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Natures Menu Complete & Balanced 60/40 Minced Block: Chicken with Salmon review

Name: Natures Menu Complete & Balanced 60/40 Minced Block: Chicken with Salmon
Brand: Natures Menu

79.4/100Excellent

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

79.4/100Excellent

Protein and processingOutstanding

Nutritional balanceExcellent

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueExcellent

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

Chicken

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

Chicken55%Carries the meat almost single-handed.
Brown rice19%Whole grain, so fibre and B vitamins come with the starch.
Peas8%
Salmon5%For its oils.
Carrots, swede5% each
Pea fibreBinds the mince in the block.
MineralsPrinted dose by dose, selenium as selenised yeast.
Yucca, green teaFor stool odour, and for 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.

Named ingredients

Chicken 55%, Brown Rice 19%, Peas 8%, Salmon 5%, Carrots 5%, Swede 5%, Pea Fibre, Minerals, Yucca, Green Tea

Against the range

Meat: Chicken 55%; Two meats elsewhere
Fat, dry matter: 20.7%, the leanest; Up to 27.3%
Energy: 130 kcal per 100g; Up to 165

Good for a dog inclined to put weight on.

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

130 kcal/100g

Protein

11%

Fat

Fibre

Ash

Moisture

71%

Dry weight

Protein

37.9%

Fat

20.7%

Fibre

3.4%

Ash

10.3%

Carbs

27.7%

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

28.8%

Veg

10%

Other

1.2%

Pricing & size