Natures Menu

Natures Menu Country Hunter Pouches: Duck with Superfoods review

Name: Natures Menu Country Hunter Pouches: Duck with Superfoods
Brand: Natures Menu

77/100Excellent

WetAdult

Flavour

Single-animal pouches that print exactly what the meat is made of, all four in our Excellent band. The lung, liver, heart or stomach is weighed inside the headline meat share. There is not a cereal on any label.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Dogs kept to one named animal
Owners who like the offal spelled out, each cut at its own percentage
Grain-avoiding homes
Rotation feeders with a dog that tires of one flavour
Poor drinkers. Three quarters or more of each serving is moisture

Worth watching

Energy runs from 87 to 131 kcal per 100g, so portions change when you switch
Spirulina at 0.5% and berries at 2% season the pouch more than feed it
The duck is built on a different plant list, so it is not a straight swap

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

How this scores

How we score

77/100Excellent

Protein and processingExcellent

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueExcellent

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adult dogs. Re-weigh the portion every time you change flavour, as the energy gap between recipes is wide.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Duck

The score, in context

Beef 77.7
Duck 77.0
Turkey 76.0
Chicken 74.7

All four Excellent. Typical wet food: Excellent.

Four pouches that match pillar for pillar, the shape of a range built to one recipe, with the duck keeping pace on less meat.

What's in it

Duck55%Five points below the others.
of which heart, neck, stomach4% eachNeck brings bone into the mix.
Plum, green beans3% each
Apples, swede, carrots2% each
Spinach1%
Minerals, dehydrated vegetal broth
Green tea and yucca extracts

Vitamins A, D3 and E with zinc, manganese, iodine and copper, all dosed.

A separate recipe under the range name: no sweet potato, berries or spirulina.

Named ingredients

Duck 55% inc. 4% heart, 4% neck, 4% stomach, Plum 3%, Green beans 3%, Apples 2%, Swede 2%, Carrots 2%, Spinach 1%, Minerals, dehydrated vegetal broth, green tea extract, yucca extract

Against the range

Meat: 55% duck; 60% in the other three.
Energy: 87 kcal per 100g; The lightest pouch; the beef is 131.
Plant list: Plum, green beans, apples, swede, carrots, spinach; Sweet potato, berries and spirulina elsewhere.

Keeps pace in Excellent on less meat, and suits a dog that needs the lightest pouch.

Each pouch is one animal: beef, chicken and turkey declared at 60% and duck at 55%, with the organs and trimmings weighed at 4% apiece inside that figure. No cereal appears on any label. Beef, chicken and turkey share a sweet potato, berry and spirulina base; the duck has its own plant list.

Yucca, green tea and rosemary extracts sit at trace level at the tail. The added panels are short and dosed, and vitamin A and copper come and go between flavours.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

87 kcal/100g

Protein

9.1%

Fat

Fibre

0.6%

Ash

2.4%

Moisture

81%

Dry weight

Protein

47.9%

Fat

26.3%

Fibre

3.2%

Ash

12.6%

Carbs

10%

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

55%

Added water

18.5%

Carbs

Veg

Other

16.5%

Pricing & size