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Nourish Grain Free Adult Small Breed: Lamb With Sweet Potato & Mint review

Name: Nourish Grain Free Adult Small Breed: Lamb With Sweet Potato & Mint
Brand: Nourish

65.1/100Good

DryAdult

Flavour

Nourish's grain-free recipe in a kibble small enough for a small mouth, with the meat share kept at half or more. The chicken reaches our Excellent band, with the lamb and the salmon just behind in Good. These run a shade richer than the standard adult bags.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Small breed adults, the size the kibble is cut and portioned for
One named meat, as the chicken and the lamb both manage
Busy little dogs: fat at 16.3% of dry matter in the chicken and the salmon
Dogs off grain entirely
A fish-loving terrier, with salmon oil named at 4% in the salmon

Worth watching

No glucosamine or chondroitin on any of the three
An omega 3 supplement of unnamed source on every label
The lamb's mineral load, with calcium at 2.17% of dry matter

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

How this scores

How we score

65.1/100Good

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceAverage

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Listed for small-breed adults. The label asks 75 grams at 4kg and 160 grams at 12kg, so weigh portions to your dog, not to a 15kg guide.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Small

Main protein

Lamb

The score, in context

Chicken 70.6
Salmon 66.6
Lamb 65.1

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

The three sit close enough that the animal matters more than the order they finish in, and the chicken's edge comes from how its declarations line up.

What's in it

Lamb: freshly prepared, dried, stock50% (30%, 18%, 2%)Lamb is the only animal named.
Sweet potato23%
Peas9%
Pea proteinA plant top-up behind the meat.
Potato, linseed, beet pulp
Omega 3 supplementSource not named, so not strictly fish free.
Minerals
Mint0.2%For the name.
FOS, MOS96 and 24 mg/kg

Vitamins A, D3 and E, zinc, iron, manganese and iodine, with selenium as sodium selenite.

The heaviest mineral load in the range: ash 10.9% and calcium 2.17% of dry matter.

Named ingredients

Lamb 50% (including Freshly Prepared Lamb 30%, Dried Lamb 18% & Lamb Stock 2%), Sweet Potato (23%), Peas (9%), Pea Protein, Potato, Linseed, Beet Pulp, Omega 3 Supplement, Minerals, Mint (0.2%), Fructooligosaccharides (FOS, 96 mg/kg), Mannanoligosaccharides (MOS, 24 mg/kg)

Against the range

Ash, dry matter: 10.9%; 9.2% in the chicken, 8.7% in the salmon.
Calcium, dry matter: 2.17%; 1.74% in the other two.
Energy: 364 kcal per 100g; The gentlest; up to 376 in the salmon.
Pea protein: On the list; Absent from the other two.

The lamb is for a dog that does best on that one meat, with pea protein lending a hand.

All three cut the brand's grain-free build down to a small kibble without shrinking the meat: half the recipe or more, split between freshly prepared and dried. Sweet potato at 22% to 26% leads the plant side, with peas, potato and beet pulp behind it. No cereal appears.

Linseed and an unnamed omega 3 supplement are on every label, and FOS at 96 mg/kg. Carbohydrate runs from 39.2% to 42.4% of dry matter against a typical 46.2%. The animal, the dried share and the mineral load are what vary.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

364 kcal/100g

Protein

26%

Fat

14%

Fibre

Ash

10%

Moisture

Dry weight

Protein

28.3%

Fat

15.2%

Fibre

3.3%

Ash

10.9%

Carbs

42.3%

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

32%

Added water

18%

Carbs

46.6%

Other

3.4%

Pricing & size