Pooch & Mutt Superfoods Wet Food: Turkey & Duck review

All five recipes come out together in our Excellent band, so no flavour here is riding on another's coat tails. The middle of the adult wet shelf sits in that band too, which tells you how well wet food does on our scoring and nothing about this range being ordinary. What lifts these packs is easy to point at: fresh meat first, a percentage beside almost every entry, and very little else in the pack. White Fish & Potato is the recipe that gives a little back. Potato and peas push its estimated carbohydrate to 26.2% of dry matter where adult wet food usually reads 15.8%, and its fish is described by the day's catch and not by name.

Ingredients, as declared: Fresh Turkey (42 %), Fresh Duck (18 %), Peas (6.3 %), Carrots (3 %), Yucca Extract (0.06 %), Chicory Root Extract (as a source of prebiotic FOS, 0.05 %).

Fresh meat leads every pack and the figure is there in brackets. Chicken at 43% with beef at 18.5%, chicken alone at 60%, turkey and chicken at 31.5% each, turkey at 42% with duck at 18%, and white fish at 64%. Protein converts to between 34.6% and 43.5% of dry matter depending on which pack you pick up. For a food fed wet those are properly meat led numbers.

The plant side is deliberately thin. Carrots, broccoli, peas and pumpkin turn up at single figure percentages, as do potato and a little fruit. None of the five labels carries a cereal, so the range is grain free throughout. Carbohydrate converts to between 4.4% and 26.2% of dry matter, with only the fish pack sitting above the 15.8% typical of adult wet food.

Chicory root extract closes every list as a source of FOS, a prebiotic fibre that the useful gut bacteria feed on. Yucca extract sits beside it on four of the packs, a plant extract with a long reputation for making the garden less pungent. Both come in at fractions of a percent, so read them as a considered finish and not as the reason to buy.

White Fish & Potato is the odd one out in more ways than the species question. Dried seaweed joins it as a natural source of minerals including iodine, and with fat at 2.0% it is far leaner than the meat packs. That is welcome for a dog watching their waistline and something to plan around for a dog who needs feeding up.

Fresh turkey at 42% with duck at 18%, the only place duck appears in the range. On the plant side it is the sparest list of all, peas at 6.3% and carrots at 3%. With moisture out of the picture it holds more protein than any of the five at 43.5% of dry matter, and much the least carbohydrate at 4.4%.

£6.64 a kilo across all five recipes, in a single 375g size that is also sold by the twelve.

As a guide, feeding a 15kg adult dog in moderate condition costs between £5.08 and £8.10 a day depending on the recipe, assuming about 840 kcal a day (110 × bodyweight^0.75, the standard maintenance estimate). That comes to between 766 and 1219 grams a day, the larger figure belonging to the leaner fish pack.