Natural Dog Food Company

Natural Dog Food Company Sensitive: Scottish Salmon review

Name: Natural Dog Food Company Sensitive: Scottish Salmon
Brand: Natural Dog Food Company

72.3/100Excellent

DryAdult

Flavour

A sensitive range built on one animal at 65% of the bag, with a short supporting cast behind it. Every recipe prints its meat split, fresh, dried, fat and stock each with a figure. Three of the four reach our Excellent band and the lamb sits just behind in Good.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Dogs on a narrowed diet, one named animal per bag
Owners who read the meat split line by line
Grain-free homes: sweet potato and beans do the starch work
Unsettled digestion, with beet pulp and a dosed prebiotic pair
Owners who like British and Scottish sourcing named

Worth watching

Omega 3 supplement with no source, so none of the four suits a strict elimination on the label alone
Minerals listed as one word with no doses
Beans carry part of the starch, worth knowing if legumes have caused trouble

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

How this scores

How we score

72.3/100Excellent

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceGood

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueExcellent

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults of every size. The table gives 190 grams a day for a 10 to 20kg dog on all four; let your dog's shape decide the final scoop.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Salmon

The score, in context

British Free-Range Chicken 73.1
Scottish Salmon 72.3
English Country Duck 70.0
British Grass-Fed Lamb 69.3

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

Meat shares and low carbohydrate count in their favour, and two vague entries are what hold them back; the lamb's Good is a closer thing than it looks.

What's in it

Freshly prepared Scottish salmon35%Goes into the oven mostly as water.
Dried salmon23%Does the heavy lifting on protein.
Salmon oil4%Marine omega 3 from the same fish.
Salmon stock3%
Sweet potato, beansThe starch, with no cereal. Beans are legumes.
Beet pulpFibre.
Dill, spinach, fennel, asparagus, tomatoeach equivalent to 4% freshNamed and quantified, not hidden under an umbrella.
Omega 3 supplementNo source given; marine oils are the usual choice.
MineralsOne word, no doses.
Fructooligosaccharides, mannanoligosaccharides, olive extract175mg/kg, 50mg/kg, 0.01%A small prebiotic pair and the antioxidant.

No additive panel is printed. The brand says the Sensitive range uses natural sources wherever possible and chelated minerals.

Every named animal entry is salmon; only the omega 3 supplement goes unnamed.

Named ingredients

65% Fish (Freshly Prepared Scottish Salmon (35%), Dried Salmon (23%), Salmon Oil (4%), Salmon Stock (3%)), Sweet Potato, Beans, Beet Pulp, Fruits Vegetables & Herbs (Dill, Spinach, Fennel, Asparagus, Tomato)*, Omega 3 Supplement, Minerals, Fructooligosaccharides (175mg/kg) Mannanoligosaccharides (50mg/kg), Olive Extract (0.01%) *each equivalent to 4% fresh ingredients

Against the range

Carbohydrate, dry matter: 35.7%; Lowest of the four.
Protein, as fed: 32.0%; Level with the chicken.
Dried meat: 23%; 22% on the others.

The leanest on starch, and a single fish all the way down the named entries.

All four recipes follow one plan with the animal swapped. One animal supplies 65% of the bag, split into 35% freshly prepared meat, a dried share of 22% or 23%, then fat and stock or gravy, each with its own figure. Sweet potato and beans do the binding, beet pulp adds fibre, and each recipe names its own five plants.

Carbohydrate lands between 35.7% and 37.9% of dry matter, low for a kibble. The omega 3 supplement names no source and the minerals carry no doses on any of the four.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

353.2 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

32%

Fat

15%

Fibre

2.5%

Ash

Moisture

Dry weight

Protein

35.2%

Fat

16.5%

Fibre

2.7%

Ash

9.9%

Carbs

35.7%

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.

Carbs

26.5%

Veg

2.1%

Oils

65%

Other

6.4%

Pricing & size