Sneyd's Wonderdog Wonderdog Grain Free Lamb & Potato Wet review

This tray finishes Excellent on plain construction, with no flourishes: one named meat at a declared 60%, a plant side of three recognisable ingredients, and protein converting to 42.0% of dry matter. The wet shelf is a strong field whose middle occupies the same band, so holding this position is a real result rather than a formality. Transparency and nutritional balance both read Outstanding here, with protein and processing and value both at Excellent.

Ingredients, as declared: Lamb (60%), Dried Potato, Dried Peas, Sunflower Oil, Dried Carrot, Salmon Oil (0.3%), Tomato Pomace, Dried Kelp, Dried Basil, Yucca Extract (0.005%).

Lamb opens the recipe at 60% with its percentage in print, and apart from the salmon oil nothing else in the tray comes from an animal. Lamb is highly palatable and easy on the gut. That is why it appears so often where poultry has caused trouble, and it is a richer, redder meat than chicken for dogs who find poultry recipes dull.

Dried potato and dried peas share the starch duty. Whole peas bring antioxidants, fibre and a set of vitamins, with a little plant protein on top. Carbohydrate is estimated at 16.0% of dry matter, level with the 15.8% typical for adult wet food.

Sunflower oil is the main added fat, a light oil rich in vitamin E, with salmon oil at 0.3% supplying the omega-3 element. Fat converts to 26.0% of dry matter, a middling level for a wet recipe, and the tray carries 119 kcal per 100g against the 97 typical for adult wet food.

After that the label turns to small stuff: dried carrot, tomato pomace, dried kelp, dried basil and yucca extract at 0.005%. Carrot is a genuine source of beta-carotene and soluble fibre, kelp brings iodine, and yucca is the odour trick a lot of wet recipes lean on. These are trace amounts, and none of them changes the shape of the meal.

The declared additives are short: vitamins A, D3 and E with doses printed, then zinc, iron and manganese. There is no copper on this label. That is unusual on a complete wet food, and if you track your dog's copper intake it is one to raise with the maker. Ash converts to 12.0% of dry matter, which is ordinary for the category.

£7.57 a kilo. The tray is 395g, sold on its own and in multipacks of 6, 12 and 18.

Energy first: a 15kg adult dog in moderate condition wants about 840 kcal a day (110 × bodyweight^0.75, the standard maintenance estimate). That works out at roughly 706 grams of this food and about £5.34 a day. The label's own guide for an 11 to 20 kg dog spans 395 to 790 grams.