Natures Menu

Natures Menu Complete & Balanced Puppy 80/20: Beef review

Name: Natures Menu Complete & Balanced Puppy 80/20: Beef
Brand: Natures Menu

90.6/100Outstanding

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Flavour

Natures Menu points its 80/20 rule at growth: 80% named meat or fish in every recipe, complete and balanced for a puppy. All three reach our Outstanding band. The Chicken with Salmon is the odd one out, with brown rice where the others use sweet potato and greens.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Puppies moving onto raw, with no balancing of your own to do
Raising a puppy without grain, on the Beef or the Turkey and Fish
Marine oils early on. The Turkey and Fish pairs salmon with white fish
A big puppy, with a chart that runs up to a 40kg dog
A puppy kept to one animal, on the all-beef recipe

Worth watching

No calcium figure on any of the three, so ask the maker if you are raising a large breed
Brown rice in the Chicken with Salmon, and fish in two of the three
Large puppy portions in 1kg frozen packs, so freezer space matters

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

How this scores

How we score

90.6/100Outstanding

Protein and processingOutstanding

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueOutstanding

The details

Dog fit

Listed for puppies of every size. Put the calcium question to the maker before rearing a large breed, and follow the label's chart by weight and age.

Food type

Raw

Life stage

Puppy

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Beef

The score, in context

Beef 90.6
Turkey 89.2
Chicken 84.3

All three Outstanding. Typical raw food: Outstanding.

All three meet the standard of a very strong raw field, with the Chicken with Salmon a shade behind on the variety of its plant side.

What's in it

Beef80%The only animal on the list.
Sweet potato10%Steady energy, fibre and beta carotene.
Peas, spinach2% eachA small green fraction.
Pea fibreHelps the mince hold its shape.
Sunflower oil
Minerals
Yucca, green tea, yeast products0.016%The yeast is a prebiotic, for MOS and beta glucans.

Vitamins A, D3 and E with zinc, iron, copper and iodine itemised per kilo, and selenium from selenised yeast.

No calcium figure. Put it to the maker before rearing a large-breed puppy on it.

Named ingredients

Beef 80%, Sweet Potato 10%, Peas 2%, Spinach 2%, Pea Fibre, Sunflower Oil, Minerals, Yucca, Green TeaYeast Products (as a source of prebiotic MOS and beta glucans) (0.016%)

Against the range

Meat: Beef 80%, one animal; Two or three animals in the others.
Protein, dry matter: 41.9%; The highest. 37.5% on the Chicken with Salmon.
Energy: 160 kcal per 100g; The lightest. Up to 189 on the Chicken with Salmon.

For a puppy being kept to one animal, this is the recipe.

Every recipe is 80% named meat or fish. The Beef and the Turkey and Fish follow the adult 80/20 plan, with sweet potato at 10%, peas and spinach at 2% each and pea fibre. The Chicken with Salmon swaps all of that for brown rice at 18%.

Minerals are added and printed per kilo on all three, with selenium from an inactivated selenised yeast, but none prints a calcium figure. Protein converts to between 37.5% and 41.9% of dry matter and fat to between 32.3% and 34.4%.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

160 kcal/100g

Protein

13%

Fat

10%

Fibre

Ash

2.5%

Moisture

69%

Dry weight

Protein

41.9%

Fat

32.3%

Fibre

3.2%

Ash

8.1%

Carbs

14.5%

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

15.6%

Veg

Oils

1.2%

Other

1.3%

Pricing & size