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Nulo Baked & Coated Adult: Chicken, Duck & Turkey review

Name: Nulo Baked & Coated Adult: Chicken, Duck & Turkey
Brand: Nulo

70/100Excellent

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

70/100Excellent

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceGood

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueExcellent

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

Chicken

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 chicken23%
Dehydrated chicken proteins18%The dried entry carries more finished protein than the fresh.
Sweet potato, chickpeas, lentilsNo cereal.
Linseed4.2%Stepped up for a little more plant omega 3.
Fresh turkey, fresh duck4% eachCompany for the chicken.
Hydrolysed chicken protein, chicken fat, chicken broth1% broth
Pea fibre, salmon oil0.5% eachFish here, through the salmon oil.
Yeasts, minerals, chicory inulinInulin feeds the live culture.
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.

Named ingredients

Fresh chicken (23%), dehydrated chicken proteins (18%), sweet potato, chickpeas, lentils, linseed (4.2%), fresh turkey (4%), fresh duck (4%), hydrolysed chicken protein, chicken fat, chicken broth (1%), pea fibre (0.5%), dried apples, salmon oil (0.5%), dried carrots, autolysed inactivated yeasts, minerals, chicory inulin, coconut oil (0.1%), dehydrated pumpkin (0.01%), dried cranberries, products from the processing of herbs (Curcuma longa).

Against the range

Meat: Chicken 23% fresh, 18% dried; Lamb and pork lead the other.
Fat, dry matter: 17.9%; 16.8% in the red meat recipe.
Linseed: 4.2%; 3% in the red meat recipe.
Band: Excellent; Good for the red meat recipe.

The leaner panel on protein, the richer on fat, and the one we rate higher.

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

374.5 kcal/100g

Protein

30%

Fat

16.5%

Fibre

4.5%

Ash

7.5%

Dry weight

Protein

32.6%

Fat

17.9%

Fibre

4.9%

Ash

8.2%

Carbs

36.4%

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

54.7%

Carbs

35.9%

Veg

2.2%

Oils

2.1%

Other

5.1%

Pricing & size