Nature's Protection

Nature's Protection Superior Care Red Coat Adult Small Breed: With Lamb review

Name: Nature's Protection Superior Care Red Coat Adult Small Breed: With Lamb
Brand: Nature's Protection

54.2/100Good

DryAdult

Flavour

A small breed kibble drawn up for red and brown coats, with both recipes in our Good band. The meat is declared dry, 40% lamb or 44% salmon, and there is no cereal. The coat thinking is in the additives panel: three amino acids, each with a dose.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Small adults in red, brown or chestnut coats, the dog on the bag
Little dogs kept off cereal
Omega 3 from the sea, with krill flour on both lists
Owners who read the additives panel, where L-tyrosine, L-cystine and L-tryptophan each have a figure

Worth watching

Krill and salmon oil in both, so neither suits a dog kept off fish
Bird fat with no species
No glucosamine or chondroitin, so keep any joint supplement going

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

How this scores

How we score

54.2/100Good

Protein and processingAverage

Nutritional balanceAverage

TransparencyExcellent

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Listed for small breed adults. The pigment amino acids keep a pathway supplied; genetics still decide the colour, so judge the food on the dog's condition.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Lamb

The score, in context

With Salmon 56.6
With Lamb 54.2

All two Good. Typical dry food: Good.

Generous dried meat declarations carry both into the band, and a protein figure that is solid without being large holds them there.

What's in it

Lamb meat (dry and finely ground)40%Dried, so what you read is much what ends up in the biscuit.
Dehydrated potato pulp, sweet potato, peasNo cereal; these lead the plant side.
Bird fatNo species named, which limits a strict poultry trial.
Krill flour, salmon oilkrill 4%The marine anchor for skin and coat, and the reason neither recipe is fish free.
Sugar beet pulp, linseed, FOSFibre, plant omega 3 and a prebiotic.
Clinoptilolite1%A binder, no kind of nutrient.
Cassava extractDoes the binding a grain would.
Green tea extract, dry calendulaCalendula for lutein.

Three amino acids for coat pigment, L-tyrosine and L-tryptophan at 500 mg and L-cystine at 1 g, with sulphate trace minerals and selenium as sodium selenite, the less easily absorbed form.

Named ingredients

40%lamb meat (dry and finely ground), dehydrated potato pulp, sweet potato, peas, bird fat, krill flour (4%), sugar beet pulp, salmon oil, dynamic micinoptilolite (1%), LINAZA, FROUCTOOLIGOSACÁRIDOS (FOS), Cassava extract, green tea extract, dry calendula (lutein source)

Against the range

Meat: Lamb, 40%; Salmon at 44% in the other.
Fat, dry matter: 16.5%; 18.7% in the salmon.
Ash, dry matter: 11.6%; 9.3% in the salmon.
Carbohydrate, dry matter: 41.1%; 39.0% in the salmon.

The plainer of the two, with the heavier mineral content.

Both recipes open on a dried, finely ground meat, lamb at 40% or salmon at 44%, so little of the figure is lost in the kibble. Neither has cereal: dehydrated potato pulp, sweet potato and peas take its place. Krill flour at 4%, salmon oil and linseed carry the omega 3 in both, and both dose the same three coat pigment amino acids.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

349.4 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

26%

Fat

15%

Fibre

Ash

10.6%

Moisture

Dry weight

Protein

28.6%

Fat

16.5%

Fibre

2.2%

Ash

11.6%

Carbs

41.1%

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

44%

Carbs

48.7%

Oils

4.2%

Other

3.1%

Pricing & size