Abstract: A wet food is formulated for administration to a pet and contains an amount of at least one of spinach or tomato effective to enhance palatability of the wet food and/or reduce sugar in the wet food. The wet food may be a chunks-in-gravy composition which may have at least one of the following formulations: (i) at least a portion of the at least one of spinach or tomato includes spinach in the gravy; (ii) at least a portion of the at least one of spinach or tomato includes tomato in the gravy, and preferably the gravy further includes free form cysteine in addition to the tomato in the gravy; and (iii) at least a portion of the at least one of spinach or tomato includes spinach and tomato both included in the chunks. The wet food may be a loaf composition which may include both spinach and tomato.

Abstract: A wet pet food is formulated to be served to a pet in a first form or in a second form, and the first and second forms of the wet pet food have the same ingredients and about the same amounts thereof relative to each other but different viscosities relative to each other. In a preferred embodiment, the first form is a ready-to-eat chunks in jelly, the second form is chunks in gravy, and heating the wet pet food changes the food from the first form into the second form. For example, the wet pet food can comprise meat chunks and further comprise a thermo-reversible hydrocolloid composition; the wet pet food can have a “chunks in jelly” form when served while having a temperature below 30° C. and can have a “chunks in gravy” form when served while having a temperature above 30° C., such as about 35° C.