Pets at Home Complete Nutrition Puppy Meaty Selection in Gravy review

The typical wet puppy tray lands in our Excellent band, which is strong company, and this selection comes two bands under that, in our Average band. The pillar split shows where the difference lies. Nutritional balance reads Outstanding, because the dry matter conversion is respectable once the water is out of the way. Protein and processing reads Poor on a four entry list made mostly of headings, and the added sugars count against it on a food built for growth, while transparency reads Outstanding.

Ingredients, as declared: With Chicken and Rice in Gravy: Meat and Animal Derivatives (38%, including 4% Chicken), Cereals (including 1.6% Dried Rice equivalent to 4% Rice), Minerals, Various Sugars.With Turkey and Rice in Gravy: Meat and Animal Derivatives (38%, including 4% Turkey), Cereals (including 1.6% Dried Rice equivalent to 4% Rice), Minerals, Various Sugars.With Beef and Rice in Gravy: Meat and Animal Derivatives (38%, including 4% Beef), Cereals (including 1.6% Dried Rice equivalent to 4% Rice), Minerals, Various Sugars.

All three recipes follow one template, with only the named meat changing between them. Meat and animal derivatives is declared at 38%, and 4% of that is named: chicken in one tray, turkey in the next, beef in the third. The category spans a wide range of quality by law, and nothing on the pack narrows down where in that range these trays sit.

Cereals brings the starch, with 1.6% dried rice picked out and noted as equivalent to 4% rice. Rice is gentle on a young digestion, so it makes sense in a puppy tray. The wider heading still means whatever else is in there stays unnamed.

Various sugars is the one line here we would be glad to lose. Sugar goes into wet foods because dogs like it, and a puppy forming its eating habits has no need of the extra encouragement in a meal it will get twice a day.

The analysis rewards conversion. Protein at 8.0% becomes 44.4% of dry matter and fat at 5.0% becomes 27.8%. The carbohydrate estimate is 13.9% of dry matter, close to the 13.6% typical of a wet puppy food. On those figures the meat share is genuinely doing the feeding.

Energy is the practical catch. At 75 kcal per 100g against 106 typical of wet puppy food, the trays go down faster than most, which is why the feeding guide runs as high as it does for larger pups.

Calcium comes out at 1.67% of dry matter, a level toy, small and medium pups will use happily and one that sits over what large breed growth plans are usually built around. The added panel is brief for a complete wet food, listing vitamin D3 at 192 IU and vitamin E at 19mg alongside five trace elements from iron to copper.

£1.41 a kilo, sold as 6 x 400g trays.

What a pup needs changes from one month to the next as they grow. Let the chart on the box set the tray count, then adjust by how your pup is looking.