Nature's Variety

Nature's Variety Paté Adult Mini: Chicken review

Name: Nature's Variety Paté Adult Mini: Chicken
Brand: Nature's Variety

72.2/100Excellent

WetAdult

The brand's three-meat paté in a pack scaled to a small dog, and it sits in our Excellent band. Half the dry matter is protein, so a little bowl carries a lot. Pork is the entry worth pausing on, a fresher protein for plenty of dogs and a very palatable one.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Toy and small dogs fed in spoonfuls. A smaller pack leaves less opened food under cling film
A lot of nutrition in a small volume
Owners avoiding cereal: peas and carrots at 2% each are the only plants of any size
Delicate digestions, helped by inulin at 0.2%

Worth watching

Three land animals and a fish oil, so no exclusion diet where any of them is the trigger
No energy figure on the pack, so any serving guide is an estimate
Crude fibre is light at 2.3% of dry matter

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

How this scores

How we score

72.2/100Excellent

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueExcellent

The details

Dog fit

Listed for small adult dogs. With no printed energy value, weigh your dog for the first few weeks and adjust the spoonfuls from there.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Small

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

Chicken 72.2

All one Excellent. Typical wet food: Excellent.

The analysis reads like meat, and the one gap is on the pack: no energy value printed.

What's in it

Chicken40%The largest share; no way round it for a dog with a chicken problem.
Pork20%A fresh protein for many dogs, and a palatable one.
Beef5%A flavour note more than a nutritional one.
Peas, carrots2% eachWhole, not refined into flours.
Minerals
Salmon oilA fourth animal source.
Inulin0.2%Soluble chicory fibre that feeds friendly gut bacteria.

Each trace element printed as the compound and again as the element it delivers, zinc sulphate at 54.9 mg giving 20 mg of zinc.

No energy value on the label; our daily amount rests on an estimate.

Named ingredients

Chicken* (40%), pork* (20%), beef* (5%), peas* (2%), carrots* (2%), minerals, salmon oil*, inulin* (0.2%). *Natural ingredients.

Against the range

Chicken at 40%, pork at 20% and beef at 5% make 65% named, quantified animal content. Peas and carrots are the only plants of any size, and estimated carbohydrate stops at 6.8% of dry matter.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

99 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

11%

Fat

6.5%

Fibre

0.5%

Ash

2.5%

Moisture

78%

Dry weight

Protein

50%

Fat

29.5%

Fibre

2.3%

Ash

11.4%

Carbs

6.8%

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

65%

Added water

18.5%

Carbs

Veg

Oils

4.6%

Other

7.9%

Pricing & size