Butternut Box

Butternut Box: Salmon to Love review

Name: Butternut Box: Salmon to Love
Brand: Butternut Box

79.7/100Excellent

FreshPuppyAdult

Flavour

Gently cooked meals, portioned to the dog and delivered frozen, with ten of the eleven in our Outstanding band and Salmon to Love just behind in Excellent. What marks the range out is how the meat is written: heart and liver named inside it on most labels. The mineral panel is almost all chelates.

What Butternut Box costs

One to two pouches per day, dependent on the size of the dog. Some recipes are subject to surcharges.

Code OFFTHELEASH50 is applied for you.

Plan	Dog	A day
125g	Toy	£1.65 a day
200g	Small	£2.05 a day
300g	Small to medium	£2.50 a day
400g	Medium	£2.75 a day
500g	Medium to large	£3.00 a day
600g	Large	£3.29 a day
800g (2x400g)	Large	£4.60 a day
1kg (2x500g)	Extra large	£5.39 a day
1.2kg (2x600g)	Extra large	£6.16 a day

Butternut Box’s own plan picks the size for your dog’s weight and age.

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Butternut Box prices as of 24 September 2026.

Our view

Likely to suit

Dogs kept to one protein. Several recipes hold the meat share to a single named animal
Owners who want organ meat included and spelled out
Fussy eaters. Gently cooked food holds far more aroma than anything extruded at high heat
A home with some freezer room. The pouches arrive frozen and thaw in the fridge overnight
Puppies and older dogs as much as adults. Every recipe is listed for all three
Dogs that do better with some grain. Rice, pearl barley and quinoa each turn up in the range

Worth watching

Grain in three recipes, while the other eight leave it off
Chelates of protein hydrolysates on every panel. A strict elimination trial cannot treat any recipe as truly single-species
Salmon oil in the Duo of Duck and Chicken, so that one is not fish free
No calcium figure on any label. Ask Butternut before a large-breed puppy grows on it

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

How this scores

How we score

79.7/100Excellent

Protein and processingOutstanding

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyExcellent

ValueExcellent

The details

Dog fit

Listed for puppies, adults and seniors of every size. The energy figures are our estimates, so start from the plan's portions and adjust by your dog's waistline.

Food type

Fresh

Life stage

Puppy, Adult, Senior

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Fish

The score, in context

Beef It Up 91.9
Wham Bam Lamb 91.2
Gobble Gobble Turkey 91.1
Pork This Way 91.1
Chicken You Out 90.9
Pork of the Town 87.1
Duo of Duck 86.1
Tuck in Chicken 85.1
Duo of Chicken 83.9
You've Got Game 82.4
Salmon to Love 79.7

11 recipes across Outstanding and Excellent. Typical fresh food: Outstanding.

Salmon to Love sits a small step behind the other ten, and Beef It Up leads the range.

What's in it

Sustainably sourced fish: min. 26% salmon, 26% white fish60%No land animal anywhere on the label.
Carrots, potatoes, green beans
Split red lentils, whole red lentils
Kale, cauliflower, broccoli
Brewer's yeast, minerals
Milled chickpeasOnly on this recipe.
Sunflower oil
Dried dill, dried rosemary

Vitamin A and E, iron, zinc and manganese as chelates of protein hydrolysates, copper as an amino acid chelate.

No calcium figure on the label. For a large-breed puppy, ask Butternut for it.

Named ingredients

Sustainably Sourced Fish (60% (Min. 26% Salmon, 26% White Fish)), Carrots, Potatoes, Green Beans, Split Red Lentils, Whole Red Lentils, Kale, Cauliflower, Broccoli, Brewer's Yeast, Milled Chickpeas, Minerals, Sunflower Oil, Dried Dill, Dried Rosemary.

Against the range

Meat: Min. 26% salmon, 26% white fish; Every other recipe has a land animal.
Fat, dry matter: 30.8%; Among the richer meals.
Plants: Potatoes, kale, milled chickpeas; Not on the other labels.
Band: Excellent; Outstanding on the other ten.

The pick for a dog that has to stay off land meats, a small step behind the rest on our scoring.

Ten recipes declare a 60% meat share and the Game 50%, every animal named to species, with no unnamed meat or fat on any label. Where two species share a bowl, each gets a minimum percentage. Carrot leads the plant side on nearly every recipe, with red lentils, split and whole, giving most of them body.

Three carry a grain: wholegrain rice in the Duo of Chicken with Salmon, pearl barley and quinoa in Pork of the Town and Tuck in Chicken. Moisture runs from 69.0% to 74.0%. In dry matter, protein spans 35.5% to 46.4% and fat 13.5% to 33.3%.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

121.5 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

11%

Fat

Fibre

0.5%

Ash

2.2%

Moisture

74%

Dry weight

Protein

42.3%

Fat

30.8%

Fibre

1.9%

Ash

8.5%

Carbs

16.5%

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

41.1%

Added water

Carbs

32.5%

Veg

17.1%

Other

0.3%

Pricing & size

Price per kilo: £6.88 (RRP)
Pack: 125g, 200g, 300g, 400g, 500g, 600g, 800g (2x400g), 1kg (2x500g) and 1.2kg (2x600g) plans
A 15kg dog eats (our estimate): 360 to 440 g a day, 400 in the middle
Cost per day, 15kg dog: £2.75

Budget end of the market for a gently cooked fresh food, and strong value for what is in the recipe.

Ingredients and nutrition are taken from manufacturer data. Retailer pricing is not yet live for this food.