Yumwoof Perfect Superfood: Wild Caught Fish review

The turkey recipe settles in our Outstanding band and the other two land just behind it in Excellent, so there is little to separate them on our reading. Protein and processing reads Outstanding on every recipe, which is what an 85% fresh meat inclusion earns. The turkey reads Outstanding for transparency and value, and the other two read Excellent.

There is no air dried cohort to measure this against, so the reading stands on the labels themselves.

Ingredients, as declared: 85% wild caught fish (fresh whole sardine, fresh whole anchovy), tapioca, beet fiber, broccoli flower, blueberries, organic coconut oil, coriander, cumin, turmeric, rose hip.

Air drying is what lets an 85% meat headline mean something. The water leaves gently, without the heat of extrusion, so what stays in the piece is mostly the animal it started as. The finished food still holds 22.0% moisture, and the texture stays softer and more chewable than a hard biscuit.

The meat is itemised, entry by entry. The turkey recipe lists meat, neck, liver, heart, gizzard and cartilage. The Meat Lovers names turkey, pork, duck and whole fish along with the livers, hearts and gizzards of both birds, and the fish recipe keeps to whole sardine and whole anchovy. Small whole fish and cartilage bring bone and connective tissue in with the flesh, which matters more here than it would elsewhere, because there is no mineral premix standing behind them.

That absent premix is the range's boldest decision and the one to understand properly. The maker states plainly that no synthetic vitamins or minerals are added, and that nutrient rich organ meats provide the essentials in their natural form. The organ inclusion on these labels does back the argument up. It also means there is no dosed panel to hold up against another bag, so this range asks a little more trust of an owner than most do.

Tapioca, the starch, is extracted from cassava root, and its work here is honest: it binds the piece and carries energy without contributing a great deal else. Beet fibre and brewer's yeast follow on two of the three recipes. The brewer's yeast is the genuinely useful one, heavy in B vitamins and complete on the amino acid side.

The tail of each list is short but purposeful. Carrots, apples, blueberries and broccoli appear in fractions, rose hip closes all three labels, and cumin, thyme, coriander and turmeric are there for aroma as much as anything. Energy runs between 415 and 436 kcal per 100g, so portions look small in the bowl and a kitchen scale is more use than a scoop for the first week.

Whole sardine and whole anchovy carry the entire 85%, with not one land animal on the label. For a dog steering away from meat, this is the simplest route in the range. Small oily fish eaten whole bring their own bone and oil along with them, and this recipe declares the highest fat of the three at 15.0% and the most energy at 436 kcal per 100g. Broccoli flower and blueberries stand in for the carrots and brewer's yeast the other two use.

The Low Fat Turkey and the Wild Caught Fish are £23.02 a kilo, and the Meat Lovers is £21.38 a kilo. All three come in a 3.2kg bag, a 0.8kg box and a 0.4kg bag.

As a guide, a 15kg adult dog in moderate condition eats around 193 to 202 grams a day, working from about 840 kcal a day (110 × bodyweight^0.75, the standard maintenance estimate). A day comes to between £4.32 and £4.64, according to which recipe you feed.