Natures Deli

Natures Deli Senior review

Name: Natures Deli Senior
Brand: Natures Deli

60.7/100Good

DryAdultSenior

The brand's turkey and rice recipe with the years taken into account. Turkey is declared at 33.3%, brown rice at 28.5% does the starch work, and the joint supplements step up to glucosamine at 0.033% and chondroitin sulphate at 0.019%. Fat sits at 11% with L-carnitine behind it. A sound everyday food in our Good band.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Senior dogs and steady adults alike
Older hips, with glucosamine and chondroitin sulphate printed at real percentages
Dogs on turkey alone. No second animal appears on the list
Dogs whose exercise has eased off; fat is held at 11%
Two prebiotics, one from yeast and one from chicory root

Worth watching

Brown and white rice together outweigh the turkey
No fish oil, so the omega 3 is the plant kind, slower to show in a coat
The joint pair comes from animal material, worth counting on a strict single protein

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

How this scores

How we score

60.7/100Good

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceAverage

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults and seniors of every size. The daily amount is our estimate, so start there and let your dog's shape do the fine tuning.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult, Senior

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Turkey

The score, in context

Natures Deli Senior 60.7

All one Good. Typical dry food: Good.

The whole shortfall sits in nutritional balance, from the rice share; for an older dog that gets on with turkey this stays an easy, unfussy bowl.

What's in it

Turkey: meal, fresh, gravy33.3% (25.8%, 5.6%, 1.9%)The meal carries most of it into the kibble. Good to see the three shares printed.
Brown rice28.5%Keeps more of its bran and minerals than the white.
White rice10%
Dried beet pulp, turkey fat
Dried peas, chick peas, sweet potato2.8% each
Brewers' yeast, dried pumpkin, minerals, vegetable stock1.9% for the pumpkin
Linseed oil, dried carrot0.5% for the carrotThe omega 3, in its plant form.
Yeast, chicory root extract0.14% eachMOS and FOS, food for the gut bacteria.
Glucosamine, chondroitin sulphate0.033%, 0.019%Several times above the usual token amounts. Background support, not a joint rebuild.
Rosemary, yucca, cranberry, dandelion root, pomegranate0.023% for the yuccaDecoration.

L-carnitine at 150 mg for fat metabolism, and zinc given twice, 70 mg as the oxide and 50 mg as the more readily absorbed chelate.

Named ingredients

Turkey (33.3%; including turkey meal (25.8%), turkey (5.6%), turkey gravy (1.9%)), brown rice (28.5%), white rice (10%), dried beet pulp, turkey fat, dried peas (2.8%), dried chick peas (2.8%), dried sweet potato (2.8%), brewers' yeast, dried pumpkin (1.9%), minerals, 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%)), glucosamine (0.033%), dried rosemary, yucca schidigera (0.023%), chondroitin sulphate (0.019%), dried cranberry, dried dandelion root, dried pomegranate

Against the range

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

328 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

25%

Fat

11%

Fibre

3.5%

Ash

9.5%

Moisture

Dry weight

Protein

27.5%

Fat

12.1%

Fibre

3.8%

Ash

10.4%

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

25.8%

Added water

2.2%

Carbs

59.2%

Veg

2.9%

Oils

4.7%

Other

5.2%