Brand comparison
Natures Menu vs Nutriment
A side-by-side of Natures Menu and Nutriment on the factors we score. Figures come from our current catalogue data, and each brand’s full review is linked below. We don’t show prices here.
Quick verdict
Two raw-led ranges that don't finish level. Nutriment sits in our Outstanding band. The range is rich in organ meat, from raw to gently-cooked fresh to wet, and it reads Outstanding for protein and processing and for nutritional balance. Natures Menu sits in our Excellent band. Its range covers raw nuggets and wet trays, plus freeze-dried food and a small dry line. Its raw reads Outstanding on every pillar, but the wet stews and the dry line pull the average down. It has the novel proteins and the deeper recipe catalogue. The split is a higher band against more variety.
Choose Natures Menu if…
- You want the deeper recipe catalogue: sixteen products across 66 recipes
- Novel proteins are the draw: wild boar, rabbit and duck
- A small dry line matters to you, on top of the raw, wet and freeze-dried food
Choose Nutriment if…
- You want the higher band: Outstanding with us against Natures Menu's Excellent
- You want organ-rich recipes, with beef liver, kidney, heart and green tripe
- You want a gently-cooked fresh option as well as fully raw
Key differences
- Band: Nutriment sits in our Outstanding band, Natures Menu in our Excellent band
- Format: both are raw-led with freeze-dried options; Natures Menu adds a small dry line, Nutriment adds gently-cooked fresh
- Proteins: Natures Menu leans on novel meats (wild boar, rabbit, duck); Nutriment leans on organ-rich named meats
- Range: sixteen products each, but Natures Menu runs deeper on recipes (66 to Nutriment's 35)
- Pillars: both raw lines read Outstanding on protein and processing and nutritional balance; the gap is Natures Menu's wet stews and dry line, which sit lower. Both need cold storage
Side by side
- Feeding raw or high meat
- Novel proteins
- Raw and freeze-dried
- All breed sizes
- Raw or gently cooked feeding
- Organ-rich recipes
- Fresh, wet & raw
- All life stages
- A real raw and high-meat focus in the 80/20 and 60/40 nuggets
- Less common proteins such as wild boar and rabbit
- Raw and freeze-dried food that reads Outstanding on every pillar
- Outstanding protein and processing and nutritional balance
- Organ-rich raw and gently cooked recipes
- Complete recipes for every life stage
- The dry line is small and sits in our Average band
- Raw and freeze-dried ask for cold storage and careful handling
- The wet stews read well below the raw
- No dry option at all
- Raw and fresh food need freezer space and handling
- Transparency reads Good on more than half of the raw recipes, short of Outstanding
Ingredients & nutrition
Both are raw-led, and they differ on format and emphasis. Natures Menu is built on raw nuggets (80/20 and 60/40), wet trays and freeze-dried food, with a small dry line besides. Less common proteins do the work here, wild boar, rabbit and duck among them, with modest plant additions. Nutriment covers raw and wet food plus gently-cooked fresh medallions. There is a lot of organ meat: beef liver, kidney, heart and green tripe, with salmon and hemp oils, pumpkin and blueberry in support. Moisture runs high in all three formats. As-fed protein sits around 9 to 16%. The freeze-dried food is far denser. The clearest divide is consistency. Nutriment sits in our Outstanding band, and every raw and fresh recipe reads Outstanding for protein and processing as well as for nutritional balance. Natures Menu's Excellent band average covers a raw line that matches it, wet stews that sit well below, and a dry line in our Average band.
Suitability & trade-offs
Complete recipes from each brand take in every life stage and breed size. Both also ask the same of you: freezer space, thawing and careful handling. The formats give each a distinct edge. Natures Menu's freeze-dried and dry lines travel better and are the easier options day to day, its novel proteins suit an owner rotating meats, and it runs the deeper recipe catalogue. Nutriment's gently-cooked fresh medallions are the pick if you want a cooked option in place of fully raw, and its organ-rich recipes and higher band make it the stronger food on paper. Transparency reads Good on more than half of Nutriment's raw recipes and a third of Natures Menu's wet, so neither has the label edge.
Our recommendation
On our scoring Nutriment is the stronger range, an Outstanding average against the Excellent one at Natures Menu. Make it the default if you want the higher-quality read, organ-rich recipes, or a gently-cooked alternative to fully raw. Choose Natures Menu when its own strengths matter more than that gap: the deepest recipe variety, genuinely novel proteins like wild boar and rabbit, or a freeze-dried option for travel and convenience. In short, choose Nutriment for the higher band and organ-rich or gently-cooked feeding, and Natures Menu for variety, novel proteins and freeze-dried.
Common questions
Which scores higher, Natures Menu or Nutriment?
Nutriment, comfortably. It sits in our Outstanding band and Natures Menu in our Excellent band. On protein and processing, both raw lines read Outstanding, and they do the same for nutritional balance. The gap comes from Natures Menu's wet stews and small dry line, which sit lower.
Does either sell kibble?
Mostly not, because both are raw-led. Natures Menu does run a small dry line, on top of the raw, wet and freeze-dried food. Nutriment has raw, gently-cooked fresh, wet and freeze-dried, with no kibble.
Which has novel proteins?
Natures Menu, which has wild boar, rabbit and duck. Nutriment leans on organ-rich named meats such as liver, kidney, heart and green tripe.
Which has a cooked (not raw) option?
Nutriment, with its gently-cooked fresh medallions. Natures Menu's non-raw options are freeze-dried food and a small dry line.
Do both need freezing?
Both have raw and fresh formats that need freezer space and careful handling. Natures Menu's freeze-dried line is the exception on storage.