

1 price from Pets at Home
Lily's Kitchen Recovery Recipe Wet Adult Dog Food
Good points
- 50% meat
- Low starch, about 10% carbs
- One animal protein: chicken
First ingredients: Fresh Chicken (50%), Potatoes (11%), Bananas (9%), Vitamins and Minerals, Prebiotics FOS and MOS All ingredients
Label checked- Meat
- 50%
- Protein, dry weight
- 45%
- Carbs, dry weight
- ~10%
- kcal/100 g
- 97
Ingredients
Listed first: Fresh Chicken. 50% of the recipe is declared meat.
- Meat 50%
- Plants 20%
- No amount given 30%
Fresh Chicken (50%); Potatoes (11%); Bananas (9%). Vitamins and Minerals, Prebiotics FOS and MOS
Meat named animal protein
Additives
Vitamin D3 200 IU, Vitamin E 20mg Locust Bean Gum 1g
How we read this label
First ingredient: “Fresh Chicken”. It names the animal.
| On the label | We read it as | Share on the label |
|---|---|---|
| Fresh Chicken (50%) | Named meat | 50% |
| Potatoes (11%) | Vegetable, fruit or plant | 11% |
| Bananas (9%) | Vegetable, fruit or plant | 9% |
| Vitamins and Minerals | Other | Not given |
| Prebiotics FOS and MOS | Other | Not given |
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Nutrition
Protein 45% and carbs about 10%, with the water taken out.
| Nutrient | As sold | Dry weight |
|---|---|---|
| Protein | 9% | 45% |
| within the usual 38 to 48% for wet foods | ||
| Fat | 5% | 25% |
| Carbohydrate | ~2% | ~10% |
| within the usual 9 to 21% for wet foods | ||
| Fibre | 1% | 5% |
| Ash | 3% | 15% |
| 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 58
Starch scored best (16.7 of 20). How it’s made scored lowest (8 of 20).
How much meat?
21.7 / 45 points- Meat on the label17.5 / 35 points
50% declared meat, as weighed before cooking; full marks at 100%.
- Protein level4.2 / 10 points
Protein is 45% of the food with the water taken out. Nothing at 20% or less, full marks at 80%.
How much starch?
16.7 / 20 pointsEstimated carbohydrate: About 10% 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 4 ingredients. 1 is not in our ingredient database yet.
4 ingredients with nothing flagged
Chicken, minerals, tocopherols (vitamin E)
Allowed up to a legal maximum, none declared above it: vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol)
Checked against the EU Catalogue of Feed Materials.
Sources for these ingredients
- Reg (EU) No 68/2013 - EU Catalogue of Feed Materials (EUR-Lex)Chicken, minerals
- Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/1152Tocopherols (vitamin E)
- FDA Animal Health Literacy - Vitamin D toxicity in dogsVitamin D3 (cholecalciferol)
- Regulation (EU) 2017/1492 (EUR-Lex)Vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol)
1 not in our ingredient database yet
Prebiotics fos and mos
Not in our ingredient database yet, so no judgement either way.
Notes come from published sources about each ingredient, not about this food. How we decide
Prices
One shop we track sells this: Pets at Home. Checked 4 Oct 2026. Up 11% since 10 Aug.
In stock first, cheapest per kg first, excluding deliveryExcluding delivery
| Shop | Pack | Price | Per kg | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pets at Home1 x 400g · £3.59 up 11% since 10 Aug | 1 x 400g | £3.59 | £8.97/kg | Visit |
Since 10 Aug (3 readings): Pets at Home up 11%.
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| Day | Shop | Pack | Price | Per kg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 Oct 2026 | Pets at Home | 1 x 400g | £3.59 | £8.97/kg |
| 27 Sep 2026 | Pets at Home | 1 x 400g | £3.23 | £8.07/kg |
| 10 Aug 2026 | Pets at Home | 1 x 400g | £3.23 | £8.07/kg |
Your dog
Cost per day and grams for your dog
Alternatives
4 wet foods score 13 to 25 points higher at the same price or less.

- Meat
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- Carbs
- about 4% this food about 10%
- To feed
- 25% less per 1,000 kcal
+25 pointsCompare

- Meat
- 72% this food 50%
- Carbs
- about 0% this food about 10%
- To feed
- 9% less per 1,000 kcal
+19 pointsCompare

- Meat
- 75% this food 50%
- Carbs
- about 4% this food about 10%
- To feed
- 45% less per 1,000 kcal
+15 pointsCompare

- Meat
- 71% this food 50%
- Carbs
- about 8% this food about 10%
- To feed
- 13% less per 1,000 kcal
+13 pointsCompare
Carbs are a share of the dry food, with the water taken out.
Sources
Read from 1 shop, saved 4 Oct 2026.
Page we read, saved 4 Oct 2026: Pets at Home.
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