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Lily's Kitchen Halloween Hocus Pocus Stew
Good points
- 60% meat
- Low starch, about 8% carbs
- No ingredient deductions
First ingredients: Chicken* (34%), Turkey* (26%), Pumpkin* (4%), Apple* (4%), Minerals… All ingredients
Label taken from the maker’s website- Meat
- 60%
- Protein, dry weight
- 51%
- Carbs, dry weight
- ~8%
- kcal/100 g
- 92
Ingredients
Listed first: Chicken. 60% of the recipe is declared meat.
- Meat 60%
- Plants 8%
- Other 0.1%
- No amount given 31.9%
Chicken* (34%), Turkey* (26%), Pumpkin* (4%), Apple* (4%), Minerals, Cinnamon* (0.1%), Goldenrod*, Nettles*, Aniseed*, Rosehips*, Marigold Flowers*, Cleavers*, Chickweed*, Alfalfa*, Milk Thistle*, Dandelion Root*, Burdock Root*, Celery Seeds*. *Natural Ingredient
Meat named animal protein
From the maker’s website, checked 28 Sep 2026.
Additives
Vitamins (per kg): Vitamin D₃ 200 IU, Vitamin E 20mg. Trace Elements (per kg): Zinc (Zinc Chelate of Glycine Hydrate) 25mg, Manganese (Manganese Chelate of Glycine Hydrate) 1.4mg, Copper (Copper (II) Chelate of Amino Acids Hydrate) 1.0mg, Iodine (Calcium Iodate Anhydrous) 0.75mg.
How we read this label
First ingredient: “Chicken*”. It names the animal.
| On the label | We read it as | Share on the label |
|---|---|---|
| Chicken* (34%) | Named meat | 34% |
| Turkey* (26%) | Named meat | 26% |
| Pumpkin* (4%) | Vegetable, fruit or plant | 4% |
| Apple* (4%) | Vegetable, fruit or plant | 4% |
| Minerals | Other | Not given |
| Cinnamon* (0.1%) | Other | 0.1% |
| Goldenrod* | Other | Not given |
| Nettles* | Vegetable, fruit or plant | Not given |
| Aniseed* | Other | Not given |
| Rosehips* | Vegetable, fruit or plant | Not given |
| Marigold Flowers* | Other | Not given |
| Cleavers* | Other | Not given |
| Chickweed* | Other | Not given |
| Alfalfa* | Vegetable, fruit or plant | Not given |
| Milk Thistle* | Other | Not given |
| Dandelion Root* | Other | Not given |
| Burdock Root* | Other | Not given |
| Celery Seeds* | Vegetable, fruit or plant | Not given |
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Nutrition
Protein 51% and carbs about 8%, with the water taken out.
| Nutrient | As sold | Dry weight |
|---|---|---|
| Protein | 10.1% | 51% |
| above the usual 38 to 48% for wet foods | ||
| Fat | 5.4% | 27% |
| Carbohydrate | ~1.5% | ~7.5% |
| below the usual 9 to 21% for wet foods | ||
| Fibre | 0.5% | 2.5% |
| Ash | 2.5% | 13% |
| Moisture | 80% | taken out |
Carbohydrate is our estimate: what is left after the other shares. The usual range is the middle half of the wet foods we rate.
Why it scores 63
Starch scored best (17.5 of 20). How it’s made scored lowest (8 of 20).
How much meat?
26.1 / 45 points- Meat on the label21 / 35 points
60% declared meat, as weighed before cooking; full marks at 100%.
- Protein level5.1 / 10 points
Protein is 50.5% of the food with the water taken out. Nothing at 20% or less, full marks at 80%.
How much starch?
17.5 / 20 pointsEstimated carbohydrate: About 7.5% carbohydrate with the water taken out (our estimate). Full marks with no carbohydrate, none at 60% or more.
How processed?
8 / 20 pointsHow it’s made: Cooked in the tin, tray or pouch: 8 of 20.
What kind of meat?
12 / 15 points- How the meat is listed12 / 12 points
The label lists the meat as fresh, which earns 100% of these points. Fresh or raw named meat earns all of them, dried 70%, meal half, hydrolysed a quarter, an unnamed category none.
- Organ meat0 / 3 points
No organ meat named.
No ingredient deductions.
Each bar is as long as the points it is worth, out of 100 in all.
Against other wet foods
What the score means
One scale for every food: meat (45 points), starch (20), how it’s made (20) and kind of meat (15), minus points for a few listed ingredients. It rates the recipe, not your dog.
75 and over is excellent, 60 to 74 good, 45 to 59 fair and under 45 weak.
How we rate foods →Ingredient notes
Nothing flagged in 24 ingredients.
24 ingredients with nothing flagged
Alfalfa, aniseed, apples, burdock root, celery, chicken, chickweed, cinnamon, cleavers, dandelion root, golden rod, marigold meal, milk thistle, minerals, nettle, pumpkin, rosehips, tocopherols (vitamin E), turkey
Allowed up to a legal maximum, none declared above it: iodine, manganese, vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol), zinc
We couldn’t read an amount we can check on the label, so no points were taken: copper
Checked against the EU Catalogue of Feed Materials and FEDIAF guidelines.
Sources for these ingredients
- Reg (EU) No 68/2013 - EU Catalogue of Feed Materials (EUR-Lex)Alfalfa, aniseed, apples, burdock root, celery, chicken, chickweed, cleavers, dandelion root, golden rod, marigold meal, minerals, nettle, pumpkin, rosehips, turkey
- FEDIAF Nutritional Guidelines for Complete and Complementary Pet Food for Cats and Dogs (2025)Alfalfa, aniseed, apples, burdock root, celery, chickweed, cleavers, dandelion root, golden rod, marigold meal, nettle, pumpkin, rosehips, manganese, zinc
- ASPCA Animal Poison ControlCinnamon
- Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/1152Tocopherols (vitamin E)
- Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2016/1095 (EUR-Lex)Zinc
- Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/1490 (EUR-Lex)Manganese
- EFSA J 2013;11(2):3100 doi:10.2903/j.efsa.2013.3100Iodine
- FDA Animal Health Literacy - Vitamin D toxicity in dogsVitamin D3 (cholecalciferol)
- Fieten 2016 Int J Mol Sci 17(2):196 doi:10.3390/ijms17020196Copper
- FSA register of feed additives (GB)Milk thistle
- Pet Poison HelplineCinnamon
- Regulation (EU) 2015/861 (EUR-Lex)Iodine
- Regulation (EU) 2017/1492 (EUR-Lex)Vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol)
- Regulation (EU) 2018/1039 (EUR-Lex)Copper
- Use of Milk Thistle in Farm and Companion Animals (PMC11961297)Milk thistle
Notes come from published sources about each ingredient, not about this food. How we decide
Prices
One shop we track sells this: Lily’s Kitchen. Checked 4 Oct 2026.
In stock first, cheapest per kg first, excluding deliveryExcluding delivery
Price unchanged since 28 Sep (2 readings, one a week).
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| Day | Shop | Pack | Price | Per kg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 Oct 2026 | Lily’s Kitchen | 400g | £3.80 | £9.50/kg |
| 4 Oct 2026 | Lily’s Kitchen | 6 x 400g | £20.45 | £8.52/kg |
| 28 Sep 2026 | Lily’s Kitchen | 400g | £3.80 | £9.50/kg |
| 28 Sep 2026 | Lily’s Kitchen | 6 x 400g | £20.45 | £8.52/kg |
Your dog
Cost per day and grams for your dog
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Carbs are a share of the dry food, with the water taken out.
Sources
Taken from the maker’s page, checked 28 Sep 2026.
From the maker’s website. The ingredients and analysis here are the maker’s current label, from their product page, checked 28 Sep 2026. Shops may still stock packs with the older recipe.
Page we read, saved 4 Oct 2026: Lily’s Kitchen (the maker).
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