Natural Greatness Veterinary Dry: Renal-Oxalate review

Ingredients, as declared: Fresh Turkey Meat 14%, Potato, Peas, Chicken Oil 11.6%, Tapioca, Potato Starch, Carob, Dehydrated Blue Fish 4.5%, Pea Protein, Apple Pulp, Sweet Potato, Hydrolysed Turkey Liver 2.7%, Dehydrated Turkey Meat 2.2%, Lentils 2%, Blue Fish Oil 0.9%, Flaxseed, Brewer's Yeast, Calcium Carbonate, Dehydrated Whole Egg 0.3%, Potassium Chloride, Fruit Mix 0.3% (pear and blueberries), Vegetable Mix 0.3% (parsnip, bay leaf, parsley and dandelion), Potassium Citrate (urine alkalising action) 0.25%, Sodium Chloride, Inulin (FOS), Hydrolysed Yeast Cell Wall (source of MOS), Yucca Schidigera, Glucosamine, Chondroitin Sulphate.

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.

Fresh turkey meat opens at 14% and chicken oil comes high up the list at 11.6%. Dehydrated blue fish is at 4.5%, hydrolysed turkey liver at 2.7%, dehydrated turkey at 2.2% and blue fish oil at 0.9%. Dehydrated whole egg is in at 0.3%, and potassium citrate is listed at 0.25% with a urine alkalising action printed beside it. Calcium carbonate is named among the minerals.

Protein converts to 17.4% of dry matter, the most restricted figure in the line, while fat runs to 19.6% and carbohydrate is estimated at 52.2%, with energy at 384 kcal per 100g. Pulling protein down and letting fat and starch supply the calories is the standard shape for a kidney recipe rather than a thin formulation. A lightly exercised 15kg dog is given 189 grams a day.

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