Nutriwolds Complete: Lamb Cool Pot review

Seven of the eight recipes reach our Outstanding band, with the unroasted beef a step below in Excellent. They manage that in the toughest category we score, where the middle of the field carries the top word too. What sets these labels apart is the detail: a percentage on everything, named cuts, named organs, a printed bone figure and organic produce behind the vegetables. Even the beef finishes close enough to the rest that the ranking is not the thing to choose on. Pick the animal and the richness that suit your dog and you will not be giving anything up.

Ingredients, as declared: All ingredients are Human Grade, certified Farmer Assured meat and organic vegetables and herbs. Grass Fed Lamb (61.97%), Grass Fed Ox Heart (16.47%), Grass Fed Ox Liver (7.88%), Free Range Egg Yolk (2.78%), Organic Courgettes (2.38%), Organic Red Cabbage (2.38%), Grass Fed Ox Rib (1.92%), Organic Pumpkin Seeds (1.18%), Organic Mooli (0.47%), Organic Cold Pressed Flaxseed Oil (0.35%), Organic Ginger (0.35%), Organic Turmeric (0.35%), Cod Liver Oil (0.27%), Himalayan Pink Rock Salt (0.24%),Organic Spinach (0.24%), Sun-Dried Tomatoes (0.24%), Organic Wheatgrass (0.18%), Organic Thyme (0.12%), Organic Parsley (0.12%), Wild Grown Seaweed (0.12%). *total bone content 1.18%*

The house style is total disclosure. Each recipe prints a percentage beside every entry, down to the 0.02% of seaweed on the Chicken Casserole, and each one ends with a declared total bone content. Very few raw labels go that far, and it makes these recipes genuinely comparable with one another.

Organs are the constant. Grass fed ox heart, liver and spleen run through the range whatever the headline animal is, joined by ox kidney in the trout recipe and ox rib wherever a little more bone is wanted. Organs hold much of an animal's micronutrition, so a share this size is doing real work. It also means beef is in every recipe here, whichever name is on the front.

Micronutrition here comes from food, with no premix involved. Cod liver oil appears in several recipes for vitamin D and omega 3 fats, and cold pressed flaxseed and hempseed oils cover the plant side. Wild grown seaweed at trace level supplies iodine, and Himalayan pink rock salt sits at around a quarter of a percent. No vitamin and mineral panel is printed anywhere in the range, which reads as a whole food position rather than an oversight.

Bone content is declared recipe by recipe and the spread is wide, from 1.09% in the Happy Pork to 14% in the Rare Bit of Rabbit with most sitting comfortably between. Bone is where a raw recipe's calcium comes from, so the lower-bone recipes lean more on what the organs and whole ingredients bring. The rabbit is the one to introduce gradually if your dog has not met a bony grind before.

Carbohydrate is barely present. Across the range it estimates at anywhere from nothing up to 7.6% of dry matter. Only a couple of recipes carry a starchy ingredient at all, so most of that figure is arithmetic sweeping up what the analysis does not measure. These are meat and vegetable bowls in the literal sense.

Organic wheatgrass appears on most of the labels and deserves a word, because the name misleads. It is the young leaf of the wheat plant rather than the grain, and it carries no wheat gluten, so a wheat sensitive dog has no reason to skip these recipes.

The vegetable share is small and organic: red cabbage, courgette and mooli in most recipes, with purple sweet potato in a couple. A herb tail of ginger, turmeric, parsley, thyme and spinach follows at fractions of a percent. Organic pumpkin seeds add a little fat and mineral content on top.

Grass fed lamb at 61.97% with ox heart at 16.47% makes this the red meat recipe, and turmeric, thyme and sun-dried tomatoes give it a character of its own. It is far and away the richest of the eight, fat converting to 51.3% of dry matter at 240 kcal per 100g. Portions are the smallest in the eight, and a gradual introduction suits most dogs.

Per kilo, the Salmon Brunch is £6.50 and the Chicken Casserole and the Herby Turkey are both £6.90. The Unroasted Beef is £7.10, the Happy Pork and the Yorkshire Rainbow Trout are both £7.20, the Lamb Cool Pot is £7.60 and the Rare Bit of Rabbit is £9.70.

Packs are 1kg, with 500g packs offered on several recipes. Nutriwolds sets a minimum order across the range, 8 of the 1kg packs or 16 of the 500g packs, mixed however you like.

Feeding a 15kg adult dog in moderate condition means about 840 kcal a day under the standard maintenance estimate (110 × bodyweight^0.75). That runs from £2.66 a day on the Lamb Cool Pot to £6.91 on the Rare Bit of Rabbit, with the other six landing between £3.10 and £4.74. Energy density does most of that work, since the richest recipes feed in the smallest portions.