Almo Nature

Almo Nature Holistic Adult Small review

Name: Almo Nature Almo Nature Holistic Adult Small
Brand: Almo Nature

48.5/100Average

DryAdult

Flavour

Almo Nature Holistic Adult Small shrinks the brand's adult recipe down to a kibble and a bag built for little mouths. Both varieties put a named animal first, chicken in one and salmon in the other, backed by a second animal protein, with maize and rice doing the binding. Prebiotics and a fully dosed additive panel close out the label. The pair finish a band apart, the salmon in our Good band and the chicken just under it in Average.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Somewhere in this pair there should be a flavour your small dog will vote for.

Small breed adults, with a little kibble and 2kg bags sized to match
Dogs with a firm preference, since one variety leads with chicken and the other with salmon
Owners who want prebiotic support in a small-breed food, as MOS and chicory inulin appear in both recipes
Toy dogs working through a bag slowly, because the 2kg size stays fresher than a half-used bulk sack

Worth watching

Give the ingredient lists a glance before you pick a side.

Chicken appears in both recipes, as the headline meat in one and as dried chicken and chicken fat in the salmon variety, so neither works for a dog avoiding it
Each variety carries a second animal species behind the headline one, which makes the pair a poor fit for single-protein elimination feeding
Maize and rice feature in both, worth knowing for a grain-avoiding household

Written by our editorial team. Independent guidance, not veterinary advice.

How this scores

How we score

48.5/100Average

Protein and processingAverage

Nutritional balanceAverage

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueAverage

The Details

Dog fit

Somewhere in this pair there should be a flavour your small dog will vote for. Give the ingredient lists a glance before you pick a side.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

The salmon lands in our Good band, level with the typical adult dry food, and the chicken sits one step below it in Average. Modest but honest is the theme: named animals with printed percentages, a moderate carbohydrate load and a dosed additive panel, without the meat density that pushes a food higher still.

What's in it

Ingredients, as declared: Chicken 32.7% (fresh 26%, dried 6.7%), corn, rice, dried beef 6.7%, chicken fat, beet pulp, yeast, minerals, mannanoligosaccharides 0.1%, chicory inulin, a source of phosphorus 0.1%, yucca 0.01%

Named ingredients

Chicken 32.7% (fresh 26%, dried 6.7%), corn, rice, dried beef 6.7%, chicken fat, beet pulp, yeast, minerals, mannanoligosaccharides 0.1%, chicory inulin, a source of phosphorus 0.1%, yucca 0.01%

Nutritional additives

vitamin A (3a672a) 17500 IU/kg, vitamin D3 (3a671) 750 IU/kg, vitamin E (3a700) 300 mg/kg, vitamin B1 (3a821) 12 mg/kg, vitamin B2 14 mg/kg, vitamin B6 (3a831) 12 mg/kg, vitamin B12 0,15 mg/kg, vitamin K3 (3a711) 1 mg/kg, folic acid (3a316) 1 mg/kg, calcium D-pantothenate (3a841) 20 mg/kg, biotin (3a880) 0.5 mg/kg, niacin (3a314) 25 mg/kg, choline chloride (3a890) 2030 mg/kg, iodine 1.07 mg/kg (3b203 1.64 mg/kg), copper 4.78 mg/kg (copper sulphate pentahydrate 15.96 mg/kg copper chelate of amino acids hydrate 16.87 mg/kg), Manganese 6.71 mg/kg (manganese sulphate monohydrate (3b503) 20,67 mg/kg), zinc 52.5 mg/kg (zinc sulphate monohydrate (3b605) 125.74 mg/kg , zinc chelate of hydrolysed proteins (3b612) 151.37 mg/kg), selane 0.03 mg/kg ( organic selane (3b8.10) 11.38 mg/kg), L- carnitine 100 mg/kg

Ingredient notes

Both recipes follow the same blueprint: a named animal out front at a printed percentage, a second animal protein in support, then maize and rice to bind the kibble. The chicken variety declares its bird at 32.7%, split into 26% fresh and 6.7% dried, with dried beef at 6.7% behind it. The salmon version opens with 26% fresh salmon backed by dried tuna at 10% and dried chicken at 9.5%.

Fresh meat and fish lose most of their water in the oven, so in each case the dried entries end up shouldering a bigger share of the finished protein than their list positions suggest. The declared analysis holds up well regardless, with protein at 26% as fed in the chicken recipe and 27% in the salmon.

Beet pulp supplies fibre, and the prebiotic pair of MOS and chicory inulin is included to encourage the gut's friendly bacteria. Yucca extract at 0.01% rounds things off, an ingredient traditionally added to take the edge off stool odour.

The additive panel is dosed from top to bottom, with chelated copper and zinc alongside the standard salts and L-carnitine at 100 mg/kg, an amino acid with a role in fat metabolism.

How this variety differs

Chicken leads this variety at 32.7%, with dried beef in support and no fish anywhere on the list. A dog kept off fish lands here naturally. At 382 kcal per 100g it is also the denser of the two kibbles.

Price and value

The chicken variety is £6.08 a kilo and the salmon £6.03, both sold in 2kg bags.

Day to day, a 15kg adult in moderate condition would need about 220 grams of the chicken recipe (£1.34) or 233 grams of the salmon (£1.41). Both figures are built on the standard maintenance estimate of 110 × bodyweight^0.75, roughly 840 kcal at that weight.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

382 kcal/100g

Protein

26%

Fat

16%

Fibre

2.5%

Ash

7.8%

Moisture

Dry weight

Protein

28.6%

Fat

17.6%

Fibre

2.7%

Ash

8.6%

Carbs

42.5%

As-fed composition

Estimated breakdown of the finished product by ingredient category, from the declared ingredient list and ingoing weights. These are estimates, not measurements.

Meat

39.4%

Carbs

49.9%

Veg

1.2%

Oils

5.5%

Other

Pricing & size