Nourish Grain Free Puppy Small Breed: Turkey With Duck, Sweet Potato, Dill & Camomile review

This reads as a Good band food, level with the middle of the puppy dry field. Transparency is Outstanding, nutritional balance and value Good, protein and processing Average. That places it squarely in the pack on standing while doing several things better than the pack does.

In its favour: a 60% meat headline itemised down to the stock, and a printed calcium figure that lands in range. Energy sits above the category typical, and carbohydrate converts to 35.3% of dry matter where the typical puppy dry food runs at 39.0%. Pulling the other way: potato protein placed high on the list, and a duck share that is small next to its billing on the front of the pack.

Ingredients, as declared: 60% Turkey & Duck (including Freshly Prepared Turkey 32%, DriedTurkey 18%, Turkey Fat 5%, Freshly Prepared Duck 4%, and Turkey Stock 1%) Sweet Potato (20%), Potato Protein, Peas (4%), Potato, Beet Pulp, Linseed, Minerals, Omega 3 Supplement, Vegetable Stock, Camomile (0.3%), Dill (0.3%), Nucleotides, Glucosamine (170 mg/kg), Methylsulfonylmethane (170 mg/kg), Chondroitin Sulphate (125 mg/kg), Fructooligosaccharides (FOS, 96 mg/kg), Mannanoligosaccharides (MOS, 24 mg/kg).

The meat block is unusually well broken out. Turkey heads the list, freshly prepared at 32% and dried at 18%. Turkey fat comes in at 5%. Duck, freshly prepared at 4%, and a turkey stock at 1% finish the 60%. The dried turkey has already had its water removed. That 18% therefore carries a disproportionate share of the finished kibble's protein. Turkey fat is named by species too, and that is a small honesty worth noticing.

Potato protein sits third on the list and deserves a plain word. It is what potato processing leaves over, and it is here for protein. Plant proteins are neither as digestible nor as complete as meat proteins. Part of the declared 30.0% protein is therefore arriving from a plant, not from the birds on the front of the bag. It is not a problem for a healthy pup, but it is the reason to read the analysis next to the list.

Sweet potato at 20% leads the starch. Behind it come peas at 4%, potato and beet pulp. Carbohydrate converts to 35.3% of dry matter, under the 39.0% typical of the category, and fat converts to 19.6%, which together explain the 389 kcal per 100g energy figure. Small dogs with fast engines are who this is built for.

Calcium converts to 1.52% of dry matter and is printed rather than left to trust, which matters even on a small breed food because too much calcium during growth is as unhelpful as too little. Sitting inside the growth range on a bag portioned for small pups is exactly the pairing you want to see.

Every entry in the functional tail carries a printed dose. Glucosamine and methylsulfonylmethane sit at 170 mg/kg each, with chondroitin sulphate at 125 mg/kg. FOS at 96 mg/kg and MOS at 24 mg/kg look after the gut, with added nucleotides alongside. Linseed brings plant side omega 3 with a named omega 3 supplement behind it.

Camomile and dill appear at 0.3% each. They are seasoning, and the recipe stands on its turkey. The analysis is fully declared down to ash at 8.5% and moisture at 8.0%, so nothing on this page is working from an assumed figure.

£6.33 a kilo. There is a 200g sample, and bags of 1.5kg and 6kg.

A growing puppy's ration keeps moving. Read across the bag's chart as the weeks go by, and adjust as your pup fills out. Nourish sets its own guide from 160g a day at the light end, holds around 180g to 200g through the middle stages and tops out at 370g.