Nutriment

Nutriment Gently Cooked Medallions: Chicken review

Name: Nutriment Gently Cooked Medallions: Chicken
Brand: Nutriment

85.4/100Outstanding

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

85.4/100Outstanding

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

Chicken

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

Chicken meat66%Two thirds of the whole food, unusual for this range.
Skin, heart, liverMake the chicken up to 87%.
Carrot
Courgette, chicory3.0% each
Hemp oil, salmon oilFish on a chicken label.

The full dosed panel of vitamins A, D3 and E and six trace elements, set a little higher to match the energy.

Named ingredients

87 % chicken (66 % meat, skin, heart, liver), carrot, 3.0 % courgette, 3.0 % chicory, hemp oil, salmon oil.

Against the range

Energy: 192 kcal per 100g; The densest; 166.5 on the beef.
Fat, dry matter: 39.1%; 28.8% on the beef, 47.0% on the salmon.
Protein, dry matter: 38.5%; The lowest of the four.

The densest recipe, so portions run smallest here.

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

192.4 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

14.6%

Fat

14.8%

Fibre

0.64%

Ash

3.43%

Moisture

62.1%

Dry weight

Protein

38.5%

Fat

39.1%

Fibre

1.7%

Ash

9.1%

Carbs

11.6%

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

4.2%

Veg

7.6%

Oils

1.2%

Pricing & size