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Natural & Delicious N&D Prime Puppy Mini Dry Food review

Name: Natural & Delicious N&D Prime Puppy Mini Dry Food
Brand: Natural & Delicious

77.6/100Excellent

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A grain-free chicken recipe for small-breed puppies that packs a remarkable amount into a small kibble, and it sits in our Excellent band. Chicken leads twice over, fresh and dehydrated. Energy reaches 419 kcal per 100g, so the daily amounts on the chart are genuinely small.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Small-breed puppies; the recipe and its chart are written around them
A picky little eater, as a concentrated food covers the day in fewer mouthfuls
Grain-free homes, with carbohydrate at just 24.2% of dry matter
Joint care started early, with chicken cartilage declared as the source of glucosamine and chondroitin

Worth watching

Chicken, herring, egg and fish oil all on the list, so an exclusion diet is out of reach
Calcium at 1.65% of dry matter is generous for growth, fine for a small pup and wrong for a big-framed one

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

How this scores

How we score

77.6/100Excellent

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueExcellent

The details

Dog fit

Written for small-breed puppies. Portions look startlingly small, topping out at 45g a day on the chart, so weigh them and adjust as your pup grows.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Puppy

Breed size

Small

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

N&D Prime Puppy Mini Dry Food 77.6

All one Excellent. Typical dry food: Good.

The sheer weight of animal ingredients against a very small carbohydrate share earns its place, and every additive comes with its dose printed beside it.

What's in it

Fresh boneless chicken28%
Dehydrated chicken meat27%Its water is already out, so it survives cooking most intact.
Sweet potatoesDoes the binding alone, with more fibre and vitamin A than ordinary potato.
Chicken fat, dried whole eggs
Fresh herrings, dehydrated herrings, fish oil from herringNamed fish, and a third animal source in the bowl.
Pea fibre, dried carrots, dried alfalfa
Chicken cartilagesThe declared source of glucosamine and chondroitin sulphate.
Inulin, FOS, yeast extract, psyllium0.3% for the psylliumGut support, with MOS from the yeast.
Pomegranate, apple, spinach, sweet orange, blueberries, turmeric0.5% down to 0.2%
Sodium chloride, dried brewer's yeast

Taurine, L-carnitine and choline chloride alongside the vitamins, with zinc, manganese, iron and copper as chelates and selenium as selenised yeast.

Calcium converts to 1.65% of dry matter: fine for the small breeds it is written for, too rich for a large-breed pup.

Named ingredients

Fresh boneless chicken (28%), dehydrated chicken meat (27%), sweet potatoes, chicken fat, dried whole eggs, fresh herrings, dehydrated herrings, fish oil(from herring), fiber vegetable of peas, dried carrots, dried alfalfa, chicken cartilages (source of glucosamine and chondroitin sulfate), inulin, fructooligosaccharides, yeast extract (source of mannan-oligosaccharides), dried pomegranate (0.5%), dried apple, spinach powder, psyllium (0.3%), dried sweet orange, dried blueberries, sodium chloride, dried brewer's yeast, turmeric root (0.2%).

Against the range

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

418.6 kcal/100g

Protein

36%

Fat

22%

Fibre

2.3%

Ash

8.6%

Moisture

Dry weight

Protein

39.6%

Fat

24.2%

Fibre

2.5%

Ash

9.5%

Carbs

24.2%

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

71.3%

Carbs

19.5%

Veg

0.9%

Oils

Other

1.3%

Pricing & size