Natural Dog Food Company

Natural Dog Food Company Adult: Chicken review

Name: Natural Dog Food Company Adult: Chicken
Brand: Natural Dog Food Company

60.3/100Good

DryAdult

Flavour

A short, plain-English recipe you can read in one breath. Its one big departure is open and deliberate: the brand adds no vitamin or mineral premix, saying the ingredients cover it. All three flavours finish in our Good band.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Anyone who reads labels without a glossary, with the meat broken out line by line
Any size of dog. The feeding table runs from the smallest adults to giants
Dogs that do well on brown rice and oats
Steady adults at a moderate energy level
Rotating flavours: three bags built the same way around a different animal

Worth watching

No added vitamins or minerals, so raise any particular need with your vet
Fruits, vegetables and herbs under one umbrella, unnamed
Carbohydrate at 47.2% to 51.6% of dry matter, above the 46.2% typical for adult dry food

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

How this scores

How we score

60.3/100Good

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceAverage

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults of every size, with an ordinary week rather than a working one. A hard-working dog may need more in the bowl than the table suggests.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

Lamb 60.4
Chicken 60.3
Salmon 56.9

All three Good. Typical dry food: Good.

The broken-out meat lifts all three; the plant share and a panel with nothing to verify hold them level with the typical dry food.

What's in it

Chicken44%26% freshly prepared, 12% dried, 3% fat, 3% gravy. Read the dried figure for what reaches the bowl.
Brown rice, oatsWhole grains, gentler than the refined cereals often found in this slot.
Fruits, vegetables, herbs9% combinedNo names attached, so the mix can shift between batches without the list changing.
LinseedWhere the omega 3s come from.
Sugar beetFibre.
Brewers yeast

No vitamin or mineral premix is added, a stated brand position. No mineral figures are printed to check.

Named ingredients

44% Chicken (includes 26% Freshly Prepared Chicken, 12% Dried Chicken, 3% Chicken Fat, 3% Chicken Gravy), Brown Rice, Oats, Fruits*, Vegetables*, Herbs*, Linseed, Sugar Beet, Brewers Yeast. *9% combined inclusion.

Against the range

Other animals: None; Chicken fat and gravy on the salmon; none on the lamb.
Carbohydrate, dry matter: 51.6%; The highest; 47.2% on the lamb.
Ash, as fed: 5.0%; The lightest; 7% and 8% on the others.

The simplest of the three to reason about for a dog on a narrowed diet.

One named animal takes 43% to 44% of each bag, broken out as fresh, dried, fat and gravy. Brown rice and oats sit behind it, with fruit, vegetables and herbs sharing a 9% declaration. No vitamin or mineral premix is added to any of the three.

Protein is 24.2% of dry matter and fat 12.0% as fed in all three. Carbohydrate moves between 47.2% and 51.6% of dry matter by flavour, and the energy figures are our estimates.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

343.5 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

22%

Fat

12%

Fibre

Ash

Moisture

Dry weight

Protein

24.2%

Fat

13.2%

Fibre

5.5%

Ash

5.5%

Carbs

51.6%

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

41%

Added water

Carbs

35.4%

Veg

8.6%

Other

12%

Pricing & size