Natures Deli

Natures Deli Adult Light review

Name: Natures Deli Adult Light
Brand: Natures Deli

55.9/100Good

DryAdult

A turkey and rice kibble for the dog whose waistline has quietly got ahead of them. If your vet has started using the word diet, a recipe built for it beats simply halving dinner: fat is kept to 8.5% and L-carnitine is dosed at 150 mg. It lands in our Good band.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Owners working on a waistline
Turkey-tolerant dogs, as no other animal is named
Older dogs starting to stiffen, with glucosamine and chondroitin declared by percentage
Households with more than one size of dog, toy to giant

Worth watching

The two rices together outweigh the turkey
Glucosamine and chondroitin are made from animal material
A dog still working hard will need more than the guide suggests

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

How this scores

How we score

55.9/100Good

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balancePoor

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults of every size, with calcium at a comfortable 1.54% of dry matter. Let your dog's waistline have the last word over the feeding table.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Turkey

The score, in context

Natures Deli Adult Light 55.9

All one Good. Typical dry food: Good.

The rice, not the turkey, is what stops it climbing; the low fat is exactly what a light food is for.

What's in it

Turkey: turkey meal, turkey, turkey gravy30% (22.5%, 5.6%, 1.9%)The dry meal carries far more protein into the kibble than the fresh share. Turkey is leaner than chicken by nature.
Brown rice29%Gentle on most digestions.
White rice18.5%With the brown rice, more of the recipe than the bird.
Dried beet pulpThe fibre source.
Dried sweet potato, turkey fat, dried peas, chick peas, pumpkin2.8% down to 1.9%
Minerals, brewers' yeast, vegetable stock, linseed oil, dried carrot
Yeast, chicory root extract0.14% eachPrebiotic MOS and FOS, working on the large intestine's bacteria.
Dried rosemary, yucca schidigera, cranberry, dandelion root, pomegranateSeasoning.
Glucosamine, chondroitin sulphate0.012%, 0.005%A gentle daily top up, both from animal material.

L-carnitine at 150 mg for the fat-burning job, vitamins A, D3, E and C with biotin, and zinc partly as a chelate, the easier form to take up, plus a gut flora stabiliser.

Named ingredients

Turkey (30%; including turkey meal (22.5%), turkey (5.6%), turkey gravy (1.9%)), brown rice (29%), white rice (18.5%), dried beet pulp, dried sweet potato (2.8%), turkey fat (1.9%), dried peas (1.9%), dried chick peas (1.9%), dried pumpkin (1.9%), minerals, brewers' yeast, vegetable stock, linseed oil, 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 (0.023%), glucosamine (0.012%), dried cranberry, dried dandelion root, dried pomegranate, chondroitin sulphate (0.005%)

Against the range

One recipe: turkey at 30%, split into meal, meat and gravy, then brown rice at 29% and white rice at 18.5%. Small shares of sweet potato, peas, chick peas and pumpkin follow, with a pair of prebiotics, glucosamine and chondroitin each carrying a printed percentage. Turkey is the only named animal.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

317.2 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

22.5%

Fat

8.5%

Fibre

3.5%

Ash

Moisture

Dry weight

Protein

24.7%

Fat

9.3%

Fibre

3.8%

Ash

9.9%

Carbs

52.3%

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

22.5%

Added water

2.5%

Carbs

63.3%

Veg

2.9%

Oils

2.7%

Other

Pricing & size