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Natures Menu Complete & Balanced Puppy 80/20: Turkey & Fish review

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

89.2/100Outstanding

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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

89.2/100Outstanding

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

Turkey

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

Turkey40%
Salmon, white fish20% eachMarine oils front and centre. The white fish is not named to species.
Sweet potato10%
Peas, spinach2% each
Pea fibre, minerals
Yeast products, yucca, green tea0.016%

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

Turkey 40%, Salmon 20%, White Fish 20%, Sweet Potato 10%, Peas 2%, Spinach 2%, Pea Fibre, Minerals, Yeast Products (as a source of prebiotic MOS and beta glucans) (0.016%), Yucca, Green Tea

Against the range

Meat: Turkey 40%, salmon 20%, white fish 20%; Beef 80%, or chicken 70% with salmon 10%.
Fish: 40% of the recipe; 10% on the Chicken with Salmon, none on the Beef.
Energy: 169 kcal per 100g; Between 160 and 189.

The one to pick for marine oils in a grain-free puppy bowl.

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

169 kcal/100g

Protein

13%

Fat

11%

Fibre

Ash

2.5%

Moisture

68%

Dry weight

Protein

40.6%

Fat

34.4%

Fibre

3.1%

Ash

7.8%

Carbs

14.1%

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

Other

2.4%

Pricing & size