Nutriment

Nutriment Gently Cooked Medallions: Salmon review

Name: Nutriment Gently Cooked Medallions: Salmon
Brand: Nutriment

86.6/100Outstanding

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

86.6/100Outstanding

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

Salmon

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

Salmon: belly, minced salmon87% (40% belly)One species and no oil borrowed from another.
Chicory
Pumpkin, courgette1.8% each
Peas
Hemp oilThe only added oil.
Carrot

The fullest doses in the range: vitamins A, D3 and E, with iron, iodine, copper, manganese, zinc and selenium.

The only recipe with no land animal on the label.

Named ingredients

87% salmon (40% belly, minced salmon), chicory, 1.8% pumpkin, 1.8% courgette, peas, hemp oil, carrot

Against the range

Animals: Salmon only; The others add salmon oil to a land meat.
Fat, dry matter: 47.0%; The richest; 28.8% on the beef.
Protein, dry matter: 45.3%; The highest in the range.

For a dog kept off land meat, this is the one to buy.

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

173.5 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

14.1%

Fat

14.61%

Fibre

1.41%

Ash

3.67%

Moisture

68.9%

Dry weight

Protein

45.3%

Fat

47%

Fibre

4.5%

Ash

11.8%

Carbs

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

5.6%

Carbs

1.5%

Veg

5.4%

Oils

0.4%

Pricing & size