Natures Menu

Natures Menu Raw Boost: With Trout review

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

43.6/100Average

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

43.6/100Average

Protein and processingPoor

Nutritional balanceAverage

TransparencyExcellent

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

Fish

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

Pea starch
Trout13%Fish is the whole of the named meat.
Dehydrated peas, dehydrated potato
Dehydrated trout proteins
Pea proteinPlant protein, so not all of the panel figure is animal.
LardPork, in a fish recipe.
White fish, salmon
Linseed, hydrolysed pea protein, maize oil
Chicory root concentrate0.8%
Minerals, lignocellulose, spirulina, pineapple stem concentrate

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.

Lard is the fat, so this fish recipe is not pork free.

Named ingredients

Pea starch, trout* 13%, dehydrated peas*, dehydrated potato, dehydrated trout proteins, pea protein, lard, white fish*, linseed*, hydrolysed pea protein, maize oil, minerals, salmon*, dried chicory root concentrate (source of inulin)* 0.8%, lignocellulose, spirulina (Arthrospira platensis)* 0.1%, dried pineapple stem concentrate*. *Natural ingredients.

Against the range

Animals on the label: Trout, white fish, salmon, plus lard; Pork and lamb on the Pork; poultry-led on the other two
Plant protein: Pea protein and hydrolysed pea protein; Hydrolysed pea protein only on the Pork
Protein and processing: Poor; Average or Good on the other three

The fish bag for a dog that does better on fish, provided pork is not a problem.

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

370 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

25.5%

Fat

14.5%

Fibre

Ash

Moisture

Dry weight

Protein

26.8%

Fat

15.3%

Fibre

3.2%

Ash

7.4%

Carbs

47.3%

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

24.3%

Carbs

71.6%

Veg

0.9%

Oils

2.1%

Other

1.1%

Pricing & size