Nutriment

Nutriment Gently Cooked Medallions: Beef review

Name: Nutriment Gently Cooked Medallions: Beef
Brand: Nutriment

86.2/100Outstanding

FreshAdult

Flavour

Gently cooked fresh food pressed into portioned discs, and all four recipes sit in our Outstanding band. Every label reads like a butcher's list, naming the tripe, heart and liver inside the meat share. They are cooked, so you get that list without raw-feeding hygiene.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Moving off dry food without taking on raw hygiene
Fussy dogs; gently cooked meat smells like dinner in a way a biscuit never manages
Offal lovers, with heart, liver, tripe and lung all named
Portioning done for you, in medallions
No land meat at all, on the Salmon recipe

Worth watching

Salmon oil in the Beef, Chicken and Lamb, so none of the four is fish free
Fridge or freezer space, and a defrosting habit
Adults only; a puppy needs a food built for growth

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

How this scores

How we score

86.2/100Outstanding

Protein and processingOutstanding

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueOutstanding

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adult dogs of every size. The maker's chart puts a 15kg adult at 320 to 480 grams a day, so weigh the first fortnight against your dog's waistline.

Food type

Fresh

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Beef

The score, in context

Salmon 86.6
Beef 86.2
Chicken 85.4
Lamb 84.7

All four Outstanding. Typical fresh food: Outstanding.

Keeping pace with the strongest field in our scoring, all four hold the top band with only a slight spread between them.

What's in it

Beef: muscle, tripe, kidneys, lungs, liver, heart, fat87% (17% muscle)Offal at a raw feeder's level, cooked through.
Chicory3.4%Inulin, a prebiotic.
Broccoli3.0%
Carrot
AppleThe only recipe with apple.
Salmon oil, hemp oilNamed fats; the salmon oil puts fish on a beef label.

Vitamins A, D3 and E with iron, iodine, copper, manganese, zinc and selenium, each dosed per kilo.

Named ingredients

87 % beef (17 % muscle, tripe, kidneys, lungs, liver, heart, fat), 3.4 % chicory, 3.0 % broccoli, carrot, apple, salmon oil, hemp oil

Against the range

Protein, dry matter: 41.3%; 38.5% on the chicken to 45.3% on the salmon.
Fat, dry matter: 28.8%; The leanest; up to 47.0% on the salmon.
Carbohydrate, dry matter: 18.0% (estimate); Zero on lamb and salmon.

The most evenly balanced of the four.

Every recipe is 87% animal, and each label opens that share to name the cuts inside, offal included. The plant side is small and named: chicory on every list, then a few vegetables and fruit at a few percent apiece. Hemp oil runs through all four, with salmon oil joining it on the Beef, Chicken and Lamb.

Moisture runs from 62.1% to 69.2%. The added panel is dosed per kilo and printed in full, and no recipe carries a gum, a bulking agent or a colour. What separates the four is the analysis, from the beef's even balance to the fat-heavy lamb and salmon.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

166.5 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

15.2%

Fat

10.6%

Fibre

1.33%

Ash

3.04%

Moisture

63.2%

Dry weight

Protein

41.3%

Fat

28.8%

Fibre

3.6%

Ash

8.3%

Carbs

18%

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

87%

Added water

Veg

8.4%

Oils

0.6%

Pricing & size