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Nature's Harvest Cold Pressed Adult: Chicken And Sweet Potato Pie review

Name: Nature's Harvest Cold Pressed Adult: Chicken And Sweet Potato Pie
Brand: Nature's Harvest

77.4/100Excellent

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Flavour

Two grain-free cold-pressed pellets, made under pressure at low temperature where ordinary kibble is baked. The chicken sits in our Excellent band and the fish a step below in Good. Both carry joint support and a prebiotic built into the food.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Dogs that gulp their dinner. The pellets break up in liquid where baked kibble swells
Grain-free homes, with sweet potato, beet pulp and peas in place of cereal
Older dogs, whose owners like chondroitin and glucosamine in the food itself
Dogs settled on one kind of meat: each recipe names a single source and takes its oil from it
A house of mixed sizes, since the feeding chart runs from 1kg to past 60kg

Worth watching

Ocean fish with no species named in the fish recipe
Carbohydrate at roughly a third of dry matter, which is how a pressed pellet holds together
Pellets crumble more readily than kibble, so keep an opened bag in a dry, sealed bin

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

How this scores

How we score

77.4/100Excellent

Protein and processingExcellent

Nutritional balanceExcellent

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueExcellent

The details

Dog fit

Listed for puppies, adults and seniors of every size. The chart puts a 15kg adult at about 180 grams a day; check the joint pair's dose with the maker if it matters to you, as none is printed.

Food type

Cold pressed

Life stage

Puppy, Adult, Senior

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

Chicken 77.4
Fish 64.6

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

A named meat up front and a fully printed panel earn the bands; the starch a pressed pellet needs to hold its shape is what holds them back.

What's in it

Dried ground chicken42%Dried before pressing, so it is worth more than the same figure on a wet label.
Sweet potato20%Starch with fibre and beta carotene attached.
Beet pulp, peasSteady fibre, and a little plant protein.
Chicken oil3.3%Same bird as the meat.
Carrots, apples, seaweedSeaweed brings iodine.
Chicory inulinA prebiotic fibre.
Fennel seed, sage, thyme, nettle, oreganoCharacter more than nutrition.
Chondroitin, glucosamineThe joint pair, with no dose printed.
Turmeric, dandelion root
Linseed oil, rapeseed oilLinseed supplies the omega 3 here.

A full panel per kilo, vitamin C at 50mg and vitamin K at 2mg among it, with selenium as sodium selenite at 0.1mg.

Named ingredients

Dried Ground Chicken 42%, Sweet Potato 20%, Beet Pulp, Peas, Chicken Oil 3.3%, Carrots, Apples, Seaweed, Chicory Inulin, Fennel Seed, Sage Leaf, Thyme, Nettle, Oregano, Chondroitin, Glucosamine, Turmeric, Dandelion Root, Linseed Oil, Rapeseed Oil.

Against the range

Meat: Dried ground chicken 42%; Dried ground ocean fish 49% in the other.
Fat, dry matter: 10.7%; 12.0% on the fish.
Omega 3: From linseed oil; From the fish itself in the other.

The leaner of the pair, and the stronger on our scoring.

Both recipes are pressed at low temperature, grain free, and change only the animal at the front. That animal arrives dried and ground, and its oil comes from the same source. Sweet potato at 20% leads the plant side, then beet pulp and peas.

The tail is busier than most: chondroitin and glucosamine with no printed dose, chicory inulin, seaweed and a run of culinary herbs. The vitamin and mineral panel is printed in full, vitamin C and K included. Carbohydrate sits at 34.5% of dry matter on both.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

360 kcal/100g

Protein

32%

Fat

Fibre

Ash

Moisture

16%

Dry weight

Protein

38.1%

Fat

10.7%

Fibre

Ash

10.7%

Carbs

34.5%

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

42%

Carbs

44.3%

Veg

Oils

3.3%

Other

1.4%

Pricing & size