Naked Dog

Naked Dog Cold Pressed: Duck & Venison review

Name: Naked Dog Cold Pressed: Duck & Venison
Brand: Naked Dog

58/100Good

Cold pressedPuppyAdult

Flavour

Naked Dog's freezer thinking, put in a bag. The pellets are pressed at low temperature, so they crumble in water where expanded kibble swells. The Beef and the Surf & Turf reach our Excellent band, and the other three sit in Good.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Dogs that inhale their dinner. The pellets break apart when wet
Cereal-free homes, on a sweet potato and potato base
Older and heavy-framed dogs, with glucosamine, chondroitin and mussel on every label
A puppy and a pensioner fed from one bag
Dogs off land meat entirely: the Salmon & Trout names none

Worth watching

Green mussel throughout, for a household keeping shellfish out
Unnamed poultry fat on the Chicken
Potato protein mid list on the Beef and the Surf & Turf

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

How this scores

How we score

58/100Good

Protein and processingAverage

Nutritional balanceAverage

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Listed for puppies, adults and seniors of every size. The label's guide puts a 15kg dog at 190 grams a day; feed to condition from there.

Food type

Cold pressed

Life stage

Puppy, Adult, Senior

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Duck

The score, in context

Beef 71.6
Surf 70.0
Salmon 65.3
Chicken 62.4
Duck 58.0

Five recipes across Excellent and Good. Typical dry food: Good.

Named meat leads lift all five, and a potato base still carrying plenty of the load keeps three of them level with the category's middle.

What's in it

Ground duck24.5%
Sweet potato, potato
Venison8%Two land animals few dogs have met.
Linseed oil
Hydrolysed vegetablesThe hydrolysed entry here is plant, not meat.
Dried apples, dried kale, chicory fibre, seaweed, spirulinaChicory brings inulin as a prebiotic.
Green lipped mussel, mannan-oligosaccharidesShellfish, worth registering in a strict avoidance household.
Glucosamine, chondroitin sulphatePresent, but no dose printed.

No separate additives panel is published; the joint and gut ingredients appear in the list itself.

Named ingredients

Ground Duck (24.5%), sweet potato, potato, Venison (8%), linseed oil, hydrolysed vegetables, dried apples, dried kale, chicory fibre, seaweed, spirulina, green lipped mussel, manan-oligosacharides, glucosomise, chondroitin sulphate

Against the range

Meat: Duck 24.5%, venison 8%; One or two animals elsewhere
Hydrolysed entry: Vegetables; Beef, chicken or salmon on the others
Energy: 350 kcal per 100g; Second densest of the five

The pairing for a dog that needs animals it is unlikely to have met before.

Five recipes, each led by a named ground meat or fish, from 16% white fish on the Surf & Turf to 27% on the Beef and the Chicken. Several add hydrolysed material, protein broken into smaller fragments, alongside the ground meat. Sweet potato and potato build the base in all five, with no wheat, maize or rice, and carbohydrate converts to between 42.3% and 46.8% of dry matter.

Every label closes the same way: green mussel, glucosamine, chondroitin sulphate and mannan-oligosaccharides, none with a dose. Fat is 13.0% on all five. Moisture is never printed, so the dry-matter figures rest on an assumed 8%.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

349.5 kcal/100g

Protein

25%

Fat

13%

Fibre

Ash

11%

Dry weight

Protein

27.2%

Fat

14.1%

Fibre

3.3%

Ash

12%

Carbs

43.4%

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

33.1%

Carbs

47.8%

Veg

12.6%

Oils

6.1%

Other

0.4%

Pricing & size