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Naturaw Forage Puppy: Free Range Turkey review

Name: Naturaw Forage Puppy: Free Range Turkey
Brand: Naturaw

85.5/100Outstanding

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Flavour

Frozen raw for puppies with a whole-food answer to micronutrition: no premix, and egg, oily fish, seaweed and a botanical blend doing that job instead. Sourcing is written into the ingredient names, from organic British chicken to grass fed British lamb. Both recipes sit in our Outstanding band.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Puppy owners who want free range, grass fed and organic named on the list
Growing dogs that need meat doing the work
Homes steering clear of synthetic supplements
A puppy raised on variety, with beef organs behind the chicken and lamb organs behind the turkey
Organ meat from the start, heart and liver itemised on both

Worth watching

No calcium figure on either recipe, which matters more for a large-breed puppy
Blue mussel, egg and an unnamed oily fish, worth registering in the right household
Frozen 500g packs need freezer room, a fridge defrost and the usual hygiene

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

How this scores

How we score

85.5/100Outstanding

Protein and processingOutstanding

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyGood

ValueOutstanding

The details

Dog fit

Listed for puppies of every size, fed by bodyweight from 8% a day under three months and less as they grow. For a large-breed pup, ask Naturaw for the calcium figure first.

Food type

Raw

Life stage

Puppy

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Turkey

The score, in context

Free Range Turkey 85.5
Naturaw Forage Puppy 80.1

All two Outstanding. Typical raw food: Outstanding.

Holding the top band without a premix is the interesting part; the turkey edges ahead on a fully percentaged label and a more protein-led analysis.

What's in it

Free range British turkey with bone46.8%
Boneless grass fed British lamb meat, heart12.5% eachPart of a 32.3% lamb share.
Lamb liver7.3%A real organ share for a growing dog.
Whole seasonal oily fish6.6%No species named.
Organic broccoli5.6%
Forage botanical blend2.5%Seaweed, wheatgrass, pumpkin and hemp seeds, blue mussel, cleavers, nettles, sea salt. Wheatgrass is the leaf, not the grain.
Organic kale2.3%
Whole blackberries, free range British egg1.9% each

No calcium figure published. For a large-breed puppy, ask Naturaw for it.

Blue mussel inside the botanical blend, a shellfish.

Named ingredients

Free Range British Turkey with Bone 46.8%, Boneless Grass Fed British Lamb 32.3% (Meat 12.5%, Heart 12.5%, Liver 7.3%), Whole Seasonal Oily Fish 6.6%, Organic Broccoli 5.6%, Forage Botanical Blend 2.5% (Hand Harvested Organic Scottish Seaweed, Wheatgrass, Pumpkin Seeds, Hemp Seeds, Scandinavian Blue Mussel - MSC, Cleavers, Nettles, Pure Yorkshire Sea Salt) Organic Kale 2.3%, Whole Blackberries 1.9%, Free Range British Egg 1.9%

Against the range

Percentages: On every entry; None on the chicken-led recipe.
Protein, dry matter: 55.2%; 46.0% on the chicken.
Fat, dry matter: 29.6%; 39.8% on the chicken.
Transparency: Good; Average on the chicken.

The leaner of the pair and the gentler introduction for a puppy new to raw.

Neither recipe carries a vitamin and mineral premix. Whole seasonal oily fish, free range British egg, organic broccoli and kale, blackberries and the Forage botanical blend are asked to do that work. The blend holds Scottish seaweed, wheatgrass, pumpkin and hemp seeds, blue mussel, cleavers, nettles and Yorkshire sea salt. Both put a bird with its bone first and a grass fed British red meat with heart and liver behind it.

What differs is how much the label tells you and how rich the bowl is. The turkey prints a percentage on every entry; the chicken prints none. Carbohydrate stays under 5% of dry matter on both, with nothing starchy on either list.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

139.8 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

16.83%

Fat

9.03%

Fibre

0.76%

Ash

2.68%

Moisture

69.51%

Dry weight

Protein

55.2%

Fat

29.6%

Fibre

2.5%

Ash

8.8%

Carbs

3.9%

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

89.8%

Veg

8.3%

Other

1.9%

Pricing & size