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Nulo Freeze-Dried Raw: Turkey with Salmon & Strawberries review

Name: Nulo Freeze-Dried Raw: Turkey with Salmon & Strawberries
Brand: Nulo

86.8/100Outstanding

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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

86.8/100Outstanding

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

Turkey

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

Turkey meat44%
Turkey heart, turkey liver21% and 12%Organs high on the list, where they carry real weight.
Salmon8%Fish squarely in the bowl.
Dried egg
Dried strawberries4%
Minerals, apple cider vinegar, flaxseed, sunflower oil
Parsley, inulin, carrots, green beans, apples, spinach, kale, blueberries, pumpkinWhole food in small amounts; inulin is the prebiotic.
Seaweed, yeast product, chicory root
Glucosamine, chondroitin sulphateNear the end of a long list, so a welcome inclusion, not a measured joint dose.
Yucca, dandelion root, green tea, hawthorn leaf

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

Turkey meat (44%), turkey heart (21%), turkey liver (12%), salmon (8%), dried egg, dried strawberries (4%), minerals, dried apple cider vinegar, flaxseed, sunflower oil, dried parsley, inulin, dried carrots, green beans, dried apples, dried spinach, dried kale, dried blueberries, pumpkin pulp powder, dried seaweed, yeast product, dried chicory root, glucosamine, chondroitin sulphate, yucca schidigera extract, dried dandelion root, green tea powder, dried hawthorn leaf.

Against the range

Meat: Turkey 44%, heart 21%, liver 12%, salmon 8%; All beef on the other
Protein, dry matter: 53.7%; 43.2% on the beef
Fat, dry matter: 27.4%; 43.2% on the beef

The better fit for a dog that gains condition without trying.

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

431 kcal/100g

Protein

51%

Fat

26%

Fibre

Ash

7.3%

Dry weight

Protein

53.7%

Fat

27.4%

Fibre

6.3%

Ash

7.7%

Carbs

4.9%

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

90.5%

Carbs

0.2%

Veg

1.7%

Oils

0.5%

Other

7.1%

Pricing & size