Nutriment Raw Nuggets Puppy: Turkey review

This puppy recipe earns our Outstanding band and lands right about where the raw puppy field's middle falls, which carries the same band word. Raw sets a punishing standard on our scoring, so holding the middle in that company takes a properly built label. Equal shares of turkey muscle and beef offal, a short and legible plant list, and a mineral panel printed with real figures are what do it here.

Ingredients, as declared: Turkey 43% (Muscle meat), Beef 43% (Tripe, Kidney, Liver), Pumpkin, Broccoli, Chicory, Blueberry, Kelp, Coconut Oil, Algae Oil, Minerals. Minerals:3a672a / Vitamin A 6,500 IU/kg, 3a671 / Vitamin D3 650 IU/kg, 3a700 / Vitamin E 100 mg/kg, 1a327 / Calcium 5415mg/kg, 3b103 / Iron 50 mg/kg, 3b202 / Iodine 0.78 mg/kg, 3b405 / Copper 2.5 mg/kg, 3b406 / Copper 2.5 mg/kg, 3b503 / Manganese 20 mg/kg, 3b605 / Zinc 50 mg/kg, 3b801 / Selenium 0.15 mg/kg

Two animals share the top of the label in equal measure. Turkey brings the muscle meat at 43% and beef brings the organs at 43%, itemised as tripe, kidney and liver. Built that way, the recipe carries a proper organ load, and organs hold much of the micronutrition in any animal.

No part of this list carries bone, which is unusual in raw and explains why the mineral panel matters. Calcium is declared at 5415 mg per kilo of food, with vitamin A at 6,500 IU and vitamin D3 at 650 IU alongside it. Growth is the stage where calcium counts for most, so a printed figure is welcome. A calcium percentage is missing from the analysis, and that is the figure an owner of a large breed puppy would hold against growth guidance.

The plant side is short and recognisable: pumpkin, broccoli, chicory, blueberry and kelp. Inulin comes from the chicory root, a soluble fibre that the gut's own bacteria live on. Kelp is the traditional whole food route to iodine. Coconut oil and algae oil close the list, the algae supplying the long chain omega 3 fats that would otherwise come from fish, so there is no fish in this bowl at all.

The analysis reads exactly as the ingredients promise. Protein converts to 40.4% of dry matter and fat to 38.2%, with carbohydrate estimated at 9.6% from a list carrying nothing starchy. That figure is best understood as the arithmetic sweeping up whatever is not measured separately. Energy is estimated at 157 kcal per 100g.

One small quirk sits in the mineral list: copper appears twice under two different additive codes, each at 2.5 mg per kilo. Duplicated entries of that kind are almost always a printing artefact rather than a double dose, and the rest of the panel reads as a conventional and sensibly proportioned top-up.

£6.59 a kilo, sold in 1kg bags of loose nuggets.

The label sets its own guide by puppy weight, running from 80g to 120g a day for a 2kg puppy, 400g to 600g at 10kg, and 1400g to 2100g for a 35kg one.