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Nulo Baked & Coated Small Breed Adult review

Name: Nulo Baked & Coated Small Breed Adult
Brand: Nulo

69.2/100Good

DryAdult

Nulo's poultry kibble sized for a small mouth, in our Good band. Chicken is named twice at the top, fresh and dried, with turkey and duck behind and no cereal at all. The small print goes further than most: dosed taurine, and a live gut culture fed by chicory inulin.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Small breed adults, the dog this kibble and its feeding table are written for
Poultry eaters, with three birds named
Owners who want moisture on the label, so the analysis needs no assumptions
A delicate middle. Enterococcus faecium is declared with inulin to feed it

Worth watching

Chicken appears as meat, fat, broth and hydrolysed protein
Salmon oil, so not for a dog kept clear of fish
Rich at 375 kcal per 100g, so keep the scoop honest for a dog that mostly naps

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

How this scores

How we score

69.2/100Good

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceGood

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Listed for small-breed adults. The feeding table runs from 27 grams a day at 1kg to 165 grams at 10kg, so weigh your dog and let the waistline set the portion.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Small

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

Nulo Baked & Coated Small Breed Adult 69.2

All one Good. Typical dry food: Good.

Carbohydrate well under the adult dry norm and a printed moisture figure behind every conversion are what hold the placing up.

What's in it

Fresh chicken23%Mostly water, which the oven takes.
Dehydrated chicken proteins19%Doing much of the finished kibble's protein work.
Sweet potato, chickpeas, lentilsThe starch, with no cereal. Sweet potato brings fibre and vitamin A.
Chicken fat
Fresh turkey, fresh duck4% eachA second and third bird behind the chicken.
Linseed3%Plant omega 3, converted slowly.
Hydrolysed chicken protein, minerals, chicken broth1% broth
Salmon oil0.5%The marine omega 3, so fish is in the bag.
Dried apples, dried carrots, pea fibre, autolysed inactivated yeasts, chicory inulin0.5% pea fibreInulin feeds the declared gut culture.
Coconut oil, dried blueberries, dehydrated pumpkin, Curcuma longa0.1% down to 0.01%Decoration.

Taurine at 1,270 mg and DL-methionine at 2,445 mg per kilo, with every trace mineral declared in two forms, zinc the largest at 98 mg and 42 mg.

Named ingredients

Fresh chicken (23%), dehydrated chicken proteins (19%), sweet potato, chickpeas, lentils, chicken fat, fresh turkey (4%), fresh duck (4%), linseed (3%), hydrolysed chicken protein, minerals, chicken broth (1%), salmon oil (0.5%), dried apples, dried carrots, pea fibre (0.5%), autolysed inactivated yeasts, chicory inulin, coconut oil (0.1%), dried blueberries, dehydrated pumpkin (0.01%), products from the processing of herbs (Curcuma longa).

Against the range

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

375.4 kcal/100g

Protein

30%

Fat

17%

Fibre

Ash

Moisture

Dry weight

Protein

32.6%

Fat

18.5%

Fibre

4.3%

Ash

9.8%

Carbs

34.8%

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

54.1%

Carbs

36.8%

Veg

1.5%

Oils

Other

4.5%

Pricing & size