Nourish

Nourish Grain Free Senior: Turkey With Sweet Potato & Cranberry review

Name: Nourish Grain Free Senior: Turkey With Sweet Potato & Cranberry
Brand: Nourish

67.7/100Good

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

67.7/100Good

Protein and processingGood

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

Turkey

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

Turkey: freshly prepared turkey, dried turkey50% (27%, 21%)The one named animal in the bag. The dried share does most of the protein work.
Turkey stock2%
Sweet potato16%Leads the plant side, a smaller share than in the fish bag.
Potato, peaspeas 8%
Beet pulpFibre for the gut bacteria to ferment.
LinseedPlant omega 3.
Omega 3 supplementSource not named, so not safe to treat as fish free on an exclusion diet.
Minerals, vitamins, vegetable stock, cranberrycranberry 0.2%
Glucosamine, methylsulfonylmethane, chondroitin sulphate170, 170, 125 mg/kgSame joint package as the fish recipe.
FOS, MOS96, 24 mg/kg

L-carnitine at 500 mg per kilo, with zinc at 50mg, copper at 15mg and selenium at 0.3mg as sodium selenite, the only bag of the two to declare it.

Calcium and ash both run higher here than in the fish recipe, at 1.63% calcium in dry matter.

Named ingredients

Turkey 50% (including Freshly Prepared Turkey 27%, Dried Turkey 21% & Turkey Stock 2%), Sweet Potato (16%), Potato, Peas (8%), Beet Pulp, Linseed, Omega 3 Supplement, Minerals, Vitamins, Vegetable Stock, Cranberry (0.2%), Glucosamine (170 mg/kg), Methylsulfonylmethane (170 mg/kg), Chondroitin Sulphate (125 mg/kg), FOS (96 mg/kg), MOS (24 mg/kg)

Against the range

Animals on the label: Turkey only; Trout and salmon in the fish bag
Protein, dry matter: 29.3%; 27.2% in the fish
Plant proteins: None listed; Pea and potato protein in the fish
L-carnitine: 500 mg per kilo; 480 mg in the fish

The single-animal choice and the stronger protein reading, which is why it scores a touch higher.

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

343 kcal/100g

Protein

27%

Fat

Fibre

3.5%

Ash

8.5%

Moisture

Dry weight

Protein

29.3%

Fat

9.8%

Fibre

3.8%

Ash

9.2%

Carbs

47.9%

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

29%

Added water

21.9%

Carbs

42.6%

Other

6.5%

Pricing & size