Natures Menu

Natures Menu Raw Boost: With Beef review

Name: Natures Menu Raw Boost: With Beef
Brand: Natures Menu

50.7/100Good

DryAdult

Flavour

Four dry recipes under one name, and the bags differ more than the name suggests. Two lean on maize and unnamed poultry proteins; the pork and lamb and the trout swap cereal for pea starch and potato. The beef and the pork and lamb sit in our Good band, the trout and the chicken a step behind in Average.

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Our view

Likely to suit

A dog that has tried everything: pork leads one recipe and trout another
Dogs that do better on fish, with trout at 13% and white fish and salmon behind
Avoiding cereal. The pork and lamb and the trout carry maize only as oil
Active dogs, with fat at 16% in the beef and chicken
Owners who like the gut extras declared

Worth watching

Beef at 7.5% in the beef bag, with most of the protein from poultry
Hydrolysed poultry, pork and fish proteins in the beef and chicken, so neither anchors an elimination trial
Lard in the trout recipe

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

How this scores

How we score

50.7/100Good

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceAverage

TransparencyAverage

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adult dogs of every size. Read the ingredient list of the exact bag you pick up, since the four are built differently.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Beef

The score, in context

With Beef 50.7
With Pork 50.0
With Fresh Chicken 45.3
With Trout 43.6

Four recipes across Good and Average. Typical dry food: Good.

The spread across two bands comes from how much of the protein is named, not from anything on the panel.

What's in it

Dehydrated poultry proteinsLeads the bag. Most of the protein here comes from birds.
Maize, fresh chicken, maize meal
Beef7.5%The named meat, well down the order.
Barley, dehydrated peas, rice
Animal fat (poultry fat, lard)
Hydrolysed animal proteins (poultry, pork, fish)Three animals in one entry.
Beet pulp, dehydrated pork proteins, maize protein, linseed
Minerals, maize oil
Macroalgae, chicory root concentrate, spirulina0.36% down to 0.1%Chicory supplies inulin, a prebiotic.

Vitamins A, D3 and E plus biotin at 1 mg, with trace minerals as sulphates, the everyday choice; zinc and iron are the largest entries.

Beef is 7.5%; poultry, pork and fish all appear too, so this reads as a poultry food with beef in it.

Named ingredients

Dehydrated poultry proteins, maize*, fresh chicken*, maize meal*, beef* 7.5%, barley*, dehydrated peas*, rice*, animal fat (poultry fat, lard)*, hydrolysed animal proteins (poultry, pork, fish), beet pulp*, dehydrated pork proteins, maize protein, linseed*, minerals, maize oil, macroalgae (Ulva lactuca, Ascophyllum nodosum, Gracilaria spp)* 0.36%, dried chicory root concentrate (source of inulin)* 0.2%, spirulina (Arthrospira platensis)* 0.1%. *Natural ingredients.

Against the range

Lead entry: Dehydrated poultry proteins; Fresh chicken on the Chicken; pea starch on the Pork and Trout
Animals on the label: Poultry, beef, pork, fish; Pork and lamb only on the Pork; fish plus lard on the Trout
Lignocellulose: None; In the other three

Just ahead of the range on our scoring, but buy it knowing the protein is mostly poultry.

Four dry recipes that share a name and not much else. The beef and the chicken are cereal-led, built on maize and barley with dehydrated poultry proteins supplying much of the protein. The pork and lamb and the trout lead on pea starch and dehydrated potato, with no cereal beyond maize oil.

Chicory root concentrate runs through all four, at 0.2% in the cereal-led pair and 0.8% in the other two, with spirulina at 0.1% on every list. Lignocellulose appears in three. The analyses are close, and the mineral panel is the same on every bag.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

377.5 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

26%

Fat

16%

Fibre

Ash

Moisture

Dry weight

Protein

27.4%

Fat

16.8%

Fibre

3.2%

Ash

7.4%

Carbs

45.2%

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

55.3%

Carbs

43.1%

Veg

0.3%

Oils

0.8%

Other

0.5%

Pricing & size