Lily's Kitchen Dog Burrito Bowl

There is no meat in this tin, and that is the point of it rather than an omission. A meat-free dinner is a decision the owner makes, usually for one of two reasons — a household that would rather not buy meat, or a dog that has reacted badly to every animal protein tried so far — and both are worth taking to a vet before the bowl changes.

Lily's Kitchen build it as a nutritionally complete food for adult dogs from 4 months, meaning it is designed to be the meal rather than something stirred through one. Jackfruit is the largest named ingredient at 10%, with rice, pea protein, carrots and lentils behind it, red pepper at 4% and kidney beans at 2%, plus sunflower oil, yeast, linseed oil and a long herb and botanical list running from nettles and rosehips to milk thistle and dandelion root. The analysis is protein 8.2%, fat 4.2%, crude ash 2.7%, crude fibre 3% and moisture 70%, at 106 kcal per 100g. Their serving note is simply to give it at room temperature with fresh water alongside.

• 400G tin, complete for adult dogs 4 months and over
• Jackfruit 10%, red pepper 4%, kidney beans 2%, with rice, pea protein, lentils and carrots
• Protein 8.2%, fat 4.2%, crude ash 2.7%, crude fibre 3%, moisture 70%
• 106 kcal per 100g
• Added vitamins per kg: D3 200 IU, E 30mg, A 10,000 IU, B12 75 micrograms
• Herbs and botanicals including nettles, rosehips, milk thistle and dandelion root

Before you switch to it. Feeding a dog a fully plant-based diet is a conversation to have with your own vet rather than a decision to take off a label, and that goes double for a growing dog, a pregnant one or one with anything diagnosed. Lily's Kitchen do publish the whole composition, the analysis and the added vitamins and trace elements, which is more than most tins manage. What nobody has supplied is a feeding chart, so how many tins a day a particular dog needs is not something this page can tell you. And it is not a cat food — cats are a different question entirely on this one.

Who it's for: adult dogs in households that would rather not buy meat, and owners working through proteins with a vet who have run out of animal ones to try. Also anyone who simply wants a tin whose full composition they can read.