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CSJ Herbie Nuts review

Name: CSJ Herbie Nuts
Brand: CSJ

51.2/100Good

DryAdult

Traditional British kennel feeding: a wheat-based kibble with chicken meal behind it and mint, fenugreek and seaweed giving the food its name. It sits in our Good band, held there by the cereal side. Chicken liver brings the palatability, and the zinc on the mineral panel is unusually generous.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Dogs that have thrived for years on cereal-based kibble and see no reason to change
Fussier eaters. Chicken liver is one of the most tempting things in a dry food
A coat that needs a hand, with zinc at 350mg/kg as the sulphate and 300mg/kg as a chelate
A little settling in the gut from unmolassed beet pulp and yeast

Worth watching

Wheat heads the list, with chicken, beef and salmon oil behind it, so not one for an itchy or sensitive dog
Salt as its own entry, worth knowing with a heart or blood pressure history

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

How this scores

How we score

51.2/100Good

Protein and processingAverage

Nutritional balancePoor

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults of every size. The label asks 170 to 290 grams a day for a dog of 10kg to 20kg, and the waistline decides where in that range to sit.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

CSJ Herbie Nuts 51.2

All one Good. Typical dry food: Good.

A cereal-led food in a market that has moved towards meat, and the carbohydrate is what our scoring reacts to; plenty of dogs have lived long, happy lives on exactly this sort of recipe.

What's in it

WheatBinds a kibble well; also the grain that turns up most in intolerant dogs' histories.
Chicken mealDried and concentrated, so its protein survives the oven.
Maize, rice
Chicken fat, chicken liverLiver for palatability, heavy in B vitamins, vitamin A and copper.
Unmolassed beet pulpQuiet gut support.
Beef mealA second animal protein.
Wheatfeed, prairie meal, alfalfa, oatsWheatfeed is flour-milling leftovers; prairie meal is maize gluten, plant protein propping up the figure.
Salmon oilMarine omega 3.
Mint, fenugreek, yeast, seaweedThe herbs behind the name: breath, appetite and iodine.
Salt, yucca schidigeraSalt listed on its own line is honest labelling.

Vitamins A, D and E, with iron, copper, manganese and selenium, and zinc twice over, the chelate the more readily absorbed.

Named ingredients

Wheat, Chicken Meal, Maize, Chicken Fat, Chicken Liver, Rice, Unmolassed Beet Pulp, Beef Meal, Wheatfeed, Prairie Meal, Alfalfa, Oats, Salmon Oil, Mint, Fenugreek, Yeast, Seaweed, Salt, Yucca Schidigera.

Against the range

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

375 kcal/100g

Protein

20%

Fat

10%

Fibre

2.5%

Ash

Moisture

10%

Dry weight

Protein

22.2%

Fat

11.1%

Fibre

2.8%

Ash

5.6%

Carbs

58.3%

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

32.7%

Carbs

60.6%

Veg

0.3%

Oils

5.2%

Other

1.1%

Pricing & size