NuTRIBALance

Nutribalance Small & Medium Breed Adult review

Name: Nutribalance Small & Medium Breed Adult
Brand: NuTRIBALance

58.1/100Good

DryAdult

A dependable everyday kibble in our Good band, with joint support written into the recipe. Glucosamine, MSM and chondroitin each carry a printed percentage, which few cereal-based bags bother to do. Two prebiotics and a beet fibre round out the digestive side.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Small and medium breed adults, the two sizes the feeding table covers
Older dogs whose owners want joint support in the bowl
A dog long used to cereal
Unsettled digestion: beet pulp fibre alongside both FOS and MOS

Worth watching

Poultry oil and turkey digest name a category, so neither pins down an elimination diet
Salmon oil at 1%, so it is not fish free
Gluten from the barley

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

How this scores

How we score

58.1/100Good

Protein and processingAverage

Nutritional balanceAverage

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Listed for small and medium adult dogs. The table asks 160 to 280 grams a day between 12kg and 25kg, so let the waistline settle where your dog lands.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Small, Medium

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

Nutribalance Small & Medium Breed Adult 58.1

All one Good. Typical dry food: Good.

Ordinary in the useful sense: nothing falls short, and a recipe that leans on cereal then prints almost all of it.

What's in it

Chicken meal24%Water driven off before mixing, so the figure stays honest once the kibble is made.
Whole barley, whole maize, riceKept whole, holding more of their own fibre. Barley carries gluten.
Poultry oil7%A substantial share that names only a family of birds.
Turkey meal4%A second named bird.
Sugar beet pellets4%Soluble and insoluble fibre.
Turkey digest2%The palatant, sprayed on.
Salmon oil1%The one named fat and the omega 3 source.
Chicory extract, MOS0.2%, 0.1%Two prebiotics, FOS and MOS.
Glucosamine, MSM, chondroitin0.027% down to 0.019%Printed percentages, so you can see what goes in.

Taurine at 500 mg and L-carnitine at 100 mg per kilo, with trace minerals as sulphates and oxides, zinc the largest at 75 mg.

Named ingredients

Chicken Meal (24%), Whole Barley, Whole Maize, Rice, Poultry Oil (7%), Turkey Meal (4%), Sugar Beet Pellets (4%), Turkey Digest (2%), Salmon Oil (1%), Chicory Extract (as a source of Prebiotic FOS) (0.2%), Mannan-oligosaccharides (Prebiotic MOS) (0.1%), Glucosamine (0.027%), MSM (0.027%), Chondroitin (0.019%)

Against the range

One cereal-based recipe for small and medium adults. Chicken meal at 24% leads, turkey meal at 4% follows, and whole barley, whole maize and rice carry most of the energy. The label prints no moisture, so the dry-matter figures assume 8%.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

380 kcal/100g

Protein

25%

Fat

14%

Fibre

2.5%

Ash

6.5%

Dry weight

Protein

27.2%

Fat

15.2%

Fibre

2.7%

Ash

7.1%

Carbs

47.8%

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

30%

Carbs

61.6%

Veg

0.2%

Oils

Other

0.2%

Pricing & size