sits at 15.8%. If your dog does well on meat and water and little else, that is the whole appeal.

Lamb meat at 98%. Take the water out and it is the richest can of the five, with fat at 34.2% of dry matter. It also carries the lightest mineral reading in the range, with crude ash at 10.5% of dry matter, and it is the one recipe declaring 81.0% moisture rather than 80.0%.

The Rabbit is the recipe with a figure to hand, at £7.08 a kilo. The range is sold in 170 gram and 400 gram cans.

As a guide, feeding the Rabbit works out at around £6.31 a day for a 15kg adult dog in moderate condition, or roughly 892 grams. About 840 kcal a day is the target behind those numbers (110 × bodyweight^0.75, the standard maintenance estimate). The same estimate lands between 863 and 895 grams a day across the five recipes, the turkey being the lightest portion because it carries the most energy per can.