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

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

88.3/100Outstanding

WetAdult

Flavour

Meat-first wet food sized for a small dog in a 140 g pack. What marks it out is how the meat is written, down to the cut: lamb leg in one recipe, boar shoulder and shank in the other. Both reach our Outstanding band, a step clear of the typical wet food, with the lamb slightly ahead.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Small adult dogs. One pack is sized for a single sitting
Meat-led eaters, with lamb leg at 50% or boar shoulder at 45%
Owners who want the cut named, not just the animal
Grain-free homes; sweet potato carries what little starch there is
Older small dogs, with chondroitin and glucosamine in the everyday bowl

Worth watching

Herring and fish oil on both, so neither suits a dog kept off fish
Boiled chicken eggs in each, if chicken is out altogether
Animal fat with no species, which falls short for a strict elimination plan

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

How this scores

How we score

88.3/100Outstanding

Protein and processingOutstanding

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueOutstanding

The details

Dog fit

Listed for small adult dogs. Before an exclusion diet, check the herring, egg and unnamed animal fat against your dog's list.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Small

Main protein

Lamb

The score, in context

Lamb 88.3
Wild Boar 86.3

All two Outstanding. Typical wet food: Excellent.

Candour carries both recipes: the cut is named, the calories are declared and every additive is dosed.

What's in it

Lamb leg50%Named down to the cut.
HerringMarine protein with the oils of an oily fish. Rules the food out for a fish-free dog.
Sweet potatoThe only real starch.
Boiled chicken eggsCompact, digestible protein, and the reason chicken shows on the allergen reading.
Blueberry4%A flourish.
Fish oil
Animal fatNo species given, which a strict elimination plan needs.
Fructo-oligosaccharides
Chondroitin sulphate, glucosamineNo figures. A friendly extra under any joint plan your vet has set.

Every line dosed: taurine at 500mg, L-carnitine at 50mg and chelated zinc, manganese, iron and copper, the more readily absorbed form.

Named ingredients

Lamb leg (50%), herring, sweet potato, boiled chicken eggs, blueberry (4%), fish oil, animal fat, fructo-oligosaccharides, chondroitin sulphate, glucosamine, vitamins, minerals.

Against the range

Meat: Lamb leg at 50%; Boar shoulder 45% plus shank
Fat, dry matter: 28.0%; 20.0% in the wild boar
Carbohydrate, dry matter: 13.2%; 21.6% in the wild boar
Energy: 116 kcal per 100g; 109.5 in the wild boar

The richer of the pair, with the least starch, and our top scorer of the two.

Both labels open with a named cut and a percentage, then herring, sweet potato and boiled chicken eggs in the same order. Sweet potato is the only real starch, so carbohydrate stays at 13.2% and 21.6% of dry matter. Each recipe has one fruit at 4%, and both close on chondroitin and glucosamine without figures. The animal fat names no species. Energy is declared on both, and the additive panel is identical and fully dosed.

Price and value

Both recipes come in a 140 g pack. There is no per kilo figure against this range with us just now.

Take 840 kcal a day for a 15kg adult dog in moderate condition (110 × bodyweight^0.75, the standard maintenance estimate). That works out at roughly 722 grams a day on the lamb and 767 grams on the wild boar. Both labels declare their energy, so those weights come from the maker's own figures. A dog that size is well outside what these packs are meant for, and a small dog will get through a fraction of it.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

116.4 kcal/100g

Protein

11.5%

Fat

Fibre

0.8%

Ash

2.4%

Moisture

75%

Dry weight

Protein

46%

Fat

28%

Fibre

3.2%

Ash

9.6%

Carbs

13.2%

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

61.3%

Added water

27.6%

Carbs

Oils

1.4%

Other

4.7%

Pricing & size