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Nourish Grain Free Pâté: Salmon With Sweet Potato, Garden Vegetables & Herbs review

Name: Nourish Grain Free Pâté: Salmon With Sweet Potato, Garden Vegetables & Herbs
Brand: Nourish

80/100Outstanding

WetAdult

Flavour

Three pâtés that each put one animal in the tin and then stop. No second meat creeps in further down, which is rarer than it sounds. The lamb and turkey sit in our Excellent band and the salmon in Outstanding.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Elimination plans: a single named animal, no fish oil and no unnamed animal fat
Owners avoiding cereal altogether
A watched waistline, the Lamb and Turkey at 96 kcal per 100g
Joints on the mind, with glucosamine and chondroitin declared
Dogs that take most of their fluid from dinner

Worth watching

Vegetable oil with the plant unnamed
Generous calcium on the Lamb and Turkey for an adult food
No percentages against the peas and broccoli

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

How this scores

How we score

80/100Outstanding

Protein and processingExcellent

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueOutstanding

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults of every size. If calcium matters for your dog, the Salmon sits at 1.6% of dry matter against 3.18% on the Lamb.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Salmon

The score, in context

Salmon 80.0
Lamb 77.5
Turkey 77.5

Three recipes across Outstanding and Excellent. Typical wet food: Excellent.

These plain pâtés hold their own against a strong wet field, with the salmon a shade ahead.

What's in it

Salmon65%The only animal, and the only fish recipe.
Dried sweet potato1%Equivalent to 4% fresh, the label shows its working.
Dried carrot0.5%Equivalent to 4.5% fresh.
Dried peas, dried broccoliNo percentages, so their share rests on list position.
Minerals
Vegetable oilThe one general term: the plant is not named.
Rosemary, thyme, dried seaweed, MOSSeaweed for iodine, MOS as a prebiotic.
Glucosamine, chondroitin0.004%, 0.002%Top-up amounts, not a vet's dose.
Cranberry extract, yucca extract

Vitamins A and E with zinc, iron, copper, manganese, iodine and selenium, all dosed.

Named ingredients

Salmon (65%), Dried Sweet Potato (1%, equivalent to 4% Sweet Potato), Dried Carrot (0.5%, equivalent to 4.5% Carrot), Dried Peas, Dried Broccoli, Minerals, Vegetable Oil, Rosemary, Thyme, Dried Seaweed, MOS, Glucosamine (0.004%), Chondroitin (0.002%), Cranberry Extract, Yucca Extract.

Against the range

Fat, dry matter: 40.0%; 31.8% on the lamb and turkey.
Energy: 124 kcal per 100g; 96 on the other two.
Carbohydrate, dry matter: 4.0%; 11.4% on the others.
Calcium, dry matter: 1.6%; The most moderate of the three.

Much the richest of the three, with the gentlest calcium reading.

Each recipe is one animal at 65%, with no fish oil, hydrolysate or unnamed animal fat further down. Dried sweet potato and carrot are printed with their fresh equivalents, then peas, broccoli, a plant oil, herbs and a short supplement run. Protein converts to about 40% of dry matter on all three, and calcium is the figure that moves.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

124 kcal/100g

Protein

10%

Fat

10%

Fibre

0.5%

Ash

3.5%

Moisture

75%

Dry weight

Protein

40%

Fat

40%

Fibre

Ash

14%

Carbs

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

65%

Added water

20.1%

Carbs

8.4%

Veg

3.4%

Oils

0.8%

Other

2.3%