Natures Menu

Natures Menu Complete & Balanced 80/20 Nuggets: Chicken review

Name: Natures Menu Complete & Balanced 80/20 Nuggets: Chicken
Brand: Natures Menu

89.9/100Outstanding

RawAdult

Flavour

The widest raw range Natures Menu makes, and all eleven recipes sit in our Outstanding band. What sets it apart is the larder: rabbit, venison, goose, pork and duck beside the familiar beef and chicken. Every recipe is frozen into nuggets you count into the bowl.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Dogs on an elimination trial, with five recipes keeping to one named animal
A dog that needs something it has never eaten
Owners who portion by the nugget
Rotation feeders. Every recipe shares one build and only the animal really changes
Dogs kept off grain

Worth watching

Pairs named for the second animal: chicken leads the Duck and the Salmon, turkey leads the Goose and the Rabbit
Two fish species in the Fish recipe
Nuggets thaw fast, so take out a day's worth and keep raw handling clean

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

How this scores

How we score

89.9/100Outstanding

Protein and processingOutstanding

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueOutstanding

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adult dogs of every size. Before an exclusion trial, check which animal leads the label you are buying, not the one in the name.

Food type

Raw

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

Beef 91.2
Goose 90.8
Duck 90.6
Turkey 90.5
Farm Reared Turkey 90.3
Salmon 90.3
Rabbit 90.0
Chicken 89.9
Pork 89.5
Lamb 89.2
Fish 81.8

All 11 Outstanding. Typical raw food: Outstanding.

Reaching the top band eleven times over in the strongest category we cover is the real result here, with the Beef just ahead.

What's in it

Chicken80%The only animal.
Carrot, swede5%, 4%
Apple3%
Peas, spinach, blackberry2%, 1%, 1%The longest plant list in the range.
Chicory1%Prebiotic inulin.
Pea fibre, minerals
Yeast products0.016%A source of prebiotic MOS and beta glucans.
Yucca, green tea

Vitamins and trace minerals printed per kilo, zinc and iron as sulphates and selenium as selenised yeast, not a plain salt.

Named ingredients

Chicken 80%, Carrot 5%, Swede 4%, Apple 3%, Peas 2%, Spinach 1%, Blackberry 1%, Chicory 1%, Pea Fibre, Minerals, Yeast Products (as a source of prebiotic MOS and beta glucans) (0.016%), Yucca, Green Tea

Against the range

Fat, dry matter: 25.0%; The leanest; up to 39.3% elsewhere
Energy: 133 kcal per 100g; 120 to 163 across the range
Plant list: Seven entries; Shorter on the rest

The lean recipe of the eleven, a sensible pick for a dog carrying a bit of extra weight.

Every recipe follows one rule: 80% named meat or fish, a fruit at 4% and a short vegetable fraction, then yucca, green tea, added minerals, pea fibre and a trace of yeast product. Nothing is grain. Five recipes keep to one animal; the rest pair two, and turkey or chicken leads most of the pairs.

The fruit changes with the animal and chicory turns up on three labels. Protein runs from 37.5% to 43.3% of dry matter and fat from 25.0% to 39.3%, a wide spread for recipes that read so alike.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

133 kcal/100g

Protein

12%

Fat

Fibre

Ash

2.5%

Moisture

72%

Dry weight

Protein

42.9%

Fat

25%

Fibre

3.6%

Ash

8.9%

Carbs

19.6%

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

80%

Carbs

3.8%

Veg

14%

Other

2.2%

Pricing & size