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Nulo Baked & Coated Adult: Beef, Pork & Lamb review

Name: Nulo Baked & Coated Adult: Beef, Pork & Lamb
Brand: Nulo

67.1/100Good

DryAdult

Flavour

A grain-free kibble in two directions, red meats and birds, with the same short construction under both. The poultry recipe reaches our Excellent band and the red meat one sits in Good. The small print does the quiet work: taurine dosed at over a gram per kilo and a live gut culture declared.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Owners who like to find the headline animal again in the small print, fresh and dried
Cereal-free households. Lentils, chickpeas and sweet potato do the binding
Rotating proteins, as only the animals change between the two
Unsettled digestions, with chicory inulin feeding a declared Enterococcus faecium culture

Worth watching

Chicken as fat, broth and hydrolysed protein in both, so neither is chicken free
Salmon oil in each, for a dog kept off fish
Three red meats in one bowl in the Beef, Pork & Lamb

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

How this scores

How we score

67.1/100Good

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceGood

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults of every size. The label asks 164 to 284 grams for a dog of 10kg to 20kg, so let the waistline pick the figure.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Lamb

The score, in context

Chicken 70.0
Beef 67.1

Two recipes across Excellent and Good. Typical dry food: Good.

The poultry recipe edges a band ahead, though not by enough to outweigh a dog's preference for one animal.

What's in it

Fresh lamb22%Most of its water goes in the oven.
Dehydrated pork proteins14%Puts more finished protein in the bowl than its place suggests.
Lentils, sweet potato, chickpeasStarch, with protein and fibre of their own.
Pea proteinOnly in this recipe.
Chicken fatThe added fat, and a bird in a red meat bag.
Fresh pork, fresh beef, dehydrated lamb proteins4%, 4%, 3%
Linseed3%
Hydrolysed chicken protein, chicken broth1% brothA palatant and a broth, both chicken.
Pea fibre, salmon oil, yeasts, minerals, chicory inulin0.5% each fibre and oilSalmon oil is the marine omega.
Dried apples, dried carrots, a berry, coconut oil, dehydrated pumpkin, turmericGarnish, not groundwork.

Taurine, DL-methionine and choline chloride are dosed, every trace mineral comes in two forms, and the gut culture is a live Enterococcus faecium.

Chicken fat, broth and hydrolysed chicken protein are on the label, so it is not poultry free.

Named ingredients

Fresh lamb (22%), dehydrated pork proteins (14%), lentils, sweet potato, chickpeas, pea protein, chicken fat, fresh pork (4%), fresh beef (4%), dehydrated lamb proteins (3%), linseed (3%), hydrolysed chicken protein, chicken broth (1%), pea fibre (0.5%), dried carrots, dried apples, salmon oil (0.5%), autolysed inactivated yeasts, minerals, chicory inulin, coconut oil (0.1%), dried blueberries, dehydrated pumpkin (0.01%), products from the processing of herbs (Curcuma longa).

Against the range

Meat: Lamb 22%, pork 14%, beef 4%; Chicken, duck and turkey in the other.
Protein, dry matter: 33.2%; 32.6% in the poultry recipe.
Pea protein: On the label; Not in the poultry recipe.
Linseed: 3%; 4.2% in the poultry recipe.

Pork is new to plenty of dogs, which is the appeal if birds have never agreed with yours.

Both recipes open on a named fresh meat and back it with a dried version of the same animal, then let lentils, chickpeas and sweet potato carry the starch with no cereal. Chicken fat, hydrolysed chicken protein, chicken broth at 1% and salmon oil at 0.5% appear on both labels, whatever the front of the bag says.

Neither declares moisture, so the dry matter figures assume 8%. Protein reads 33.2% and 32.6% of dry matter, and estimated carbohydrate 35.9% and 36.4%.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

368.8 kcal/100g

Protein

30.5%

Fat

15.5%

Fibre

Ash

Dry weight

Protein

33.2%

Fat

16.8%

Fibre

4.3%

Ash

9.8%

Carbs

35.9%

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

50.1%

Carbs

42.6%

Veg

1.5%

Oils

2.2%

Other

3.6%

Pricing & size