Nutriment

Nutriment Freeze Dried Food: Beef review

Name: Nutriment Freeze Dried Food: Beef
Brand: Nutriment

85.8/100Outstanding

Freeze-driedAdult

Flavour

Raw recipes with the water taken out and a long botanical tail added on. The beef and the chicken reach our Outstanding band and the lamb sits a step below in Excellent. Treat them as three foods, not three flavours: the lamb is far richer than the other two.

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Our view

Likely to suit

A dog on a single species plan, as each recipe names one animal and no other
Stiff or older dogs, with the joint pair dosed on every label
Raw ingredients without a freezer or a thawing routine
An unsettled gut, with prebiotics from a yeast product and chicory root
Fish-free households: no fish and no fish oil on any recipe

Worth watching

Moving onto the lamb means weighing a new, smaller portion
The chicken runs the highest protein, if your vet has asked for moderate
Packs hold 225g, so a large dog gets through one quickly

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

How this scores

How we score

85.8/100Outstanding

Protein and processingOutstanding

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueOutstanding

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults of every size. For a strict exclusion trial, ask Nutriment about the source of the zinc chelate of protein hydrolysates.

Food type

Freeze-dried

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Beef

The score, in context

Chicken 86.4
Beef 85.8
Lamb 75.4

Three recipes across Outstanding and Excellent. Typical dry food: Good.

Three labels built to the same standard and separated by their analyses, which favour the beef and the chicken without ruling the lamb out.

What's in it

Beef75%The only animal on the label.
Pumpkin8%The constant across the range.
Broccoli7.5%
Apple, raspberry2.75%, 2.5%
Minerals1.82%
Seaweed, beet pulp, dried seaweed0.5% down to 0.1%
Yeast product, dried chicory root0.075% eachTwo prebiotics working on the good bacteria in different ways.
Glucosamine, chondroitin sulphate, yucca schidigera0.05%, 0.05%, 0.025%Joint support with figures attached.
Ginger, turmeric, boswellia, black pepper0.25% down to 0.0025%A pairing that has travelled together for centuries. None of it moves the analysis.
Dandelion root, green tea, hawthorn leaf0.005% each

Dosed throughout, with selenium from a selenised yeast, tocopherols at 150mg to hold the fats and zinc as a chelate of protein hydrolysates with no stated source.

Named ingredients

Beef (75%), Pumpkin (8%), Broccoli (7.5%), Apple (2.75%), Raspberry (2.5%), Minerals (1.82%), Seaweed (0.5%), Beet Pulp (0.33%), Dried seaweed (0.1%), Yeast product (as a source of prebiotic MOS and beta glucans, 0.075%), Dried chicory root (as a source of prebiotic FOS, 0.075%), Glucosamine (0.05%), Chondroitin sulphate (0.05%), Yucca schidigera extract (0.025%), Dried dandelion root (0.005%), Green tea powder (0.005%), Dried hawthorn leaf (0.005%), Boswellia (0.025%), Ginger (0.25%), Turmeric (0.25%), Black Pepper (0.0025%).

Against the range

Protein, dry matter: 40.4%; 57.0% on the chicken, 23.5% on the lamb.
Fat, dry matter: 33.7%; 18.1% on the chicken, 58.2% on the lamb.
Herb tail: Ginger, turmeric, boswellia; Shared with the chicken; the lamb goes without.

The middle recipe of the three on both protein and fat.

Every recipe is 75% of one named animal, with no egg, no fish oil and no unnamed fat. Freeze drying at low temperature is why 75% can mean what it says. Pumpkin is the constant on the plant side, paired with different greens and fruit in each, all declared to two or three decimal places.

Glucosamine and chondroitin sulphate sit at 0.05% each on all three, with a yeast product and dried chicory root as prebiotics at 0.075%. The analyses differ sharply: protein from 23.5% to 57.0% of dry matter and fat from 18.1% to 58.2%. The herb tail changes too.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

442.5 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

39%

Fat

32.5%

Fibre

Ash

10.5%

Moisture

3.5%

Dry weight

Protein

40.4%

Fat

33.7%

Fibre

6.2%

Ash

10.9%

Carbs

8.8%

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

75%

Carbs

0.3%

Veg

19.2%

Other

5.5%

Pricing & size