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Nourish Grain Free Puppy: Chicken With Turkey, Salmon, Sweet Potato & Carrots review

Name: Nourish Grain Free Puppy: Chicken With Turkey, Salmon, Sweet Potato & Carrots
Brand: Nourish

73.5/100Excellent

DryPuppy

Flavour

Two grain-free puppy recipes in our Excellent band, and both print a calcium figure inside the range growing bones want. Most puppy bags leave that line blank. The 60% headline is itemised, fresh and dried, down to the stock.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Puppies of any size, toy to giant
Owners who look for calcium first: 1.3% and 1.41% of dry matter
Grain-free homes
Joint care from early on, with glucosamine, MSM and chondroitin all dosed
Gut support named and measured

Worth watching

Several animals in each bag, so neither keeps to one
Fish in both recipes
An omega 3 supplement with no named source, the loose end on a strict exclusion diet

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

How this scores

How we score

73.5/100Excellent

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceGood

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueExcellent

The details

Dog fit

Listed for puppies from toy breeds to giants. Portions shift as fast as the puppy does, so keep going back to the chart on the bag.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Puppy

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

Chicken 73.5
Salmon 72.9

All two Excellent. Typical dry food: Good.

The lift above the middle of the puppy shelf comes as much from what the labels declare as from the recipes.

What's in it

Freshly prepared chicken, dried chicken20%, 14%Dried meat has already lost its water, so its place understates what it adds.
Turkey, fresh and dried7% each
Salmon, fresh and dried7%, 3%Fish in a chicken-led bag.
Chicken stock2%
Sweet potato22%The largest plant entry.
Potato, linseed
Omega 3 supplementSource not named.
Beet pulp, minerals, vitaminsGentle fibre from the beet pulp.
Carrot, peas0.2%, 0.07%Garnish.
Glucosamine, MSM, chondroitin, nucleotides, FOS, MOSAll dosed in mg/kg.

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

Calcium converts to 1.3% of dry matter, inside the growth range.

Named ingredients

Chicken, Turkey & Salmon 60% (including Freshly Prepared Chicken 20%, Dried Chicken 14%, Freshly Prepared Turkey 7%, Freshly Prepared Salmon 7%, Dried Turkey 7%, Dried Salmon 3% & Chicken Stock 2%), Sweet Potato (22%), Potato, Linseed, Omega 3 Supplement, Beet Pulp, Minerals, Vitamins, Carrot (0.2%), Peas (0.07%), Glucosamine (170 mg/kg), Methylsulfonylmethane (170 mg/kg), Chondroitin Sulphate (125 mg/kg), Vegetable Stock, Nucleotides, FOS (96 mg/ kg), MOS (24 mg/kg)

Against the range

Animals: Chicken, turkey, salmon; Salmon, haddock, blue whiting in the fish bag
Fat, dry matter: 16.3%; 14.1% in the fish
Energy: 384 kcal per 100g; 359 in the fish
Calcium, dry matter: 1.3%; 1.41% in the fish

The richer of the two, with the broader allergen picture.

Both recipes declare a 60% meat or fish headline and break it into fresh and dried portions, with sweet potato and potato as the binder and no cereal. Calcium, moisture and the joint and prebiotic supplements are all printed.

The supplement tail is the same on both: glucosamine and methylsulfonylmethane at 170 mg/kg, chondroitin at 125 mg/kg, FOS, MOS and nucleotides. What differs is the animals: three birds and a fish in one bag, three fish in the other.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

384 kcal/100g

Protein

29%

Fat

15%

Fibre

2.5%

Ash

Moisture

Dry weight

Protein

31.5%

Fat

16.3%

Fibre

2.7%

Ash

7.6%

Carbs

41.9%

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

64.6%

Added water

3.1%

Carbs

28.3%

Veg

0.2%

Other

3.8%

Pricing & size