Nature's Protection

Nature's Protection Superior Care White Dogs Junior Small & Mini Breed review

Name: Nature's Protection Superior Care White Dogs Junior Small & Mini Breed
Brand: Nature's Protection

49.2/100Average

DryPuppy

The little-dog version of the maker's white-coat growth range, and it sits in our Average band. White fish weighed dry leads at 42%, so the headline is a fair guide to what reaches the kibble. What the label leaves out is a calcium figure, the growth mineral that matters most.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Small and mini breed puppies, the only size it is listed for
Young dogs raised on fish, with white fish and krill providing the animal protein
Cereal-free homes
Owners who like the fibre plan spelled out: sugar beet pulp and FOS are both named

Worth watching

White fish names no species, so no steering round one particular fish
Krill, salmon oil and an unnamed bird fat widen the picture for an exclusion trial
No calcium figure on the printed analysis

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

How this scores

How we score

49.2/100Average

Protein and processingAverage

Nutritional balanceAverage

TransparencyExcellent

ValueAverage

The details

Dog fit

Listed for small and mini breed puppies. Feed from the pack's chart against age and expected adult size, adjusting in small steps as the weeks go by.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Puppy

Breed size

Small

Main protein

White Fish

The score, in context

Nature's Protection Superior Care White Dogs Junior Small & Mini Breed 49.2

All one Average. Typical dry food: Good.

Carbohydrate a little above the puppy typical keeps it from pressing higher, since a growth food earns most of its standing on the meat side.

What's in it

White fish, dry and finely ground42%Weighed dry. A category name that can cover cod, haddock and pollock.
Dehydrated potato pulp, sweet potato, peasThe plant base. No cereal.
Bird fatNo species named.
Krill flourmin. 4%Milled whole, bringing oils and pigment. Puts crustacean on the allergen picture.
Sugar beet pulpFibre most dogs handle comfortably.
Salmon oil
Clinoptilolite1%A volcanic mineral used as a binder.
Linseed, FOS, cassava extractLinseed appears under its Spanish name, linaza.
Green tea, dried calendulaCatechins, and lutein from the calendula.

Vitamins A, D3 and E with folic acid and biotin, and iron, iodine, copper, manganese, zinc and selenium all dosed.

No calcium figure on the label, though ash at 9.0% points to a generous mineral package.

Named ingredients

42 % white fish (dry and finely ground), dehydrated potato pulp, sweet potato, peas, bird fat, krill flour (min. 4 %), sugar beet pulp, salmon oil, dynamic micronized clinoptilolite (1 %), linaza, fructooligosaccharides (FOS), cassava extract, green tea, dry calendula (lutein source).

Against the range

One small-breed puppy kibble. White fish at 42%, dry and finely ground, leads, with krill flour at a minimum of 4% behind it. Potato pulp, sweet potato and peas carry the starch, with no cereal, and a short functional tail closes the list.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

349.8 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

26%

Fat

15%

Fibre

3.5%

Ash

Moisture

Dry weight

Protein

28.6%

Fat

16.5%

Fibre

3.8%

Ash

9.9%

Carbs

41.2%

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

46%

Carbs

46.9%

Oils

4.1%

Other

Pricing & size