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Nood Dry: Cage- Free Chicken Recipe review

Name: Nood Dry: Cage- Free Chicken Recipe
Brand: Nood

58/100Good

DryPuppyAdult

Flavour

Nood Dry is a pair of everyday kibbles that lead with a named fresh meat and then let pork do a good deal of the lifting. Both come out in our Good band. The small print is more considered than the front of the bag suggests, with a named gut culture, chicory root and a dosed vitamin and mineral panel.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Homes with dogs of different ages. Puppy, adult and senior all sit on the one label
Dogs that get along well with cereal
Dogs new to pork, still an unfamiliar meat for most British dogs
Owners who like a gut culture named on the panel
Older dogs, with glucosamine and chondroitin on the list

Worth watching

Dried pork does more of the work than the animal on the front
Salmon oil in both, and a hydrolysed poultry protein that names no bird
Barley, so not for a dog kept off gluten
No calcium figure, on a label that lists puppies

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

How this scores

How we score

58/100Good

Protein and processingAverage

Nutritional balanceAverage

TransparencyGood

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Listed for puppies, adults and seniors of every size. The table asks 226 to 380 grams a day for a dog between 10kg and 19kg; where it and the waistline disagree, go by the waistline.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Puppy, Adult, Senior

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

Cage- Free Chicken Recipe 58.0
Grass-Fed Beef 57.5

All two Good. Typical dry food: Good.

Nothing separates the two, and the detail work in the small print is what lifts a straight everyday kibble into Good.

What's in it

Fresh chicken14%Mostly water before the oven.
Dehydrated pork proteinAlready dry and concentrated. The entry that really shapes the kibble.
Maize, barleyBarley carries gluten.
Whole peas, split peas10%Starch, some fibre, a little plant protein.
Hydrolysed poultry proteinNames no bird.
Pork fatKept fresh with mixed tocopherols.
Dried beet pulp, oats, dehydrated chicken proteinOats only on this bag.
Salmon oil, linseed0.5%, 0.25%The omega 3 sources; fish small but real.
Dried chicory root, dried brewer's yeastInulin and FOS; B vitamins.
Blueberry to peppermint, glucosamine, chondroitin0.01% eachThe garden is seasoning; the joint pair carries no figure.

Dosed all the way down, L-carnitine at 145 mg and zinc at 62.5 mg per kilo, every trace mineral as a sulphate, plus a live Enterococcus faecium culture.

Calcium is not declared, on a label that lists puppies.

Named ingredients

Fresh Chicken (14%), Dehydrated Pork Protein, Maize, Barley, Whole Peas (10%), Split Peas, Hydrolyzed Poultry Protein, Pork Fat (preserved with Mixed Tocopherols), Dried Beet Pulp, Oats, Dehydrated Chicken Protein, Salmon Oil (0.5%), Dried Chicory Root (a natural source of FOS and Inulin), Linseed (0.25%), Dried Brewer's Yeast, Blueberry (0.01%), Sweet Potato (0.01%), Carrot (0.01%), Spinach (0.01%), Green Peas (0.01%), Apple (0.01%), Turmeric (0.01%), Althea, Peppermint (0.01%), Glucosamine Hydrochloride, Chondroitin Sulfate. Additives (per kg): Vitamins: Vitamin A 3a672a: 15000 IU, Vitamin D3 3a671: 1 500 IU, Vitamin E 3a700: 101 mg, L-Carnitine (3a910): 145 mg. Trace Elements: Iron (Iron sulphate monohydrate) 3b103: 50 mg, Iodine (Calcium iodate anhydrous) 3b202: 1.5 mg, Copper (Copper sulphate pentahydrate) 3b405: 10.0 mg, Manganese (Manganese sulphate monohydrate) 3b503:10.0 mg, Zinc (Zinc sulphate monohydrate) 3b605: 62.5 mg, Selenium (Sodium selenite) 3b801: 0.20 mg. Binders: Sepiolite 350 mg. Gut Flora Stabilizer: Enterococcus faecium NCIMB 10415 109 cfu. Antioxidants: (Natural) tocopherol extracts from vegetable oil.

Against the range

Fresh meat: Chicken 14%; Beef 14% on the other bag.
Oats: On the list; Absent from the beef.
Energy: 361 kcal per 100g; 347, estimated, on the beef.

The more energy-dense of the two, with oats joining the cereals.

Both bags open with a fresh meat at 14%, chicken or beef, and dehydrated pork protein follows straight behind to do much of the finished protein work. Maize, barley, whole peas at 10% and split peas carry the starch, with pork fat as the main fat and salmon oil at 0.5% in both.

The analysis is the same on each: protein at 27.5% of dry matter and carbohydrate at 44.1%. Hydrolysed poultry protein and dehydrated chicken protein appear on both lists, and the garden tail is declared at 0.01% an item.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

360.6 kcal/100g

Protein

25%

Fat

14%

Fibre

Ash

7.8%

Moisture

Dry weight

Protein

27.5%

Fat

15.4%

Fibre

4.4%

Ash

8.6%

Carbs

44.1%

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

46.8%

Carbs

49.9%

Veg

0.4%

Oils

2.1%

Other

0.8%

Pricing & size