Nutriment Low Purine & Phosphorus Support review

Raw is where our scoring is hardest to impress, with the middle of the adult category already an Outstanding-band food. This recipe lands a step below that middle in our Excellent band, which is a genuine result for a label working to a much narrower brief than a general-purpose range. What earns it is straightforward: named animal ingredients with printed percentages, no filler of any kind and a carbohydrate estimate that stays small. Protein and processing and nutritional balance both read Outstanding, with transparency Good and value Excellent behind them.

Ingredients, as declared: Contains 80% fresh meat and bone. 50% Beef Green Tripe, 30% Chicken with Bone, Carrots, Butternut Squash, Sesame Seeds, Sunflower Seeds, Kelp, Blueberry Powder, Cherry Powder

Beef green tripe at 50% is the base. Green tripe means a stomach left uncleaned and unbleached, the version raw feeders actually want. Digestive enzymes and friendly bacteria come with it. Protein and fat are both high, and a dog's gut handles it famously well. The smell is the one thing owners have to make peace with, and no dog has ever complained about it.

Chicken with bone at 30% supplies the rest of the meat and, more importantly, the calcium. In a recipe with no mineral panel behind it, the ground bone is the entire skeletal mineral story, which makes chicken the structural choice as much as the flavour one.

What is not on this label matters as much as what is. There is no liver, no kidney and no fish, the three groups that carry the most purines in an everyday diet, and their absence is plainly the point of the recipe. That is a design decision worth understanding: the trade is that the micronutrient density organ meats bring has to be found elsewhere.

The plant tail is short and mostly familiar. Carrots bring vitamin A, soluble fibre and antioxidants, butternut squash backs them up, and sesame and sunflower seeds add fat and fibre. Kelp is the usual whole-food source of iodine. Blueberry and cherry powders close the list at trace level, and neither carries a printed percentage, so they read as antioxidant garnish.

The analysis reads lean. Protein converts to 47.4% of dry matter and fat to 29.5%, with crude ash at 9.0% consistent with the bone in the chicken. Carbohydrate is estimated by difference at 9.6% of dry matter against a 5.0% median for raw. That is what the vegetable and seed tail adds up to. Energy works out at 121 kcal per 100g on our estimate from the declared analysis. That is under the 155 kcal typical for raw, so this food feeds in generous portions.

£5.21 a kilo, in 500g and 1.4kg packs.

For a 15kg adult dog in moderate condition, needing about 840 kcal a day (110 × bodyweight^0.75, the standard maintenance estimate), a day's feeding comes to about 696g, or £3.63.