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Nulo Raw Medley Puppy review

Name: Nulo Raw Medley Puppy
Brand: Nulo

70.4/100Excellent

DryPuppy

An Excellent-band puppy kibble with freeze dried pieces mixed in, and those pieces are the point of the bag. They are mostly fresh chicken, chicken heart and chicken liver. Underneath, four named animals carry the kibble to 33.2% protein in dry matter.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Puppies who need tempting, with something to pick out of the bowl first
Owners fine with salmon, turkey and chicken together, each given a percentage
Homes that do not need grain free. Dehulled oats at 14% are a gentle, familiar fibre
Organ meat in a recipe: the pieces are 30% heart and 10% liver
A gut that likes help, from chicory inulin at 0.2% and a declared Enterococcus faecium culture

Worth watching

No calcium figure, the number a big-breed pup is reared on
No moisture declared, so every dry matter figure assumes 8%
Three animals plus chicken organs, which leaves an exclusion diet nothing to lean on

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

How this scores

How we score

70.4/100Excellent

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceGood

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueExcellent

The details

Dog fit

Listed for puppies of every size, from 116g a day at 5kg to 469g at 50kg on the label. If yours will finish large, ring Nulo for the calcium figure before ordering.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Puppy

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

Nulo Raw Medley Puppy 70.4

All one Excellent. Typical dry food: Good.

Named meats with percentages and real organ meat carry it ahead of the puppy dry middle; two missing declarations keep it from pressing higher.

What's in it

Fresh salmon14%Brings some marine omega 3 of its own.
Dehulled oats14%High for a modern puppy food, and a cereal most pups digest without fuss.
Dehydrated turkey proteins, dehydrated chicken proteins12%, 11%The water has gone already, so these matter more than their figures suggest.
Sweet potatoes, lentils, chickpeas
Fresh turkey, fresh chicken4%, 3%
Chicken fat, linseedFat named by species.
Hydrolysed chicken protein, minerals
Freeze dried pieces: fresh chicken, chicken heart, chicken liver42%, 30%, 10% of the piecesA good topper baked in, and a small share of the bag by weight.
Pea fibre, autolysed inactivated yeasts, chicory inulin0.5%, 0.2%The digestion side.
Pumpkin, kale, broccoli, blueberryFreeze dried in the pieces.

A dosed, specific panel: vitamin E at 200 mg and vitamin C at 80 mg, added DL-methionine, choline and taurine, and a gut flora stabiliser with its live count.

No calcium figure on the label. For a puppy that will finish large, ask Nulo for it.

Named ingredients

Fresh salmon (14%), dehulled oats (14%), dehydrated turkey proteins (12%), dehydrated chicken proteins (11%), sweet potatoes, lentils, chickpeas, fresh turkey (4%), chicken fat, linseed, fresh chicken (3%), hydrolysed chicken protein, minerals, fresh chicken (42% in the freeze-dried pieces*), chicken heart (30% in the freeze-dried pieces*), pea fibre (0.5%), autolysed inactivated yeasts, chicken liver (10% in the freeze-dried pieces*), Chicory inulin (0.2%), fresh pumpkin*, fresh kale*, fresh broccoli*, fresh blueberry*. *freeze-dried pieces typically 3% of the product.

Against the range

One puppy recipe: a baked kibble led by fresh salmon, oats and dehydrated turkey and chicken proteins, with freeze dried pieces of chicken, heart and liver stirred through at typically 3% of the bag. Neither moisture nor calcium is printed on the label.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

378.5 kcal/100g

Protein

30.5%

Fat

16.5%

Fibre

3.5%

Ash

8.5%

Dry weight

Protein

33.2%

Fat

17.9%

Fibre

3.8%

Ash

9.2%

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

47.1%

Carbs

45.4%

Veg

0.4%

Oils

Other

Pricing & size