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Natures Menu Delicious Pate Pouches: Chicken with Duck and Vegetables review

Name: Natures Menu Delicious Pate Pouches: Chicken with Duck and Vegetables
Brand: Natures Menu

74/100Excellent

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

74/100Excellent

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

Chicken

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

Chicken45%
Duck15%For a dog happy with poultry but bored of chicken alone.
Peas4%
Carrots4%
Rice2%For texture more than calories.
Minerals

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

Named ingredients

Chicken 45%, Duck 15%, Peas 4%, Carrots 4%, Rice 2%, Minerals

Against the range

Meat: Chicken 45%, duck 15%; Two animals on three of the four.
Carbohydrate, dry matter: 4.0%; The lowest; up to 8.3% on the beef.
Fat, dry matter: 28.5%; 26.5% on the chicken and turkey, 31.3% on the beef.

The lowest-starch pouch in the range, with a second bird for interest.

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

92 kcal/100g

Protein

10.2%

Fat

5.7%

Fibre

0.5%

Ash

2.8%

Moisture

80%

Dry weight

Protein

51%

Fat

28.5%

Fibre

2.5%

Ash

14%

Carbs

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

60%

Added water

18%

Carbs

Veg

Other

12%

Pricing & size