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Natural & Delicious N&D Quinoa Wet Mini: Digestion review

Name: Natural & Delicious N&D Quinoa Wet Mini: Digestion
Brand: Natural & Delicious

55.1/100Good

WetAdult

Flavour

Three recipes for small dogs, each sorted by the one thing you are trying to manage: digestion, age, or skin and coat. Quinoa runs through all three in place of wheat or maize. The duck reaches our Excellent band and the other two settle in Good.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Small adult dogs, as every pack is portioned for them
A delicate digestion, on the hydrolysed fish protein recipe with artichoke and yeast
Older small dogs, with psyllium and carob in the senior pack
A dull coat or itchy skin, on the duck with fish oil and coconut
Owners who would rather see a seed than wheat or maize

Worth watching

Fish in every recipe, so nothing here for a dog avoiding it
Lamb, pork and herring together in the senior pack
No fibre figure on the digestion recipe, so it cannot be restated as dry matter

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

How this scores

How we score

55.1/100Good

Protein and processingAverage

Nutritional balanceGood

TransparencyExcellent

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Listed for small adults, with the senior pack covering older dogs. Pick by the job: digestion, age, or skin and coat.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Small

Main protein

Lamb

The score, in context

Skin 79.6
Senior 67.6
Digestion 55.1

Three recipes across Excellent and Good. Typical wet food: Excellent.

The spread follows the ingredients: the meatiest, simplest recipe reads best, and the one that skips its fibre figure trails.

What's in it

Lamb rack and shoulder35%
Hydrolysed fish proteinBroken into small fragments so the gut has less work to do.
Quinoa seed, extracted5%A seed, not a cereal, with fuller protein and more fibre than most starches.
Fish oil
Artichoke, fennelAimed at the gut.
Fructo-oligosaccharides, yeast extractTwo prebiotics, FOS and MOS.
Dried brewer's yeastB vitamins.
Chondroitin sulphate, glucosamineNo figures, so a small everyday extra.
Vitamins, minerals

Vitamins A, D3 and E, choline chloride, taurine, L-carnitine at 150mg, DL-methionine, and chelated zinc, manganese, iron and copper with selenised yeast, plus green tea extract, only on this recipe.

No fibre figure is declared, so there is no carbohydrate estimate and the analysis stays as fed.

Named ingredients

Lamb rack and shoulder (35%), hydrolyzed fish protein, quinoa seed extracted (5%), fish oil, artichoke, fennel, fructo-oligosaccharides, yeast extract (source of manno-oligo-saccharides), dried brewer's yeast, chondroitin sulphate, glucosamine, vitamins, minerals.

Against the range

Meat: Lamb with hydrolysed fish protein; Lamb, pork and herring on the Senior; duck on the Skin.
Fibre: Not declared; Declared on the other two.
Energy: 97 kcal per 100g; 96 on the Senior, 105 on the Skin.

The pick for a sensitive gut, with the thinnest label of the three.

Three targeted recipes for small dogs, each with extracted quinoa at 5% as the common thread and no cereal. Each also carries fructo-oligosaccharides, chondroitin and glucosamine without figures, and a line-by-line additive panel with chelated minerals and taurine.

Fish is in all three, as hydrolysed fish protein, herring or fish oil. The meat changes with the job: lamb with fish protein for digestion, lamb with pork, herring and a fibre package for seniors, and duck fillet at 55% for skin and coat.

Price and value

All three recipes come in a 140 g pack. We hold no per kilo figure for the mini range at the moment.

As a guide, put a 15kg adult dog in moderate condition at about 840 kcal a day (110 × bodyweight^0.75, the standard maintenance estimate). That dog would eat roughly 862 grams a day of the digestion recipe, 878 grams of the senior or 798 grams of the duck. All three declare their calories, so those weights come from the maker's own figures. A dog that size is far bigger than these packs are built for, and a small dog needs a fraction of it.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

97.4 kcal/100g

Protein

10.4%

Fat

3.8%

Ash

3.3%

Moisture

75%

Dry weight

Protein

41.6%

Fat

15.2%

Ash

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

48.7%

Added water

36%

Carbs

Oils

4.1%

Other

6.1%

Pricing & size