Nourish

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

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

65.9/100Good

DryAdult

Flavour

One grain-free recipe taken through five animals, with the beef and the chicken in our Excellent band and the lamb, salmon and turkey in Good. Every label puts the named meat at half the recipe or more. Sweet potato and potato take cereal's place, and they are what holds the scores back.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Rotating between meats on one unchanging frame
Dogs kept off grain
Adult dogs with settled needs
An unreliable digestion: beet pulp sits alongside FOS at 96 mg/kg and MOS at 24 mg/kg
One named meat in the bowl, which four of the five give

Worth watching

An omega 3 supplement with no source, which matters on a strict elimination diet
Carbohydrate from 41.4% to 48.2% of dry matter, so starch carries a fair share
Calcium differs by recipe, with the lamb highest

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

How this scores

How we score

65.9/100Good

Protein and processingAverage

Nutritional balanceAverage

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults of every size. If minerals matter for your dog, check the calcium figure on the variety you plan to feed.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Salmon

The score, in context

Angus Beef 71.5
Chicken 71.2
Turkey 68.4
Lamb 67.5
Salmon 65.9

Five recipes across Excellent and Good. Typical dry food: Good.

The beef and chicken edge into Excellent, but the gaps are small enough that the ranking is not the thing to choose on.

What's in it

Freshly prepared salmon and trout36%Two fish in the lead.
Dehydrated salmon, salmon stock12%, 2%
Sweet potato24%
Peas, potatopeas 9%
Beet pulp, linseed
Omega 3 supplement
Minerals, vitamins, vegetable stock
Asparagus0.3%
FOS, MOS96 mg/kg, 24 mg/kg

Vitamins A, D3 and E with zinc, iron, manganese and iodine dosed per kilo; this panel lists no copper or selenium.

Named ingredients

Salmon & Trout 50% (including Freshly Prepared Salmon & Trout 36%, Dehydrated Salmon 12% & Salmon Stock 2%), Sweet Potato (24%), Peas (9%), Potato, Beet Pulp, Linseed, Omega 3 Supplement, Minerals, Vitamins, Vegetable Stock, Asparagus (0.3%), FOS (96 mg/kg), MOS (24 mg/kg).

Against the range

Meat: Salmon and trout, 50%; The only fish recipe; the others are single land animals.
Carbohydrate: 48.2% of dry matter; The highest; the beef is 41.4%.
Fat, dry matter: 12.0%; As lean as the turkey.

Leans hardest on its plant side, but it is the pick for a dog that does best on fish.

Each recipe declares half its content or more as a named animal, split between a freshly prepared entry and a dried one. The dried entry is the one that carries the protein into the kibble, and protein finishes between 28.3% and 31.5% of dry matter. Sweet potato leads the plant side at 23% to 26%, with potato and peas behind it, and no label carries a cereal.

Linseed, beet pulp and a dosed prebiotic pair are on every list, as is an entry called omega 3 supplement with no source given. The mineral panels are printed with figures but not identically: copper and selenium appear on some and not others. Calcium varies from recipe to recipe.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

359 kcal/100g

Protein

26%

Fat

11%

Fibre

Ash

7.5%

Moisture

Dry weight

Protein

28.3%

Fat

12%

Fibre

3.3%

Ash

8.2%

Carbs

48.2%

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

38%

Added water

12.6%

Carbs

45.2%

Other

4.3%

Pricing & size