Natures Deli

Natures Deli Grain Free Adult: Salmon & Sweet Potato review

Name: Natures Deli Grain Free Adult: Salmon & Sweet Potato
Brand: Natures Deli

63.1/100Good

DryAdult

Flavour

Two Good single-animal kibbles, duck or salmon, with no cereal and the meat declared in three parts. A sensible, unshowy food whose small print is better than its front.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Exclusion diets: the duck bag names only duck, the salmon bag only salmon
Homes avoiding cereal altogether
Dogs that have reacted to chicken; neither recipe has any
Dogs kept off fish, through the duck
Older dogs needing a little joint help

Worth watching

Dried sweet potato as the biggest plant entry, so plenty of starch
Glucosamine and chondroitin are animal derived, so a strict elimination trial should count them

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

How this scores

How we score

63.1/100Good

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceAverage

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults of every size. The maker asks 175 to 295 grams for a dog of 10kg to 20kg; begin there and let your dog's shape narrow it down.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Salmon

The score, in context

Duck 66.1
Salmon 63.1

All two Good. Typical dry food: Good.

There is little between the two, so your dog's preference should decide it.

What's in it

Salmon: salmon meal 25.7%, salmon 7.5%, salmon stock 1.9%35.1%
Dried sweet potato31.4%
Dried potato15.1%Shares the starch work.
Salmon oilLong-chain marine omega 3 a dog uses directly.
Dried peas, chick peas, pumpkin1.9% each
Minerals, beet pulp, brewers' yeast, linseed oil, vegetable stock, carrot0.5% carrot
MOS, FOS0.23% eachA prebiotic pair.
Ginger, rosemary, yucca, cranberry, dandelion root, pomegranate
Glucosamine, chondroitin sulphate0.012%, 0.005%

Vitamins A, E and C with taurine and L-carnitine, zinc as both oxide and chelate, and a Bacillus gut flora stabiliser; vitamin D3 is not printed on this panel.

Named ingredients

Salmon (35.1%; including salmon meal (25.7%), salmon (7.5%), salmon stock (1.9%)), dried sweet potato (31.4%), dried potato (15.1%), salmon oil, minerals, dried peas (1.9%), dried chick peas (1.9%), dried pumpkin (1.9%), dried beet pulp, brewers' yeast, linseed oil, vegetable stock, dried carrot (0.5%), yeast (as a source of mannan-oligosaccharides (prebiotic MOS; 0.23%)), chicory root extract (as a source of fructo-oligosaccharides (prebiotic FOS; 0.23%)), dried ginger, dried rosemary, yucca schidigera (0.023%), glucosamine (0.012%), dried cranberry, dried dandelion root, dried pomegranate, chondroitin sulphate (0.005%)

Against the range

Meat: Salmon, 35.1%; Duck at 40.3% on the other bag.
Starch: Sweet potato and dried potato; Sweet potato alone in the duck.
Calcium, dry matter: 1.43%; 2.2% on the duck.

Fish from the meat to the oil, for a dog that must stay off land meats.

Each bag holds one animal, declared in three parts: a meal share doing the heavy lifting, a fresh share and a gravy or stock. Dried sweet potato is the second ingredient in both, so grain free here means no cereal, with carbohydrate at 44.0% and 46.2% of dry matter.

Both print taurine and L-carnitine, MOS and FOS at 0.23% each, a small joint pair and zinc as both oxide and chelate. The fat differs: duck fat on one, salmon oil on the other, linseed oil on both.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

336.5 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

25%

Fat

12%

Fibre

3.5%

Ash

8.5%

Moisture

Dry weight

Protein

27.5%

Fat

13.2%

Fibre

3.8%

Ash

9.3%

Carbs

46.2%

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

25.7%

Added water

1.5%

Carbs

55.7%

Veg

2.8%

Oils

7.5%

Other

6.8%