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Nourish 80/20 Grain Free: Chicken With Turkey, Pollock, Salmon & Sweet Potato review

Name: Nourish 80/20 Grain Free: Chicken With Turkey, Pollock, Salmon & Sweet Potato
Brand: Nourish

78.3/100Excellent

DryPuppyAdult

Flavour

The meat-heavy end of what Nourish makes, with the arithmetic spelled out on the back of the bag. Every recipe declares 80% animal content and the joint pack arrives with real doses. The chicken and the duck reach our Excellent band, and the all-fish salmon reaches Outstanding.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Owners who like to see where the 80% comes from
Grain-free homes, with sweet potato, tapioca, lentils and chickpeas taking the starch
Hard-working and permanently busy dogs, at 42.4% protein on a dry matter basis
Older dogs feeling their joints
Dogs that must avoid land meats: every animal in the salmon recipe is a fish
Rotation feeders, with one frame and three sets of animals

Worth watching

Several species in every recipe, so none suits an elimination trial
Pollock and salmon in the chicken recipe; the duck is the fish-free one
Rich, energy-dense recipes, so a gentle dog needs smaller portions

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

How this scores

How we score

78.3/100Excellent

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueExcellent

The details

Dog fit

Listed for puppies, adults and seniors of every size. Calcium differs across the three, so for a large breed puppy read the figure for the recipe you plan to feed.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Puppy, Adult, Senior

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

Salmon 81.8
Duck 78.5
Chicken 78.3

Three recipes across Outstanding and Excellent. Typical dry food: Good.

The chicken and the duck finish within a hair of each other and the salmon a little ahead, so choose on the animal.

What's in it

Freshly prepared chicken45%Largely water, which cooking takes away.
Dried chicken, dried turkey9% and 8%The dry backbone.
Freshly prepared pollock, turkey, salmon8%, 4% and 4%Fish in a chicken recipe.
Chicken stock2%
Sweet potato10.5%Leads the 18% vegetable medley.
Tapioca, beet pulp, lentils, chickpeasTapioca is starch and not much else; beet pulp is the fibre the prebiotics work on.
Dried carrot, spinach, pumpkin
Linseed, MOS, FOS260 mg/kg each for MOS and FOSFood for the friendly gut bacteria.
Joint pack: glucosamine, MSM, chondroitin sulphate178, 178 and 125 mg/kgReal doses beside each name.
Yucca, apple, seaweed, marigold, cranberry, herbs, camomile, burdock, green tea, ginseng and moreThe flourish. All at trace level.

Zinc at 112 mg, partly as a chelate, iron partly chelated, methionine at 1,106 mg and L-carnitine at 48 mg per kilo.

Calcium works out at 1.63% of dry matter, the highest in the range. Weigh that before bringing up a large breed puppy on it.

Pollock and salmon sit alongside the birds, so this is not the bag for a fish-avoiding dog.

Named ingredients

80% Chicken, Turkey, Pollock, & Salmon: Freshly Prepared Chicken (45%), Dried Chicken (9%), Dried Turkey (8%), Freshly Prepared Pollock (8%), Freshly Prepared Turkey (4%), Freshly Prepared Salmon (4%), Chicken Stock (2%).18% Vegetable Medley: Sweet Potato (10.5%), Tapioca, Beet Pulp, Lentils, Chickpeas, Dried Carrot, Dried Spinach, Dried Pumpkin. Minerals: Linseed, Mannanoligosaccharides (MOS, 260 mg/kg), Fructooligosaccharides (FOS, 260 mg/kg), Joint Pack (Glucosamine 178 mg/kg, Methylsulfonylmethane 178 mg/kg, Chondroitin Sulphate 125 mg/kg), Yucca Schidegera Extract, Dried Apple, Dried Seaweed, Dried Marigold, Dried Cranberry, Mixed Herbs (Oregano, Sage, Thyme, Parsley and Marjoram), Dried Camomile, Burdock Root, Aniseed & Fenugreek, Dried Peppermint, Green Tea Extract, Dried Dandelion, Dried Bilberry, Ginseng.

Against the range

Animals: Chicken, turkey, pollock, salmon; Duck has no fish; salmon has only fish
Fat, dry matter: 15.8%; Leanest; the others are 19.6%
Calcium, dry matter: 1.63%; Highest; 1.3% and 1.52% on the others
Zinc: 112 mg per kilo; 77 mg on the others

The lean bag of the three, best kept for adults and smaller pups.

Each recipe declares 80% animal content with every species given its own percentage, mostly freshly prepared and backed by a dried share. An 18% vegetable medley led by sweet potato sits behind it, with no cereal and no white potato.

Protein converts to 42.4% of dry matter in all three and carbohydrate to between 26.6% and 29.8%. The joint pack, the prebiotics and the trace minerals all carry printed doses, and a long trace-level tail of botanicals closes every list.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

382 kcal/100g

Protein

39%

Fat

14.5%

Fibre

Ash

Moisture

Dry weight

Protein

42.4%

Fat

15.8%

Fibre

3.3%

Ash

8.7%

Carbs

29.8%

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

100%

Pricing & size