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

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

82.2/100Outstanding

RawAdult

Flavour

Natures Menu's blocks made easier to live with: the same 60% named meat and fish, pressed into small frozen nuggets you count into a bowl. Brown rice and vegetables fill out the rest. One recipe, built on tripe with chicken heart and liver, brings a genuine organ share.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Feeding little and often. Count out and thaw exactly what a meal needs
Dogs easing into raw, as rice and vegetables make the change less abrupt
Dogs that thrive on offal, through the tripe, heart and liver recipe
Rotation feeders, with six recipes built to one pattern
Multi-dog homes. One guide runs from 1kg to 45kg and over

Worth watching

Brown rice in all six, so no grain-free option here
Salmon in five recipes and chicken on every label, so neither is easy to keep out
Quick thawing, so take out a day at a time and keep raw handling tidy

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

How this scores

How we score

82.2/100Outstanding

Protein and processingOutstanding

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueOutstanding

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults of every size. Energy differs across the six, so glance at the portion when you move between recipes.

Food type

Raw

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Beef

The score, in context

Beef 82.2
Tripe 81.4
Tripe 79.3
Lamb 78.3
Chicken 77.8
Fish 76.8

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

A tight spread, so the animals should decide it; the brown rice is why most of the range sits fractionally under the raw norm.

What's in it

Beef30%
Chicken30%
Brown rice16%The lowest rice share in the range. A whole grain, with fibre and B vitamins.
Peas8%
Carrots, swede5% each
Pea fibre, sunflower oil, minerals
Yucca, green tea

Vitamins A, D3 and E with zinc, iron, copper and iodine itemised per kilo, and selenium from an inactivated selenised yeast, the organic form.

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

Fish: None; Salmon is in the other five.
Energy: 165 kcal per 100g; The richest nugget; the Chicken with Salmon is 130.
Protein, dry matter: 36.4%; 32.4% to 36.7% across the six.

The recipe for a dog kept away from salmon, and one of two to reach our top band.

Every recipe follows one pattern: named meat and fish to 60%, brown rice at 16% to 19%, peas at 8%, then carrots and swede at 5% apiece. Pea fibre, minerals, yucca and green tea close each list, and percentages are printed against everything worth printing them against.

What varies is the animals. Salmon is in five of the six and chicken is on every label. Read as dry matter, protein runs from 32.4% to 36.7% and fat from 18.2% to 27.3%, with energy 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