Nutriment Sensitive Support review

Outstanding is the band our scoring gives this one, and the raw field's midpoint carries the same word, so it belongs squarely in the strongest company we cover rather than standing above it. Named meat at the head of every line, no filler and not one vague category word are what earn the place. The tripe-led build is what makes the recipe distinctive; the scoring simply confirms the label is as clean as it looks.

Ingredients, as declared: 30% Turkey with Bone, 25% Beef Green Tripe, 15% White Tripe, Butternut Squash, Broccoli, Green Curly Kale,Sunflower Seeds, Nettle, Slippery Elm, Spirulina, Chickweed, Oregano, Chicory

A ruminant's stomach is what tripe is, and the green sort has never been washed or bleached. That is why raw feeders prize it, and why it smells the way it does. Both kinds are here, green beef tripe at 25% and white tripe at 15%, so the recipe leans on a food dogs tend to accept even when they are off their dinner.

Turkey with bone at 30% is the structural half of the recipe. Bone ground into raw food is what supplies calcium in place of an added mineral, and turkey is a light meat that shows up often in gentle diets. Crude ash converts to 9.1% of dry matter, which is consistent with a bone-in build.

Butternut squash, broccoli and green curly kale carry the vegetable share, with sunflower seeds adding a little fat and vitamin E, and chicory closing the list. Chicory root is the inulin source, a soluble fibre that feeds the bacteria already living in the gut.

The herb tail is what gives the recipe its name. Slippery elm and chickweed both have long traditions as soothing plants, nettle and spirulina are there as mineral-dense greens, and oregano rounds the group off. All of them sit low down the list. Read them as thoughtful seasoning, not as a treatment.

The analysis lands lean and properly meaty. Protein converts to 52.0% of dry matter, fat to 28.2% and carbohydrate to an estimated 7.1% from a list with nothing starchy on it. Energy is estimated at 112 kcal per 100g, which is light for raw, so the portions on the label are generous ones.

£7.18 a kilo, sold in 500g packs.

For a 15kg adult dog in moderate condition, the standard maintenance estimate of about 840 kcal a day (110 × bodyweight^0.75) works out at roughly 747g of this food, or £5.36 a day. The label's own guide for a dog that size is 600g to 900g.