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Nood Dry Healthy Weight: Cage-Free Chicken review

Name: Nood Dry Healthy Weight: Cage-Free Chicken
Brand: Nood

55/100Good

DryPuppyAdult

A weight recipe that does what it sets out to do. Nood took its everyday chicken kibble and rebuilt it for a dog carrying a little extra: fat down to 11%, fibre up from beet pulp and cellulose, and L-carnitine dosed at 200 mg per kilo. It lands in our Good band.

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Our view

Likely to suit

The dog the vet has started calling chunky
Dieting dogs that still need to feel fed. Beet pulp, cellulose and chicory root lift crude fibre to 4.5%
Dogs new to pork, which is the main protein behind the fresh chicken
Older dogs on shorter walks, with glucosamine and chondroitin both on the list
One bag across several ages: puppy, adult and senior are all on the label

Worth watching

Cellulose is purified fibre added as bulk, and it carries no energy at all
Salmon oil at 0.5%, so it is not fish free
An unnamed bird behind the hydrolysed poultry protein, which matters on a strict elimination plan
No calcium figure, though puppies are on the label

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

How this scores

How we score

55/100Good

Protein and processingAverage

Nutritional balanceAverage

TransparencyGood

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Listed for puppies, adults and seniors of every size. On a weight recipe, feed for the dog you want: the label asks 226 to 380 grams for a dog between 10kg and 19kg, so start from the target weight.

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 55.0

All one Good. Typical dry food: Good.

It earns its place by restraint: energy comes out of the bowl without the goodness going with it.

What's in it

Fresh chicken16%Mostly water, and the water goes in the oven.
Dehydrated pork proteinWhere most of the protein in the bowl comes from. Hardly any British dog food uses pork, so plenty of dogs have never eaten it.
Maize, barleyThe cereals.
Whole peas, split peas10%, undeclaredStarch, with a useful amount of fibre and a little plant protein.
Hydrolysed poultry proteinThe bird is not named.
Dried beet pulp, dried chicory root, celluloseThe weight-management fibre. Chicory brings inulin and FOS; cellulose is bulk a dog cannot digest.
Pork fatPreserved with mixed tocopherols, no synthetic antioxidant.
Salmon oil, linseed0.5%, 0.25%The omega 3.
Brewer's yeast, blueberry to peppermint0.01% each on the fruit and vegYeast for B vitamins. The fruit and vegetable tail is decoration more than nutrition.
Glucosamine hydrochloride, chondroitin sulphateListed at the end without doses.

L-carnitine at 200 mg per kilo, every trace mineral given a figure in sulphate form, and Enterococcus faecium declared as a live gut culture.

No calcium figure, though puppies appear on the label. A large-breed puppy owner is missing the number they most want.

Named ingredients

Fresh Chicken (16%), Dehydrated Pork Protein, Maize, Barley, Whole Peas (10%), Split Peas, Hydrolyzed Poultry Protein, Dried Beet Pulp, Pork Fat (preserved with Mixed Tocopherols), Salmon Oil (0.5%), Dried Chicory Root (a natural source of FOS and Inulin), Cellulose, 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 Sulphate. Additives (per kg): Vitamins: Vitamin A 3a672a: 15000 IU, Vitamin D3 3a671: 1500 IU, Vitamin E 3a700: 101 mg, L-Carnitine (3a910): 200 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

Fat is kept to 12.1% of dry matter and crude fibre lifted to 4.9%, with carbohydrate at 45.3% against the 46.2% typical of a dry food. The energy comes down to 342 kcal per 100g.

Price and value

Sold in 1.42kg and 3kg bags.

As a guide, a 15kg adult dog in moderate condition eats about 245 grams a day, working from around 840 kcal a day (110 × bodyweight^0.75, the standard maintenance estimate). The label asks 226 to 380 grams for a dog between 10kg and 19kg. On a weight recipe the honest answer is to feed for the dog you want, not the dog you have.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

342.2 kcal/100g

Protein

26%

Fat

11%

Fibre

4.5%

Ash

8.3%

Moisture

Dry weight

Protein

28.6%

Fat

12.1%

Fibre

4.9%

Ash

9.1%

Carbs

45.3%

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

47.3%

Carbs

48.9%

Veg

0.8%

Oils

1.5%

Other

1.5%

Pricing & size