Natures Menu

Natures Menu Hearty Stew Cans: With Beef & Vegetables review

Name: Natures Menu Hearty Stew Cans: With Beef & Vegetables
Brand: Natures Menu

44.2/100Average

WetAdult

Flavour

Big 415g tins of soft stew, and the plainest-spoken labels Natures Menu puts out. They sit in our Average band because the label shows so little; nothing inside the tin is troubling. You are buying on a British maker's word.

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Our view

Likely to suit

A dog that has been cleaning the bowl on these for years. Nothing here needs to change that
Bigger dogs, where one large tin beats a handful of small pouches
Dogs that find richer wet food heavy going, with fat at a moderate 25.0% of dry matter
Rotating flavours for a bored dog, all on one base
Dogs that need moisture in the bowl

Worth watching

Only 4% of the animal content is named, so none of the five can anchor an elimination diet
Unnamed cereals, which can change between batches without the label changing
No declared energy figure. The 87 kcal per 100g is our estimate

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

How this scores

How we score

44.2/100Average

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyGood

ValueAverage

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults of every size. The label's guide for a 10 to 25kg dog is 625 grams a day, well below our estimate, so let the waistline set the bowl.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Beef

The score, in context

With Salmon 44.5
With Beef 44.2
With Chicken 44.2
With Lamb 44.2
With Turkey 44.2

All five Average. Typical wet food: Excellent.

Nutritional balance reads Outstanding, and the distance below the typical wet food is almost entirely about how little the label declares. None of it is a safety verdict.

What's in it

Meat and animal derivatives (beef)4% beefOnly the beef is named. The rest can be any warm-blooded land animal.
CerealsNot named, and free to change between batches.
Dried peas0.36%Equal to 3.2% fresh. Weighed to two decimal places, the most precise line on the tin.
Dried carrots0.09%Equal to 0.8% fresh.
Minerals
Derivatives of vegetable originAlmost anything processed from a plant.

A short panel, every entry dosed: vitamins A, D3 and E with copper, zinc, manganese and iodine, the same in all five.

Named ingredients

BEEF: Meat and animal derivatives (4% beef), cereals, vegetables (0.36% dried peas, equivalent to 3.2% fresh peas and 0.09% dried carrots, equivalent to 0.8% fresh carrots), minerals, derivatives of vegetable origin.

Against the range

Named animal: Beef, 4%; Chicken, lamb, salmon or turkey at the same 4%.
Analysis: Protein 40.0%, fat 25.0% of dry matter; Identical on all five.

Pick beef on what your dog enjoys; the tin is the same underneath.

Each tin names one animal at 4% and writes the rest in legal category terms: meat and animal derivatives, cereals, derivatives of vegetable origin. Peas and carrots are declared to two decimal places. The salmon tin alone adds fish and fish derivatives to the land meat.

All five share one analysis and one additive panel. Protein converts to 40.0% of dry matter and fat to 25.0%. Estimated carbohydrate reaches 23.5%, against 15.8% for the typical adult wet food, which fits unnamed cereals second on the list.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

87 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

Fat

Fibre

0.3%

Ash

Moisture

80%

Dry weight

Protein

40%

Fat

25%

Fibre

1.5%

Ash

10%

Carbs

23.5%

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

41.4%

Added water

15%

Carbs

30.2%

Veg

8.9%

Other

4.5%

Pricing & size