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Naturo Puppy Grain Free Dry review

Name: Naturo Puppy Grain Free Dry
Brand: Naturo

67.1/100Good

DryPuppy

A grain-free puppy kibble that is half chicken, and the label shows exactly how that 50% is built. Fresh chicken, chicken meat meal, chicken powder and chicken digest are each weighed. It lands in our Good band, with the starch and one vague fat holding it there.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Pups who do well on chicken, the only meat named on the list
Grain-free homes. Sweet potato at 26% and pea starch take the cereal's place
Owners who like to start joint care young: glucosamine, chondroitin and MSM are all on the label
A declared energy figure of 366 kcal per 100g, so portions are worked from a real number
FOS and MOS at 0.1% each for the gut

Worth watching

Poultry fat at 4% names no bird, so a strict exclusion diet cannot count this as chicken only
No calcium figure on the label. A large or giant breed puppy's owner should ask Naturo for it
Carbohydrate at an estimated 43.0% of dry matter, above the 39.0% typical for a puppy kibble

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

How this scores

How we score

67.1/100Good

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceGood

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Listed for puppies of every size, toy to giant. Read the feeding chart against your pup's current weight and expected adult size, and recheck it as they grow.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Puppy

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

Naturo Puppy Grain Free Dry 67.1

All one Good. Typical dry food: Good.

A fair middle-of-the-field puppy kibble, held back on protein and processing by its starch and an unnamed poultry fat.

What's in it

Fresh chicken25%Mostly water, so it shrinks a good deal in the oven.
Chicken meat meal, chicken powder18%, 5%Already dried, so nearly all of it reaches the kibble and does the real protein work.
Chicken digest2%A palatant, there for taste.
Sweet potato26%The largest single entry and the binder in place of grain.
Dried peas, dried sugar beet, pea starch5%Sugar beet pulp is a fibre source; the sugar is stripped out first.
Poultry fat4%A normal energy source, but poultry covers chicken, turkey and duck alike.
Dried carrot, whole linseed2% eachLinseed for plant omega 3.
Minerals, tomato pomace, seaweed meal
FOS, MOS0.1% eachPrebiotics for the gut bacteria.
Glucosamine, chondroitin, MSM, yucca extract, rosemary extractThe joint trio is present but undosed. Rosemary is the natural preservative.

Vitamins A, D3 and E, with zinc from both oxide and a chelate, iron, manganese, copper, iodine and selenium.

No calcium figure on the label. For a large or giant breed puppy, ask Naturo for it.

Named ingredients

Chicken 50% (Fresh Chicken 25%, Chicken Meat Meal 18%, Chicken Powder 5%, Chicken Digest 2%), Sweet Potato (26%), Dried Peas (5%), Dried Sugar Beet, Poultry Fat (4%), Pea Starch, Dried Carrot (2%), Whole Linseed (2%), Minerals, Tomato Pomace (0.5%), Seaweed Meal, Fructo-oligosaccharides (FOS) (0.1%), Mannan-oligosaccharides (MOS) (0.1%), Glucosamine, Chondroitin, MSM, Extract of Yucca Schidigera (0.02%), Rosemary Extract

Against the range

Half the recipe is chicken, itemised into four weighed forms, and sweet potato at 26% does the binding that cereal would. Moisture is not declared, so the dry-matter figures run on an assumed 8%.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

366 kcal/100g

Protein

28%

Fat

13%

Fibre

Ash

8.5%

Dry weight

Protein

30.4%

Fat

14.1%

Fibre

3.3%

Ash

9.2%

Carbs

43%

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%

Carbs

38.6%

Veg

3.3%

Oils

Other

4.2%

Pricing & size