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Natures Menu Complete & Balanced Puppy 80/20: Chicken with Salmon review

Name: Natures Menu Complete & Balanced Puppy 80/20: Chicken with Salmon
Brand: Natures Menu

84.3/100Outstanding

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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

84.3/100Outstanding

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

Chicken

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

Chicken70%
Brown rice18%A decent whole grain, and the only grain in the range.
Salmon10%Fish in the bowl.
Minerals
Yeast products0.016%Prebiotic.
Yucca, green tea

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.

No vegetable on the list at all.

Named ingredients

Chicken 70%, Brown Rice 18%, Salmon 10%, Minerals, Yeast Products (as a source of prebiotic MOS and beta glucans) (0.016%), Yucca, Green Tea

Against the range

Plant side: Brown rice 18%; Sweet potato, peas and spinach on the others.
Energy: 189 kcal per 100g; The richest. 160 and 169 on the others.
Protein, dry matter: 37.5%; 40.6% and 41.9% on the others.

A shorter, plainer list, for a puppy that does well on grain.

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

189 kcal/100g

Protein

12%

Fat

11%

Fibre

Ash

Moisture

68%

Dry weight

Protein

37.5%

Fat

34.4%

Fibre

3.1%

Ash

6.2%

Carbs

18.8%

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

18%

Other

Pricing & size