Nutriment Liver Support review

Our Outstanding band is where this recipe finishes, the top of our scale, and it does so in the most demanding company we score, since adult raw as a category sits at that same mark. It gets there on the named fish lead, the working organ meats, the total absence of filler and a carbohydrate estimate that barely moves. Protein and processing, nutritional balance, transparency and value all read Outstanding.

Ingredients, as declared: 60% White Fish (Haddock, Pollock), 15% Tripe, 10% Beef heart, 5% Beef liver, Butternut Squash, Pumpkin Seeds, Sunflower Seeds,Broccoli, Parsley, Dandelion Root Powder, Basil, Kelp

White fish at 60% is the whole character of this recipe, and Nutriment names the species: haddock and pollock, two lean whitefish with mild flavour and easily digested protein. Compared with an oily fish they bring far less fat, which is exactly why the analysis reads as light as it does.

Tripe at 15% is the second entry, and the one ingredient whose animal goes unnamed. Tripe is ruminant stomach, usually beef in British pet food, and few ingredients are as digestible. On a label this specific elsewhere, the missing species is a small omission.

What the fish cannot supply comes from beef heart at 10%, with beef liver at 5% alongside. Heart is dense muscle meat, and liver is the micronutrient engine of any raw recipe, carrying vitamin A, B12, copper and selenium in a highly absorbable form. With no vitamin and mineral panel published, that small liver share is doing significant work.

The plant end of the list is unusually herbal. Butternut squash and broccoli handle the vegetables, pumpkin and sunflower seeds add fibre and fats, and parsley, dandelion root, basil and kelp finish it. Kelp is the classic whole-food route to iodine. None of these entries carries a printed percentage, so read them as deliberate garnish rather than as a measured supplement.

The analysis is light and wet in equal measure. Moisture is declared at 75.0%, and on a dry-matter basis protein converts to 48.0% and fat to 28.8%, with crude fibre and crude ash each at 8.0% and carbohydrate estimated at 7.2%. Energy comes out at 110 kcal per 100g on our estimate from the declared analysis, well under the 155 kcal typical for raw. That is why the portions this recipe asks for are so generous on the scales.

£9.38 a kilo, in a 500g pack.

On the standard maintenance estimate (110 × bodyweight^0.75), a 15kg adult dog in moderate condition needs around 840 kcal a day, which this food covers with roughly 767g, or £7.20.