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Nourish Grain Free Adult Large Breed: Salmon With Trout, Sweet Potato & Asparagus review

Name: Nourish Grain Free Adult Large Breed: Salmon With Trout, Sweet Potato & Asparagus
Brand: Nourish

65.9/100Good

DryAdult

Flavour

Nourish's grain-free kibble sized for a big dog, with the joint support a big dog eventually needs, and both bags sit in our Good band. Half of each recipe is salmon with trout, or turkey. Glucosamine, methylsulfonylmethane and chondroitin sulphate each come with a printed dose you can hold the maker to.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Large breed adults, the size the feeding tables are written around
Joints that need help before they need help
Grain-free homes, with sweet potato and potato doing a cereal's job
A dog that will not touch fish, with the turkey bag
Big dogs with a delicate digestion, beet pulp joined by FOS and MOS

Worth watching

An omega 3 supplement on both labels with no source named
Pea and potato protein behind the turkey's meat
Protein declared at 24% on the salmon, modest for a big dog in hard work

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

How this scores

How we score

65.9/100Good

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceAverage

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Listed for large breed adults, with a feeding table that starts at 20kg. A big dog gets through far more than our 15kg example, so go by the label's own table.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Large

Main protein

Salmon

The score, in context

Turkey 68.6
Salmon 65.9

All two Good. Typical dry food: Good.

Named animal at half the recipe and a dosed joint package carry both; the starch behind the meat is what stops them going further.

What's in it

Freshly prepared salmon and trout33%Sheds its water in baking.
Dried salmon, salmon stock15%, 2%The dried entry does more of the finished work than its share suggests.
Sweet potato24%The leading plant entry.
Peas, potato9% peas
Beet pulp, linseedFibre, and plant omega 3.
Omega 3 supplementNo source given, so neither bag counts as strictly fish free.
Minerals, vitamins, vegetable stock
Asparagus0.3%
Glucosamine, methylsulfonylmethane, chondroitin sulphate170 mg/kg, 170 mg/kg, 125 mg/kgThe reason this range exists, dosed in print.
FOS, MOS96 mg/kg, 24 mg/kg

Vitamins A, D3 and E with zinc, iron, manganese and iodine; the panel stops short of copper and selenium.

Named ingredients

Salmon and Trout 50% (including Freshly Prepared Salmon & Freshly Prepared Trout 33%, Dried Salmon 15%, Salmon Stock 2%) Sweet Potato (24%), Peas (9%), Potato, Beet Pulp, Linseed, Omega 3 Supplement, Minerals, Vitamins, Vegetable Stock, Asparagus (0.3%), Glucosamine (170 mg/kg), Methylsulfonylmethane (170 mg/kg), Chondroitin Sulphate (125 mg/kg), FOS (96 mg/kg), MOS (24 mg/kg)

Against the range

Meat: Salmon and trout, every entry a fish; Turkey throughout on the other
Protein, dry matter: 26.1%; 31.5% on the turkey
Carbohydrate: 47.3%; 42.4% on the turkey

The answer for a big dog kept away from land meats, though it leans harder on its plant side.

Both labels declare 50% of the recipe as a named animal and break it into a freshly prepared part and a dried one. Sweet potato at 24% leads the plant side, then peas and potato, with no cereal and beet pulp for fibre.

The joint package is identical and printed with doses, as are the two prebiotics. Each bag also carries an omega 3 supplement with no source attached. Calcium reads 1.52% of dry matter on both.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

362 kcal/100g

Protein

24%

Fat

13%

Fibre

3.5%

Ash

Moisture

Dry weight

Protein

26.1%

Fat

14.1%

Fibre

3.8%

Ash

8.7%

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

48%

Added water

3.3%

Carbs

38.4%

Other

10.2%

Pricing & size