Natural Instinct

Natural Instinct Natural Working Dog Range: Duck review

Name: Natural Instinct Natural Working Dog Range: Duck
Brand: Natural Instinct

84.6/100Outstanding

RawAdult

Flavour

Six Outstanding frozen minces for dogs in regular work, each 85% meat with a short, familiar vegetable tail and no grain. Three name a single bird; the other three pair two animals, beef, salmon or green tripe alongside chicken.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Working and sporting dogs
Dogs kept off red meat, through the single-bird recipes
Homes keeping cereal out of the bowl
Several dogs at once, with one family labelled toy to giant
A change of bird, with duck and turkey on their own

Worth watching

Salmon oil on all six, so none is fish free
Freezer space, a fridge defrost and clean surfaces and hands
The Duck's panel does not reconcile, and it prints no calcium

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

How this scores

How we score

84.6/100Outstanding

Protein and processingOutstanding

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyGood

ValueOutstanding

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults of every size. If your dog takes a mineral supplement, check which recipe you feed, as calcium varies more than twofold across the range.

Food type

Raw

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Duck

The score, in context

Chicken 85.3
Chicken 85.1
Chicken 84.6
Duck 84.6
Beef 84.4
Turkey 83.3

All six Outstanding. Typical raw food: Outstanding.

A remarkably even result for six labels on one construction, keeping company at the very top of the strongest field we score.

What's in it

Duck85%No second animal bar the salmon oil.
Apple, butternut squashFibre and micronutrients, not bulk.
Carrot
KelpIodine.
Salmon oilVitamin D and omega 3, and fish on every label.
Spinach
Vitamin CThe only supplemented nutrient in the range.

Vitamin C, written inline; no separate additives panel is published.

The printed analysis does not reconcile once converted to dry matter, and no calcium figure is published. Read this panel as a guide.

Named ingredients

Duck 85%, apple, butternut squash, carrot, kelp, salmon oil, spinach, vitamin c

Against the range

Energy: 207 kcal per 100g; The highest in the range; the turkey is 139.
Calcium: Not declared; 1.98% to 4.83% of dry matter on the others.
Animal: Duck; Chicken, turkey or beef in the others.

The range's answer for a dog steering around chicken, turkey and beef.

Every recipe fixes the animal share at 85%, named to species, then the same tail: apple, butternut squash, carrot, kelp, salmon oil and spinach. Vitamin C is the only supplemented nutrient, so the micronutrition rests on kelp, the salmon oil and the meat itself.

Three recipes keep to one bird and three pair two animals. Carbohydrate sits between nothing and 3.7% of dry matter. Ground bone does the mineral work, with calcium from 1.98% to 4.83% of dry matter where declared.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

206.8 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

21.2%

Fat

15.6%

Fibre

1.6%

Ash

3.7%

Moisture

66.4%

Dry weight

Protein

63.1%

Fat

46.4%

Fibre

4.8%

Ash

11%

Carbs

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

85%

Veg

13.8%

Oils

0.8%

Other

0.4%

Pricing & size