92/100Outstanding
6 varieties
Natures Menu
Natures Menu Delicious Pate Pouches Light review
73.9/100Excellent
WetAdult
Natures Menu Delicious Pate Light is a smooth, lean pouch with chicken at 46% and rabbit at 14% ahead of a short tail of peas, carrots and a little rice. Six entries and the label is done. Fat converts to 16.3% of dry matter, which is where the light in the name earns its keep, while protein stays up at 51.6%, and the recipe sits comfortably in our Excellent band.
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Our view
Likely to suit
When the vet has asked you to take the calories down, the last thing you want is a smaller meal.
- Dogs on a weight-management plan, with fat converting to 16.3% of dry matter while the meat share stays where it is
- Owners who like a short label, this one running to six entries with a printed percentage on the four that matter
- Dogs meeting rabbit for the first time, since few dog foods use it and most dogs have never had it
- Hungry dogs on a diet, since a light recipe means a larger daily portion rather than a meaner one
- Adult dogs of any build, since one pouch covers the whole range from toy breeds to giants
Worth watching
The list is short, which makes what it does carry easy to check against your dog's needs.
- Two animals share the pouch, chicken and rabbit, and an elimination diet for a dog reacting to either needs a different anchor
- Rice sits on the list at 2%, worth knowing for a household keeping grain off the plate entirely
- Servings run large at 83 kcal per 100g against the 97 typical of adult wet food, and a pouch does not last long with a big dog
- The rabbit is the smaller of the two animals at 14%, so a dog being moved onto a novel protein is not being moved onto rabbit alone
Written by our editorial team. Independent guidance, not veterinary advice.
How this scores
How we score73.9/100Excellent
Protein and processingGood
Nutritional balanceOutstanding
TransparencyOutstanding
ValueExcellent
The Details
Dog fit
When the vet has asked you to take the calories down, the last thing you want is a smaller meal. The list is short, which makes what it does carry easy to check against your dog's needs.
Food type
Wet
Life stage
Adult
Breed size
Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant
Main protein
Chicken
The score, in context
This pouch earns a place in our Excellent band. The wet shelf scores well as a whole and its midpoint falls inside the same band. What you are looking at is a food holding its own in strong company. What lifts it is a declared 60% animal content paired with the lowest fat we see on a Natures Menu pate. A light recipe usually pays for its leanness in starch, and this one does not. Value comes back Excellent and protein and processing Good, while nutritional balance and transparency both read Outstanding.
What's in it
Ingredients, as declared: Chicken 46%, Rabbit 14%, Peas 4%, Carrots 4%, Rice 2%, Minerals
Named ingredients
Chicken 46%, Rabbit 14%, Peas 4%, Carrots 4%, Rice 2%, Minerals
Nutritional additives
_(the page labels this panel "Nutritional additives (Per Kg)")_ | Nutrient | Value | | --- | --- | | Vitamin D3 | 200iu | | Vitamin E | 20mg | | Zinc Sulphate Monohydrate | 25mg | | Manganese Sulphate Monohydrate | 1.4mg | | Copper (Ii) Sulphate Pentahydrate | 1mg | | Iodine ( As Calcium Iodate) | 0.75mg |
Ingredient notes
Chicken at 46% and rabbit at 14% add up to 60% of the pouch as named animal, each with its own printed figure. Rabbit is worth the attention. Lean and highly digestible, it is also used seldom enough in dog food that many dogs have never eaten it. Recipes written for sensitive dogs use it for exactly that reason.
The leanness here is real. Fat converts to 16.3% of dry matter, well down on what a wet pate normally carries, while protein stays high at 51.6%. For a dog who has weight to lose but still wants a full bowl, that combination is the useful part.
The rest is peas and carrots at 4% each, with rice at 2%. Estimated carbohydrate lands at 16.9% of dry matter against 15.8% for the typical adult wet food. The starch sits a shade above the category norm. Take fat out of a recipe and that is the usual trade.
Every entry on the short mineral panel carries a dose: vitamin D3 and vitamin E, then zinc, manganese, copper and iodine, each with a figure per kilo. Nothing here is doing anything clever, and on a light recipe that is exactly the point.
Price and value
£8.00 a kilo, sold in a single 300g pouch.
As a guide, a 15kg adult dog in moderate condition works out at around £8.10 a day, or roughly 1012 grams, on the usual maintenance estimate of about 840 kcal a day (110 × bodyweight^0.75). The label's own guide for a dog of 10 to 25kg is 600 grams a day, so the pack asks for rather less food than the energy sum does.
Nutritional analysis
Declared analysis
Energy
83 kcal/100g
Protein
9.8%
Fat
3.1%
Fibre
0.5%
Ash
2.4%
Moisture
81%
Dry weight
Protein
51.6%
Fat
16.3%
Fibre
2.6%
Ash
12.6%
Carbs
16.9%
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
6%
Veg
4%
Other
12%
Pricing & size
- Pack size
- 300G
- Retailer pricing
- Coming soon
Live retailer pricing is not yet available for this food. Prices, cost per day and where to buy will appear here once retailer data is live.
Ingredients and nutrition are taken from manufacturer data. Retailer pricing is not yet live for this food.
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