Natural Greatness Veterinary Wet: Gastrointestinal review

Ingredients, as declared: Turkey (50%), Pumpkin (10%), Minerals (1%), Salmon oil (0.5%), MOS (0.2%).

The statements here are strikingly brief, four or five entries in most cases, with the meat percentage printed at the front. That makes them quick to read, but minerals appear only as a category and no additive panel is given, so the vitamin and trace mineral doses are nowhere on the label.

Meat sits high across the line. Turkey at 50% in the gastrointestinal recipe, chicken at 56% in the joint one, chicken at 40% with turkey at 28% in the obesity recipe. The hepatic and urinary ones write chicken by part: stomach, liver, fat and neck. Naming the parts is more candour than a category heading would give you.

Fish comes in as an oil in five of the six, so the urinary recipe is the only one that leaves it out. Cottage cheese at 5% brings dairy into the hepatic recipe and beef liver at 5% brings beef into the urinary one, both easy to overlook on a list this short.

Plant matter is sparse by design. Where an entry appears it is pumpkin, potato, sweet potato or quinoa, and the joint recipe carries none at all. The obesity recipe uses cellulose at 3% purely as bulk, a purified plant fibre that travels through a dog largely undigested. Glucosamine and chondroitin sulphate are dosed in the joint and obesity recipes only, with MSM alongside them in the joint one.

Four of the six print their moisture and two do not, so a couple of the dry matter columns rest on a standard assumption. Take the water out of a recipe leaning on organ meat and fat and the fat figure climbs, as far as 47.3%. That is the arithmetic of a rich loaf, not a fault in it. Picking between them is a conversation for the practice rather than something to settle from a label.

Turkey at 50% and pumpkin at 10% are most of this one, with minerals at 1%, salmon oil at 0.5% and MOS at 0.2% completing a five-entry list. Turkey and fish are the only animal inputs anywhere on it.

Moisture is declared at 82.0%, the wettest in the line. Take it out and protein converts to 48.9% of dry matter and fat to 19.4%, with carbohydrate estimated at 18.4% and energy at 77 kcal per 100g.

Each recipe is sold in a single 400g pack.