Almo Nature

Almo Nature Holistic Adult Small: Salmon review

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

54.7/100Good

DryAdult

Flavour

The brand's adult recipe shrunk to a little kibble and a 2kg bag for small mouths. One variety leads with chicken and the other with salmon, each with a second animal behind it. The salmon sits in our Good band and the chicken just under it in Average.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Small breed adults, with kibble and bag sized to match
Dogs with a firm preference between chicken and salmon
Prebiotic support in a small-breed food, from MOS and chicory inulin
Toy dogs working through a bag slowly, as a 2kg bag stays fresher than a half-used sack

Worth watching

Chicken in both recipes, so neither suits a dog avoiding it
A second species behind the headline one, a poor fit for single-protein elimination feeding
Corn and rice in both, for a grain-avoiding household

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

How this scores

How we score

54.7/100Good

Protein and processingAverage

Nutritional balanceGood

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Sold for small adult dogs. If chicken is the problem, neither bag is the answer, as the salmon recipe carries dried chicken and chicken fat too.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Small

Main protein

Salmon

The score, in context

Salmon 54.7
Almo Nature Holistic Adult Small 48.5

Two recipes across Good and Average. Typical dry food: Good.

Modest but honest: named animals with printed percentages and a dosed panel, without the meat density that would push either higher.

What's in it

Fresh salmon26%Fronts the recipe, though mostly water before the oven.
Corn, rice, brown rice flour
Dried tuna10%
Dried chicken, chicken fat9.5%Chicken in a fish recipe.
Beet pulp, yeast, minerals
Mannanoligosaccharides, chicory inulinMOS 0.1%Prebiotics.
A source of phosphorus0.1%
Yucca0.01%

Dosed top to bottom, with copper and zinc partly as chelates beside the standard salts, and L-carnitine at 100 mg/kg.

Dried chicken and chicken fat are on the list, so this is not a fish-only recipe.

Named ingredients

Fresh salmon 26%, corn, rice, brown rice flour, dried tuna 10%, dried chicken 9.5%, chicken fat, beet pulp, yeast, minerals, mannanoligosaccharides 0.1%, chicory inulin, a source of phosphorus 0.1%, yucca 0.01%

Against the range

Lead animal: Fresh salmon 26%; Chicken 32.7% on the other.
Other animals on the label: Dried tuna 10%, dried chicken 9.5%; Dried beef 6.7%.
Protein, dry matter: 29.7%; 28.6% on the chicken.

The stronger of the pair, for a dog that enjoys fish but need not avoid everything else.

Both recipes follow one blueprint: a named animal first at a printed percentage, a second animal protein in support, then corn and rice to bind the kibble. Fresh meat and fish lose most of their water in the oven, so the dried entries carry more of the finished protein than their positions suggest. Beet pulp gives fibre, MOS and chicory inulin act as prebiotics, and yucca at 0.01% closes each list. Chicken, as meat or as fat, is in both.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

360.2 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

27%

Fat

15%

Fibre

2.5%

Ash

Moisture

Dry weight

Protein

29.7%

Fat

16.5%

Fibre

2.7%

Ash

7.7%

Carbs

43.4%

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

45.5%

Carbs

48.6%

Veg

0.6%

Oils

Other

2.3%

Pricing & size