Natural Greatness

Natural Greatness Ultra Premium All Age & Breed: Lamb Recipe review

Name: Natural Greatness Ultra Premium All Age & Breed: Lamb Recipe
Brand: Natural Greatness

66.3/100Good

DryPuppyAdult

Flavour

A two recipe range written to feed a whole household, puppy to senior, from one bag. The lamb builds on 24% dehydrated lamb and 11% fresh and reads Good. The Wild recipe piles three dehydrated birds together at 29% with fresh rabbit at 10%, and reaches Excellent.

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Our view

Likely to suit

A puppy and an old dog eating side by side. Both recipes cover every life stage
Dogs that do better on red meat, with the lamb recipe leading on lamb
Hard working dogs, given the Wild recipe's 33.0% protein and 19.0% fat
No cereal in the bowl
Ageing dogs, with glucosamine and chondroitin printed on both labels

Worth watching

Duck, turkey and chicken share one 29% figure in the Wild recipe, and its poultry oil names no bird
Chicken oil at 11% in the lamb recipe too, so neither bag is free of chicken
No calcium on either label. Get it from the maker before a big breed puppy grows on this

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

How this scores

How we score

66.3/100Good

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceGood

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Listed for puppies, adults and seniors, medium size. For a large breed puppy, ask Natural Greatness for the calcium figure first.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Puppy, Adult, Senior

Breed size

Medium

Main protein

Lamb

The score, in context

Wild Recipe 70.9
Lamb Recipe 66.3

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

The two sit closer than their bands suggest, with the gap opening on nutritional balance.

What's in it

Dehydrated lamb meat24%Water gone before the percentage is worked out, so this does the real work.
Fresh lamb meat11%Sheds weight in the oven, so less than the figure suggests.
Chicken oil11%Chicken in a lamb recipe.
Peas, potatoThe starch.
Lamb liver hydrolysate3%For flavour a dog wants.
Carrot, pumpkin, potato protein, yeast, beet pulpBeet pulp is the fermentable fibre.
Salmon oil, flaxseed3% for the oilThe omega 3s.
Apple, blueberry, tomato, spinach, algaeA genuine plate of plants.
MOS, FOS, yucca schidigera0.1% each for MOS and FOSPrebiotics, and yucca for stool smell.
Rosemary, parsley, glucosamine, chondroitin

Taurine at 700 mg and L-carnitine at 30 mg, with each trace mineral dosed in print as oxides and sulphates.

No calcium figure on a bag sold for growth. Ask the maker before feeding a big breed puppy.

Named ingredients

Dehydrated lamb meat (24%), Fresh lamb meat (11%), Chicken oil (11%), Peas, Potato, Lamb liver hydrolyzate (3%), Carrot, Pumpkin, Potato protein, Yeast, Beet pulp, Salmon Oil (3%), Flaxseed, Mixed fruits (Apple and Blueberries) Mixed vegetables (Tomato and Spinach), Algae, Mannan-oligosaccharides (MOS 0.1%), Inulin (FOS 0.1%), Yucca schidigera, Rosemary, Parsley, Glucosamine 650 mg/kg, Chondroitin 150 mg/kg.

Against the range

Meat: Lamb, dehydrated and fresh; The Wild recipe has three birds and rabbit
Protein, declared: 29.0%; 33.0% on the Wild recipe
Carbohydrate, dry matter: 40.2%; 33.1% on the Wild recipe

The more transparent of the two, with the red meat the only land animal.

Both recipes start with dehydrated meat, then a starch from peas or potato, then an animal oil high enough to matter. No cereal appears in either. Beet pulp, yeast, potato protein, FOS and MOS and yucca sit behind the meat on both labels, and glucosamine at 650 mg/kg with chondroitin at 150 mg/kg is printed on each.

Taurine is dosed on both, and every trace mineral has its own figure, in oxide and sulphate forms. Neither label prints calcium or moisture.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

385 kcal/100g

Protein

29%

Fat

17%

Fibre

2.5%

Ash

6.5%

Dry weight

Protein

31.5%

Fat

18.5%

Fibre

2.7%

Ash

7.1%

Carbs

40.2%

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

38%

Carbs

37.2%

Veg

8.8%

Oils

14%

Other

Pricing & size