Nutriment Support Light review

This one earns our Outstanding band, matching the placing the raw category's own midpoint holds, and that is worth explaining. No field scores as strongly as raw, so keeping level with the middle of it takes a recipe that is honestly built. Protein and processing and nutritional balance both read Outstanding, as do transparency and value. The meat share is high and the list is short. The deliberately lean build takes nothing away, because our scoring still reads its balance as Outstanding against a category full of far richer recipes. For a dog that needs the calories dialled back, that trade is the whole reason you would buy it.

Ingredients, as declared: 30% White Tripe, 30% Turkey with Bone, 20% White Fish (Haddock, Pollock), Butternut Squash, Broccoli, Kale, cold pressed coconut oil, Kelp.

The animal side splits three ways. White tripe and turkey with bone take 30% each, and white fish, named on the label as haddock and pollock, takes 20%. Plenty of raw labels stop at the word fish. This one names haddock and pollock, and that detail is what separates a good raw label from a vague one.

The tripe is where the label goes quiet. Tripe is ruminant stomach, most often from cattle but sometimes from sheep, goats or deer. This list does not say which. For most dogs that is academic. Anyone running a strict exclusion plan should ask about that entry before ordering.

The analysis backs the name up. Protein converts to 58.1% of dry matter and fat to only 22.7%, which is genuinely lean for a raw recipe, with energy estimated at 109 kcal per 100g. Crude fibre converts to 8.5% of dry matter, which is high for raw. In a food meant to keep a dog feeling fed on fewer calories, that is useful.

Butternut squash, broccoli and kale make up the vegetable fraction, and the coconut oil is cold pressed rather than refined. Kelp closes the list as the iodine source, an ingredient best used sparingly, and it is used sparingly here at the very tail of the ingredients.

No added vitamin and mineral premix is printed. Nutriment leaves the bone, the fish and the kelp to carry that load, a coherent whole food position shared by plenty of the better raw brands. Crude ash converts to 4.6% of dry matter, on the low side for a bone-in recipe, so the bone share is a modest one.

£7.18 a kilo, sold in 500g packs.

A 15kg adult dog in moderate condition is taken at about 840 kcal a day, the standard maintenance estimate (110 × bodyweight^0.75). That comes to roughly 773g of this food, at £5.55 a day. A lighter food feeds in bigger portions, which is why the daily figure lands where it does. For the same dog, the label asks 600g to 900g.