Nourish

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

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

63/100Good

DryAdultSenior

Flavour

A grain-free senior kibble written for a dog who still wants dinner but walks less than before. Fat is pulled well back, L-carnitine gets a printed dose and the joint package carries a figure beside every name. Both recipes land in our Good band, and starch is what keeps them there.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Older dogs thickening round the middle: fat is declared at 8% on the fish bag and 9% on the turkey
Stiffening joints, with glucosamine, methylsulfonylmethane and chondroitin sulphate all dosed in print
Owners who like L-carnitine with a number on it, at 480 mg per kilo in the fish and 500 mg in the turkey
Older dogs kept off grain. Sweet potato and potato do the cereal's job
A dog that needs one named animal, which the turkey recipe gives

Worth watching

Starch fills the gap the fat leaves: carbohydrate reaches 51.6% of dry matter on the fish side and 47.9% on the turkey, against 46.2% typical
Pea protein and potato protein behind the fish, so some of that protein is plant
An omega 3 supplement on the turkey label that never names its source

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

How this scores

How we score

63/100Good

Protein and processingAverage

Nutritional balanceAverage

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adult and senior dogs of every size. The feeding table asks 200 grams a day for a 15kg dog, and one that has slowed down often needs a little under that.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult, Senior

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Salmon

The score, in context

Turkey 67.7
Salmon 63.0

All two Good. Typical dry food: Good.

Honest senior construction on both, held back by the starch that replaces the missing fat.

What's in it

Trout & salmon: freshly prepared trout, dried salmon, freshly prepared salmon50% (30%, 11%, 4%)The dried salmon is the entry that carries protein into the bowl; fresh fish is mostly water before cooking.
Salmon oil, salmon stock3%, 2%Marine omega 3, named openly.
Sweet potato24%Leads the plant side and does the cereal's job.
Potato, peaspeas 6%
Beet pulpGives the FOS and MOS something to work on in the gut.
Pea protein, potato proteinPlant protein behind the fish, so not every gram of the 27.2% is animal.
LinseedPlant omega 3.
Minerals, vitamins, vegetable stock, asparagusasparagus 0.3%
Glucosamine, methylsulfonylmethane, chondroitin sulphate170, 170, 125 mg/kgThe joint package, dosed in print.
FOS, MOS96, 24 mg/kgFood for the gut bacteria.

L-carnitine at 480 mg per kilo, with zinc at 65mg and copper at 5mg alongside iron, manganese and iodine as sulphates and iodate.

Named ingredients

Trout & Salmon 50% (including Freshly Prepared Trout 30%, Dried Salmon 11%, Freshly Prepared Salmon 4%, Salmon Oil 3%, Salmon Stock 2% ), Sweet Potato (24%), Potato, Peas (6%), Beet Pulp, Pea Protein, Linseed, Potato Protein, Minerals, Vitamins, Vegetable Stock, Asparagus (0.3%), Glucosamine (170 mg/kg), Methylsulfonyl- methane (170 mg/kg), Chondroitin Sulphate (125 mg/ kg), FOS (96 mg/kg), MOS (24 mg/kg)

Against the range

Animals on the label: Trout and salmon, all fish; Turkey alone in the other bag
Fat, dry matter: 8.7%; 9.8% in the turkey
Carbohydrate, dry matter: 51.6%; 47.9% in the turkey
Calcium, dry matter: 1.09%; 1.63% in the turkey

The leaner, lower-energy bag of the two, and the one whose omega 3 is fully named.

Both bags declare half the recipe as named animal: trout and salmon in one, turkey alone in the other, each split into a fresh share and a dried one that carries the protein. Sweet potato opens the plant side, with potato and peas below it, and neither list carries a cereal.

The joint package is identical and printed with figures on both: glucosamine and methylsulfonylmethane at 170 mg/kg, chondroitin sulphate at 125 mg/kg. Fat stays low at 8.7% and 9.8% of dry matter. What varies is the omega 3 source, the plant proteins in the fish bag and the calcium.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

340 kcal/100g

Protein

25%

Fat

Fibre

3.5%

Ash

Moisture

Dry weight

Protein

27.2%

Fat

8.7%

Fibre

3.8%

Ash

8.7%

Carbs

51.6%

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

48%

Added water

2.4%

Carbs

47.2%

Other

2.4%

Pricing & size