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Natural & Delicious N&D Quinoa Wet Mini: Skin & Coat Duck review

Name: Natural & Delicious N&D Quinoa Wet Mini: Skin & Coat Duck
Brand: Natural & Delicious

79.6/100Excellent

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

79.6/100Excellent

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueExcellent

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

Duck

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

Duck fillet55%The only meat, and named as the protein source.
Quinoa seed, extracted5%A seed, not a cereal, with fuller protein and more fibre than most starches.
Fish oilOmega oils, and the reason this is not single species.
Coconut4%
Fructo-oligosaccharides
Chondroitin sulphate, glucosamineNo figures, so a small everyday extra.
Vitamins, minerals

Vitamins A, D3 and E, choline chloride, taurine, L-carnitine at 50mg, DL-methionine, and chelated zinc, manganese, iron and copper with selenised yeast.

Named ingredients

Duck fillet (55%), quinoa seed extracted (5%), fish oil, coconut (4%), fructo-oligosaccharides, chondroitin sulphate, glucosamine, vitamins, minerals. Protein sources: duck fillet. Carbohydrate sources: quinoa seed extracted.

Against the range

Meat: Duck fillet 55%; Lamb at 35% on the other two.
Protein, dry matter: 46.0%; Highest; 29.2% on the Senior.
Fat, dry matter: 22.0%; 15.2% and 16% on the others.
Ingredients: The shortest list; Longer on the other two.

The meatiest and clearest recipe, and the top scorer here.

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

105.2 kcal/100g

Protein

11.5%

Fat

5.5%

Fibre

0.9%

Ash

3.4%

Moisture

75%

Dry weight

Protein

46%

Fat

22%

Fibre

3.6%

Ash

13.6%

Carbs

14.8%

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

55.9%

Added water

21.6%

Carbs

Oils

5.9%

Other

11.6%

Pricing & size