Natures Deli

Natures Deli Adult review

Name: Natures Deli Adult
Brand: Natures Deli

63.7/100Good

DryAdult

Flavour

One named meat over brown rice, then a long, gentle tail of fruit, vegetables and gut-friendly extras. Both the turkey and the lamb and rice sit in our Good band. Neither carries any fish, and both name their meat down to the gravy.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Dogs on a one-meat plan: turkey alone in one recipe, lamb alone in the other
Dogs kept clear of fish, with linseed oil for the omega 3
Digestion that needs a hand, with MOS and FOS at 0.14% each and a live culture
Owners who like pumpkin, cranberry, pomegranate and carrot named on the label
Dogs that eat rice happily

Worth watching

Brown rice at close to a third of each recipe
A light joint dose, glucosamine at 0.012%, so a stiff dog needs more on top
Vegetable stock with no vegetables named, the one vague line

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

How this scores

How we score

63.7/100Good

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceAverage

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults of every size. The lamb bag asks 170 to 285 grams a day for a 15 kg dog, so start there and let the ribs settle it.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Turkey

The score, in context

Lamb 64.9
Natures Deli Adult 63.7

All two Good. Typical dry food: Good.

The two finish together, and the turkey is no lesser bowl in any way that shows on the bag.

What's in it

Turkey: turkey meal, turkey, turkey gravy36.5% (28.9%, 5.7%, 1.9%)Mostly meal, which delivers far more protein gram for gram than fresh meat.
Brown rice31.9%Bran and germ kept, with fibre and B vitamins.
Dried beet pulpFermentable fibre.
Turkey fatThe only added animal fat.
Dried peas, chick peas, sweet potato, pumpkin3.8% down to 1.9%
Brewers' yeast, minerals
Linseed oilPlant omega 3, slow to convert, so judge a coat over a couple of months.
Vegetable stock, dried carrotCarrot 0.5%The stock names no vegetables.
Prebiotic MOS, prebiotic FOS0.14% each
Rosemary, yucca, glucosamine, cranberry, dandelion root, pomegranate, chondroitin sulphate0.024% down to 0.005%

Zinc as both oxide and a chelate, the second taken up more easily, with a live Bacillus subtilis culture and tocopherols keeping the fats fresh.

Named ingredients

Turkey (36.5%; including turkey meal (28.9%), turkey (5.7%), turkey gravy (1.9%)), brown rice (31.9%), dried beet pulp, turkey fat, dried peas (3.8%), dried chick peas (2.8%), dried sweet potato (2.8%), brewers' yeast, dried pumpkin (1.9%), minerals, linseed oil, vegetable stock, dried carrot (0.5%), yeast (as a source of mannan-oligosaccharides (prebiotic MOS; 0.14%)), chicory root extract (as a source of fructo-oligosaccharides (prebiotic FOS; 0.14%)), dried rosemary, yucca schidigera (0.024%), glucosamine (0.012%), dried cranberry, dried dandelion root, dried pomegranate, chondroitin sulphate (0.005%)

Against the range

Meat: 36.5%, mostly turkey meal; 32% lamb, half of it fresh
Carbohydrate, dry matter: 41.8%; 43%
Calcium, dry matter: 1.87%; 2.61%
Pea protein: None; Added in the lamb

The meatier build on paper, with no plant protein propping up the total.

Both recipes break their meat block into meal, fresh meat and gravy, with brown rice as the only grain at close to a third of the bowl. Linseed oil is the only added oil, so neither carries fish. Both share a long tail of peas, chick peas, sweet potato and pumpkin, the same prebiotics and live Bacillus subtilis culture, a light joint dose and an identical mineral panel with zinc given twice over. What varies is the meat split, the lamb's added pea protein and its richer calcium.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

343 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

26%

Fat

14%

Fibre

3.5%

Ash

9.5%

Moisture

Dry weight

Protein

28.6%

Fat

15.4%

Fibre

3.8%

Ash

10.4%

Carbs

41.8%

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

28.9%

Added water

1.6%

Carbs

55.1%

Veg

2.9%

Oils

5.7%

Other

5.8%