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Natures Menu Delicious Pate Pouches: Beef with Tripe & Vegetables review

Name: Natures Menu Delicious Pate Pouches: Beef with Tripe & Vegetables
Brand: Natures Menu

75.9/100Excellent

WetAdult

Flavour

Four pate pouches built on one simple plan, and all four sit in our Excellent band. The plant list stops at three weighed entries. The beef pouch is the one to read twice, because its tripe names no species.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Dogs that would rather swallow dinner than chew it, often an older or smaller dog
Owners who want the animal share weighed, 60% on every pouch
A low-starch bowl. Estimated carbohydrate sits between 4.0% and 8.3% of dry matter
Rotation feeders: one construction, only the animals move
Offal lovers, with tripe at 20% in the beef pouch

Worth watching

Only the chicken pouch keeps to a single animal, so it is the only one for a strict elimination plan
Tripe with no species beside the beef, which leaves a beef-only diet unsupported

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

How this scores

How we score

75.9/100Excellent

Protein and processingExcellent

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueExcellent

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults of every size. A 15kg dog gets through several pouches a day, so check the daily amount before ordering.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Beef

The score, in context

Beef 75.9
Chicken 74.0
Chicken 73.7
Turkey 73.7

All four Excellent. Typical wet food: Excellent.

The beef sits a fraction ahead, and the four are close enough that the choice comes down to the animal your dog prefers.

What's in it

Beef40%The only named meat.
Tripe20%Dense in protein and fat and easy on the digestion. The species is not given.
Peas4%
Carrots4%
Rice2%For texture more than calories.

Vitamin D3 and E with zinc, manganese and iodine, all dosed per kilo.

Tripe usually comes from cattle, but sheep, goats, pigs and deer provide it too, so a beef-only diet is not guaranteed.

Named ingredients

Beef 40%, Tripe 20%, Peas 4%, Carrots 4%, Rice 2%

Against the range

Energy: 110 kcal per 100g; The richest; 91 to 92 on the others.
Fat, dry matter: 31.3%; 26.5% to 28.5% elsewhere.
Poultry: None; Chicken is in the other three.

The richest pouch, and the one for a household keeping poultry out.

Every pouch declares 60% animal content, one animal or two, and the rest is peas at 4%, carrots at 4% and rice at 2%. That is the whole list, all of it weighed.

In dry matter, protein runs from 47.0% to 52.0% and fat from 26.5% to 31.3%, with estimated carbohydrate between 4.0% and 8.3%. Only the animals change.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

110 kcal/100g

Protein

10.8%

Fat

7.2%

Fibre

0.7%

Ash

2.4%

Moisture

77%

Dry weight

Protein

47%

Fat

31.3%

Fibre

Ash

10.4%

Carbs

8.3%

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

70.3%

Added water

18%

Carbs

Veg

4.7%

Pricing & size