Natural & Delicious

Natural & Delicious N&D Prime Adult Mini Dry Food: Lamb & Blueberry review

Name: Natural & Delicious N&D Prime Adult Mini Dry Food: Lamb & Blueberry
Brand: Natural & Delicious

77.8/100Excellent

DryAdult

Flavour

The brand's meatiest recipe in a kibble sized for a small mouth, and both flavours reach our Excellent band. Little dogs eat little, so every mouthful counts here: protein is declared at 34% and the estimated carbohydrate stays low for a dry food.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Small breeds, with the kibble sized for a little jaw
Busy terriers whose energy needs outrun their appetite
Owners who read the meat line twice: fresh at 26%, dehydrated at 25%
Grain-free plates, with sweet potato in place of cereal
Small dogs stiffening with age, given the glucosamine and chondroitin at the end of the list

Worth watching

Chicken fat in both, so the lamb bag still brings poultry
Herring fresh, dried and as oil, and egg high up the list
Food this concentrated puts weight on a small dog quickly. Weigh the portion

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

How this scores

How we score

77.8/100Excellent

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceExcellent

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueExcellent

The details

Dog fit

Listed for small adult dogs. Scale the daily amount to your dog's weight on the scales, as a 5kg dog eats a fraction of the 15kg estimate.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Small

Main protein

Lamb

The score, in context

Lamb 77.8
Chicken 77.0

All two Excellent. Typical dry food: Good.

Nothing separates the two on quality, so choose on the animal.

What's in it

Fresh boneless lamb26%
Dehydrated lamb meat25%The entry that carries the protein through the oven.
Sweet potatoes
Dried whole eggsAbove the chicken fat in this bag.
Fresh herrings, dehydrated herrings
Chicken fat, herring oilPoultry in a lamb recipe.
Pea fibre, carrots, alfalfa, inulin, FOS, yeast extract
Dried blueberry0.5%Gives the bag its name.
Apple, pomegranate, orange, spinach, psyllium, salt, brewer's yeast0.3% psyllium
Turmeric root, glucosamine, chondroitin sulfate0.2% turmeric

The same chelated minerals, selenised yeast and amino acid additions as the chicken, with aloe vera at 1000 mg and green tea extract at 100 mg.

Chicken fat is on the list, so this lamb bag is not poultry free.

Named ingredients

Fresh boneless lamb (26%), dehydrated lamb meat (25%), sweet potatoes, dried whole eggs, fresh herrings, dehydrated herrings, chicken fat, fish oil(from herring), fiber vegetable of peas, dried carrots, dried alfalfa, inulin, fructooligosaccharides, yeast extract (source of mannan-oligosaccharides), dried blueberry (0.5%), dried apple, dried pomegranate, dried sweet orange, dried spinach, psyllium (0.3%), sodium chloride, dried brewer's yeast, turmeric root (0.2%), glucosamine, chondroitin sulfate.

Against the range

Meat: Lamb, fresh 26% and dehydrated 25%; Chicken in the other.
Ash: 8.3%; 7.8% in the chicken.
Calcium, dry matter: 1.21%; 1.43% in the chicken.
Carbohydrate, dry matter: 30.8%; 31.3% in the chicken.

The pick for a small dog that does better on red meat, as long as a little chicken fat is fine.

Both bags open with the same pair: fresh boneless meat at 26% and the dehydrated form of the same animal at 25%. Herring follows fresh and dried with herring oil, dried whole eggs sit alongside, and chicken fat appears in both. Sweet potato is the only real starch, with no cereal at all.

Protein converts to 37.4% and fat to 19.8% of dry matter in each. The additive panel is identical and thorough, every trace mineral chelated and selenium from selenised yeast. What changes is the animal, the named fruit and a few tenths of ash and calcium.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

398.1 kcal/100g

Protein

34%

Fat

18%

Fibre

2.6%

Ash

8.3%

Moisture

Dry weight

Protein

37.4%

Fat

19.8%

Fibre

2.9%

Ash

9.1%

Carbs

30.8%

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

75.4%

Carbs

19.5%

Veg

Oils

2.7%

Other

1.5%

Pricing & size