Natural Greatness Veterinary Dry: Obesity & Diabetic review

Ingredients, as declared: Dehydrated Turkey Meat 22.5%, Peas, Pea Protein, Apple Pulp, Fresh Turkey Meat 10%, Tapioca, Flaxseed, Vegetable Fibres, Brewer's Yeast, Hydrolysed Turkey Liver 2.3%, Lentils 2%, Quinoa 2%, Salmon Oil 0.3%, Fruit Mix 0.3% (plum and pear), Vegetable Mix 0.3% (spinach, pumpkin, broccoli and dog rose), Sodium Chloride, MSM 1.000 mg/kg, Inulin (FOS), Hydrolysed Yeast Cell Wall (source of MOS), Glucosamine 900 mg/kg, Yucca Schidigera, Chondroitin Sulphate 200 mg/kg, Fenugreek, Ginger, Turmeric, L-Carnitine 300 mg/kg.

The six share an architecture. A dehydrated meat opens most of them, with a fresh meat of the same species behind it. The starch is some arrangement of potato, tapioca, peas, lentils and quinoa depending on which recipe you have. Apple pulp and beet pulp carry fibre in several of them, and carob turns up in four.

Every one of the six declares inulin as a source of FOS and hydrolysed yeast cell wall as a source of MOS, both prebiotic fibres. Every one also carries glucosamine and chondroitin sulphate. Four print the milligram per kilogram doses beside them; the gastrointestinal and renal recipes name the pair without figures. Manufactured glucosamine is usually drawn from shellfish shells, so a shellfish reaction on file is worth mentioning to the vet.

Hydrolysed fractions run right through the line, and which animal they come from depends on the recipe: chicken, salmon, turkey liver, or turkey and chicken liver together. The urinary one adds hydrolysed milk protein at 0.1%. Breaking a protein into fragments does not put the animal it came from outside the bowl, which is the thing to hold on to when the point of the diet is exclusion.

None of the six is a fish-free option: a fish oil is in all of them, salmon in five and blue fish in the renal recipe. Chicken oil appears in four, which puts chicken into recipes whose meat is otherwise turkey. The label style makes that easy to check, since every animal entry is named.

None of the six declares its moisture, so the dry matter columns rest on a standard assumption, and none prints a vitamin or trace mineral panel, so those doses are not there to read. Energy is given recipe by recipe and runs from 303 to 384 kcal per 100g, and four of the six write their feeding tables for a lightly exercised dog. Which of the six belongs in your dog's bowl is a choice to make with the vet who knows the diagnosis.

Turkey carries this one, dehydrated at 22.5% and fresh at 10%, with hydrolysed turkey liver at 2.3% and salmon oil right down at 0.3%. Peas, pea protein, apple pulp, tapioca, lentils at 2% and quinoa at 2% fill out the base, and vegetable fibres add bulk on top of them.

Protein converts to 34.8% of dry matter, the highest across the six. Fat drops to 8.7%, crude fibre climbs to 9.8%, carbohydrate is estimated at 38.0% and energy at 303 kcal per 100g. That combination is what a recipe intended for fat loss is meant to look like. L-carnitine is dosed at 300 mg per kilogram, MSM is printed in milligrams per kilogram as well, and the table reads 226 grams a day at 15kg.

All six are listed in the same two bag sizes, 2kg and 6kg.