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Nulo Freeze-Dried Raw: Beef Heart with Apples review

Name: Nulo Freeze-Dried Raw: Beef Heart with Apples
Brand: Nulo

85.9/100Outstanding

Freeze-driedPuppyAdult

Flavour

Freeze-dried recipes built on organ meat, both in our Outstanding band. The beef runs heart, liver, meat and kidney straight down the top of its list. A dosed taurine and a gut flora culture on the panel set the range apart from most of its neighbours.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Dogs with a taste for organ meat, with heart, liver and kidney doing the heavy lifting
Growing dogs and older ones, both flavours being listed for puppies, adults and seniors
Raw ingredients for a household short on freezer space
Owners who look for taurine on a label: it is dosed at 750 mg
Stiffening dogs, glucosamine and chondroitin sulphate both on the list

Worth watching

Dried egg in both, salmon oil in the beef and salmon at 8% in the turkey, so no strict single protein plan
No calcium declared. Ask the maker before rearing a large breed puppy on this
Small, dense portions: a scoop from your old food hands over far more than you intend

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

How this scores

How we score

85.9/100Outstanding

Protein and processingOutstanding

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueOutstanding

The details

Dog fit

Listed for puppies, adults and seniors of every size. A 15kg adult needs roughly 165 to 195 grams a day; weigh it, and feed a growing dog to the growth curve your vet uses.

Food type

Freeze-dried

Life stage

Puppy, Adult, Senior

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Beef

The score, in context

Turkey 86.8
Beef Heart 85.9

All two Outstanding. Typical dry food: Good.

Both match the typical freeze-dried food at the top of our scale, doing the format proud on a list that is nearly all recognisable whole food.

What's in it

Beef heart51%Organ meat at the head of the list, a deliberate choice.
Beef liver, beef meat, beef kidney12%, 10%, 10%More than four fifths of the pack is beef before anything else is counted.
Dried eggA second animal.
Dried apple4%
Minerals, beet pulp, sweet potato, apple cider vinegar
Spinach, parsley, kale, broccoli, carrot, blueberriesWhole food in small amounts.
Sunflower oil, flaxseed, salmon oilSalmon oil puts fish in a beef bowl.
Inulin, seaweed, yeast product, chicory rootInulin feeds the large intestine's bacteria; seaweed brings iodine.
Glucosamine, chondroitin sulphateNear the end of a long list, so a welcome inclusion, not a measured joint dose.
Yucca, hawthorn leaf, dandelion root, green tea

Taurine at 750 mg and biotin at 0.1 mg, a Bacillus gut flora culture, and vitamins A, D3 and E with zinc, iron and the other trace minerals dosed.

Named ingredients

Beef heart (51%), beef liver (12%), beef meat (10%), beef kidney (10%), dried egg, dried apple (4%), minerals, beet pulp, dried sweet potato, dried apple cider vinegar, dried spinach, dried parsley, dried kale, dried broccoli, dried carrot, sunflower oil, flaxseed, dried blueberries, salmon oil, inulin, dried seaweed, yeast product, dried chicory root, glucosamine, chondroitin sulphate, yucca schidigera extract, dried hawthorn leaf, dried dandelion root, green tea powder.

Against the range

Meat: Beef heart 51%, liver, meat, kidney; Turkey meat 44% with heart, liver and salmon
Fat, dry matter: 43.2%; 27.4% on the turkey
Energy: 502 kcal per 100g; 431 on the turkey

The richer pack, and the one for a dog that needs condition.

Both recipes are built around organ meat and dried at low temperature to keep on a shelf. Dried egg is in both, and a long tail of fruit, vegetables, seaweed and inulin follows, with glucosamine and chondroitin near the end.

Moisture is not printed on either label, so the dry matter figures assume 5%. The beef is the richer bowl and the turkey the leaner, and the turkey brings salmon in at 8%.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

502 kcal/100g

Protein

41%

Fat

41%

Fibre

5.1%

Ash

9.6%

Dry weight

Protein

43.2%

Fat

43.2%

Fibre

5.4%

Ash

10.1%

Carbs

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

88.6%

Carbs

3.9%

Veg

5.3%

Other

2.1%

Pricing & size