Nature's Variety

Nature's Variety Healthy Grains Adult Medium / Maxi: White Fish review

Name: Nature's Variety Healthy Grains Adult Medium / Maxi: White Fish
Brand: Nature's Variety

50.3/100Good

DryAdult

Flavour

A grain-inclusive kibble that names its cereals one by one, and all three varieties finish in our Good band. Oats, brown rice and whole barley each have a place on the list. The tail is printed to the hundredth of a percent, down to the kelp and rosemary.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Owners who want grain in the bowl, each one named and placed
Medium, large and giant adults: the kibble size and feeding table are set for them
Label readers. Almost every working ingredient carries a percentage
Rotating flavours for one dog, since the three recipes share a base and swap only the headline animal
A lower carbohydrate kibble than most, estimated at 40.7% of dry matter against 46.2% typical

Worth watching

Poultry, pork and fish in one hydrolysed protein across all three, so no single protein trial
Dried chicken protein second on the turkey label as well
Maize protein in every recipe, for a household that keeps maize out

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

How this scores

How we score

50.3/100Good

Protein and processingAverage

Nutritional balanceGood

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Listed for medium, large and giant adults. Moisture is not declared on any of the three, so the dry matter figures rest on an assumed 8%; weigh the daily amount from the label's table.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

White Fish

The score, in context

Turkey 54.6
Chicken 53.7
White Fish 50.3

All three Good. Typical dry food: Good.

Solid mainstream kibble across all three, held back by how much of the meat is fresh weight and lifted by a label printed with percentages nearly the whole way down.

What's in it

Deboned white fish (cod and other seasonal fish)16%A fresh weight, so it shrinks.
Dried peas, oats15% and 13%
Maize protein
Dried tuna protein10%The concentrate here, smaller than the 15% the birds get.
Brown rice, whole barley7% (rice)
Poultry fat6%Bird fat in a fish recipe.
Hydrolysed animal proteins (poultry, pork, fish)4%Broken down so they taste stronger. Three animals in one entry, so no single protein trial.
Beet pulp, minerals
Dried carrot, dried apple0.5% and 0.3%
Dried kelp, dried rosemary0.01% eachKelp for iodine, rosemary to hold off fats turning. Neither moves the nutrition at this level.

Vitamins A, E and C with iron, iodine, copper, manganese and zinc as sulphates or iodide, zinc the biggest at 135 mg, and selenium as sodium selenite.

Named ingredients

Deboned white fish* (cod and other seasonal fish) (16%), dried peas* (15%), oats* (13%), maize protein, dried tuna protein (10%), brown rice* (7%), whole barley*, poultry fat* (6%), hydrolysed animal proteins (poultry, pork, fish) (4%), beet pulp*, minerals, dried carrot* (0.5% equivalent to 4% of fresh carrot), dried apple* (0.3% equivalent to 2% fresh apple), dried seaweed (kelp)* (0.01%), dried rosemary* (0.01%). *Natural ingredients

Against the range

Headline meat: Cod and other seasonal fish, 16%; Chicken or turkey at 16%
Dried protein: Tuna, 10%; Chicken at 15% on the bird recipes
Other animals on the label: Poultry fat and the poultry, pork and fish hydrolysate; The same on all three

Fish-led, not fish-only, and the one to try for a dog whose patience with birds has run out.

Every recipe opens on a deboned meat or fish at 16%, a fresh weight that shrinks in the oven, with a dried protein concentrate behind it doing more of the work. Dried peas at 15%, oats, brown rice, whole barley and maize protein make up the base, and poultry fat at 6% is in all three.

A hydrolysed protein from poultry, pork and fish runs through the whole range. Protein converts to 30.4% of dry matter on each, on an assumed moisture of 8%. The headline animal and the concentrate behind it are what change.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

365.2 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

28%

Fat

16%

Fibre

Ash

7.5%

Dry weight

Protein

30.4%

Fat

17.4%

Fibre

3.3%

Ash

8.2%

Carbs

40.7%

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

30%

Carbs

60.2%

Veg

2.2%

Oils

Other

1.7%

Pricing & size