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Natures Menu Delicious Pate Pouches Senior review

Name: Natures Menu Natures Menu Delicious Pate Pouches Senior
Brand: Natures Menu

75.5/100Excellent

WetAdultSenior

Natures Menu Delicious Pate Senior is a soft lamb-led pouch for older dogs, with lamb at 40% and chicken at 20% both weighed on the label, then rice, peas and carrots to round it off. It is a senior food that keeps protein high instead of thinning it out, converting 48.2% of dry matter as protein on a moderate 102 kcal per 100g, and it sits in our Excellent band.

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Our view

Likely to suit

An older dog eating a little less needs every mouthful to be worth taking.

Older dogs that still need real protein, with 48.2% of dry matter arriving as protein rather than being trimmed away for the sake of the word senior
Dogs with tired teeth or a fussy jaw, since a pate needs no work to eat
Red meat eaters, with lamb at the head of the recipe at 40%
Two dogs of different ages on one shelf, since the same pouch is written for adults and for older dogs
Owners who like a printed animal share, both meats here carrying their own percentage

Worth watching

Every maker reads the word senior its own way, so it is worth seeing what this pouch actually does.

Chicken sits inside a lamb-led recipe at 20%, so a dog avoiding poultry needs a different pouch even though lamb is the headline
Nothing in the added panel is aimed at joints, so an older dog already on a joint supplement should carry on with it alongside dinner
Rice at 4% puts this outside a strictly grain-free routine
At 102 kcal per 100g it is not a reduced-calorie recipe, so an older dog slowing down needs the portion watched

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

How this scores

How we score

75.5/100Excellent

Protein and processingExcellent

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueExcellent

The Details

Dog fit

An older dog eating a little less needs every mouthful to be worth taking. Every maker reads the word senior its own way, so it is worth seeing what this pouch actually does.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult, Senior

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Lamb

The score, in context

Our Excellent band is where this pouch finishes, and the adult wet shelf it is measured against has its midpoint in that same band. This is a food keeping pace with a category that scores well. The reasons are unfussy: two named meats carry the recipe with their shares printed, and estimated carbohydrate comes in at 11.3% of dry matter against 15.8% for typical adult wet food. The analysis stays protein-forward where a lot of senior recipes go soft. Protein and processing and value both read Excellent, with nutritional balance and transparency Outstanding.

What's in it

Ingredients, as declared: Lamb 40%, Rice 4%, Chicken 20%, Peas 4%, Carrots 4%

Named ingredients

Lamb 40%, Rice 4%, Chicken 20%, Peas 4%, Carrots 4%

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 | | Iodine (As Calcium Iodate) | 0.75mg |

Ingredient notes

Lamb at 40% and chicken at 20% carry the animal side of this pouch, each with its own printed figure. Lamb is easy on most dogs and reliably palatable, which matters more than usual when appetite has started to wander, and the chicken behind it lifts the protein without changing the character of the recipe.

One quirk in the printing is worth mentioning: rice appears second on the list at 4%, ahead of chicken at 20%, which is not the descending order an ingredients list normally follows. The percentages themselves are unambiguous, so the recipe is clear even where the running order is not.

The plant side is small and familiar. Rice, peas and carrots at 4% apiece bring the estimated carbohydrate to 11.3% of dry matter. That is comfortably under the 15.8% the typical adult wet food carries. Fat converts to 26.8% of dry matter, a normal and satisfying level for a wet pate.

The added panel covers vitamin D3, vitamin E, zinc, manganese and iodine, each printed with a dose. Copper is the one common entry missing from this label. On a diet where meat is doing most of the work that is not a gap to lose sleep over. It is still worth a mention to a vet who is already managing an older dog's minerals.

Price and value

£8.00 a kilo, in 300g pouches.

As a guide, a 15kg adult dog in moderate condition comes to around £6.59 a day, which is roughly 824 grams, working from about 840 kcal a day, the standard 110 × bodyweight^0.75 maintenance figure. The label's guide for a dog of 10 to 25kg is 500 grams a day.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

102 kcal/100g

Protein

10.6%

Fat

5.9%

Fibre

0.5%

Ash

2.5%

Moisture

78%

Dry weight

Protein

48.2%

Fat

26.8%

Fibre

2.3%

Ash

11.4%

Carbs

11.3%

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

69.3%

Added water

16.8%

Carbs

9.2%

Veg

4.6%

Pricing & size