Natures Menu

Natures Menu Raw Boost: With Fresh Chicken review

Name: Natures Menu Raw Boost: With Fresh Chicken
Brand: Natures Menu

45.3/100Average

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

45.3/100Average

Protein and processingAverage

Nutritional balanceAverage

TransparencyGood

ValueAverage

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

Chicken

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

Fresh chicken21%Loses its water in baking, so it counts for less than its place suggests.
Dehydrated poultry proteinsUnnamed birds, carrying more of the kibble than the chicken does.
Maize, maize meal, barley
Dehydrated peas, rice
Animal fat (poultry fat, lard)
Hydrolysed animal proteins (poultry, pork, fish)
Beet pulp, maize protein, linseed
Minerals, maize oil
LignocellulosePurified plant fibre for bulk.
Macroalgae, chicory root concentrate, spirulina0.36% down to 0.1%

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.

Hydrolysed proteins from poultry, pork and fish rule it out of a strict elimination trial.

Named ingredients

Fresh chicken* 21%, dehydrated poultry proteins, maize*, maize meal*, barley*, dehydrated peas*, rice*, animal fat (poultry fat, lard)*, hydrolysed animal proteins (poultry, pork, fish), beet pulp*, maize protein, linseed*, minerals, maize oil, macroalgae (Ulva lactuca, Ascophyllum nodosum, Gracilaria spp)* 0.36%, lignocellulose, dried chicory root concentrate (source of inulin)* 0.2%, spirulina (Arthrospira platensis)* 0.1%. *Natural ingredients.

Against the range

Lead entry: Fresh chicken, 21%; Poultry proteins lead the Beef; pea starch the other two
Analysis: Protein 26%, fat 16%; Matches the Beef; 25.5% and 14.5% on the other two
Maize: Four forms; Maize oil only on the Pork and Trout

Same panel as the Beef, held a band lower by how much of its protein goes unnamed.

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

50.4%

Carbs

47.5%

Veg

0.3%

Oils

1.1%

Other

0.7%

Pricing & size