Natures Menu

Natures Menu Country Hunter 80%: Wild Venison with Superfoods review

Name: Natures Menu Country Hunter 80%: Wild Venison with Superfoods
Brand: Natures Menu

87/100Outstanding

RawAdult

A single-animal raw block with venison at 80%, the kind of label owners go looking for once the common meats have all been tried. It sits in our Outstanding band. Deer is about as far from the supermarket meats as British pet food gets, and nothing else animal is on the list to muddy an exclusion trial.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Exclusion diets: venison is the only animal named
Dogs that have had trouble with chicken or beef
Grain-free homes, with fruit and vegetables behind the meat
Any size, from a 1kg toy dog up to 45kg and beyond
Owners happy to defrost and portion a 500g block by hand

Worth watching

Crude ash at 14.1% of dry matter, high for a raw mince, with no calcium figure to explain it
One recipe, so a rotation needs another Natures Menu line
Frozen: a night in the fridge to thaw, and clean bowls and hands

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

How this scores

How we score

87/100Outstanding

Protein and processingOutstanding

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueOutstanding

The details

Dog fit

An adult food for any size of dog. The guide puts a 10kg to 25kg dog at 395 to 790 grams a day, so thaw a block and weigh the first portions.

Food type

Raw

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Venison

The score, in context

Wild Venison 87.0

All one Outstanding. Typical raw food: Outstanding.

It holds the standard of the strongest category we cover without clearing it by a distance, carried by the 80% venison and a label that names everything worth naming.

What's in it

Venison80%The only animal. Easy to digest, and most dogs have no history with it.
Blueberry4%Antioxidants.
Swede, carrots4% eachGentle fibre and beta carotene.
Peas, spinach2%, 1%
Pea fibre
Sunflower oilFor vitamin E and fatty acids.
MineralsDosed per kilo. No bone is named in the composition.
Yucca, green teaAs across the Natures Menu range.

Zinc, iron, copper and iodine itemised per kilo beside vitamins A, D3 and E, and selenium as an inactivated selenised yeast.

Crude ash reads 14.1% of dry matter and no calcium figure is printed to account for it.

Named ingredients

Venison 80%, Blueberry 4%, Swede 4%, Carrots 4%, Peas 2%, Spinach 1%, Pea Fibre, Sunflower Oil, Minerals, Yucca, Green Tea

Against the range

One raw recipe, venison at 80% and no other animal on the list: no fish oil, egg or unnamed fat. The remaining fifth is fruit and vegetables, led by blueberry, swede and carrots at 4% each. Minerals are added and dosed, and no bone or calcium figure appears on the label.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

156 kcal/100g

Protein

14%

Fat

10%

Fibre

Ash

4.5%

Moisture

68%

Dry weight

Protein

43.8%

Fat

31.2%

Fibre

3.1%

Ash

14.1%

Carbs

7.8%

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

4.8%

Veg

Oils

0.9%

Other

5.2%

Pricing & size