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Natures Menu Complete & Balanced 60/40 Minced Block: Beef and Chicken review

Name: Natures Menu Complete & Balanced 60/40 Minced Block: Beef and Chicken
Brand: Natures Menu

81.5/100Outstanding

RawAdult

Flavour

Raw feeding with a bit of ballast underneath. Each frozen 300g block is 60% named meat and fish, and the rest is brown rice and vegetables, which makes for a steadier bowl than an all-meat mince. The beef and the tripe reach our Outstanding band, with the chicken and lamb a step behind in Excellent.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Dogs new to raw. Rice and vegetables make a softer change than a straight meat and bone bowl
A small unit to work with: 300g blocks, easy to portion
Dogs that are fine with grain. Brown rice is the carbohydrate here
Rotation, since one build carries all four recipes and only the animals change
Any size of dog. The label's guide runs from 1kg up to 45kg and beyond

Worth watching

Brown rice in all four, so no use for a grain-free plan
Chicken is in every recipe and salmon in three. Neither is easy to keep out of the bowl
Blocks need freezer room and a night in the fridge to thaw

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

How this scores

How we score

81.5/100Outstanding

Protein and processingOutstanding

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueOutstanding

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults of every size. When moving between recipes, get the scales out: energy runs from 130 to 165 kcal per 100g, so portions change with it.

Food type

Raw

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Beef

The score, in context

Beef 81.5
Tripe 80.8
Chicken 79.4
Lamb 77.6

Four recipes across Outstanding and Excellent. Typical raw food: Outstanding.

The four sit close enough that your dog's tastes should choose, and what distance there is comes from the forty per cent that is not meat.

What's in it

Beef30%Named, and split evenly with the chicken.
Chicken30%
Brown rice16%The ingredient that defines the range. A whole grain, so fibre and B vitamins come with the starch.
Peas8%A little plant protein and fibre.
Carrots, swede5% eachThe vegetable work.
Pea fibreThe quiet binder that holds the mince together in the block.
Sunflower oilOn this label alone.
MineralsPrinted dose by dose, with selenium as a selenised yeast, the organic form.
Yucca, green teaYucca is there for stool odour; green tea brings antioxidants.

Added per kg: vitamin A 1,000 IU, vitamin D3 100 IU, vitamin E 14 mg, zinc 18.3 mg, iron 6 mg, copper 1.8 mg, iodine 0.26 mg and selenium 0.02 mg.

The only block without salmon, which puts it within reach of a dog kept away from fish.

Named ingredients

Beef 30%, Chicken 30%, Brown Rice 16%, Peas 8%, Carrots 5%, Swede 5%, Pea Fibre, Sunflower Oil, Minerals, Yucca, Green Tea

Against the range

Meat: Beef 30%, chicken 30%; Chicken leads or shares
Salmon: None; 5% on the other three
Energy: 165 kcal per 100g; 130 to 159

The one for a dog kept off fish.

All four share one build: named meat and fish to 60%, then brown rice, peas at 8%, carrots and swede at 5% apiece, and a short tail of pea fibre, minerals, yucca and green tea. Brown rice sits between 16% and 19%, so none of the blocks is grain free. Chicken is in every recipe and salmon in three.

The mineral panel is the same on each label and printed per kilo. Protein converts to between 32.4% and 37.9% of dry matter, and energy runs from 130 to 165 kcal per 100g.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

165 kcal/100g

Protein

12%

Fat

Fibre

Ash

Moisture

67%

Dry weight

Protein

36.4%

Fat

27.3%

Fibre

Ash

6.1%

Carbs

27.2%

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

60%

Carbs

27.4%

Veg

10%

Oils

1.1%

Other

1.5%

Pricing & size