NutriPaw

NutriPaw Freeze Dried Raw Food: Beef review

Name: NutriPaw Freeze Dried Raw Food: Beef
Brand: NutriPaw

76.5/100Excellent

Freeze-driedAdult

Flavour

Outstanding chicken and Excellent beef, freeze-dried, on labels six lines long with a percentage on every one. The two read almost identically and feed very differently, so the choice is about the dog more than the flavour.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Owners who want every ingredient named and weighed
Exclusion diets: one animal per bag, no egg or fish oil
Raw ingredients kept on a cupboard shelf, with no freezer needed
Adult dogs from toy breeds to giants
Stocking up, with packs from 500g to 4kg

Worth watching

Beef is fat led and chicken protein led, so a switch between them is a real change of diet
A large mineral fraction and the least fibre in the beef
Dense food. Weigh the first portions and put the old scoop away

Written by our editorial team. Independent guidance, not veterinary advice.

How this scores

How we score

76.5/100Excellent

Protein and processingOutstanding

Nutritional balanceGood

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueExcellent

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults of every size. Pick the beef for a dog with real work in its day and the chicken for one that puts weight on easily.

Food type

Freeze-dried

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Beef

The score, in context

Chicken 84.6
Beef 76.5

Two recipes across Outstanding and Excellent. Typical dry food: Good.

The format sets a high bar and both meet it; the chicken takes the stronger reading, the beef the richer analysis.

What's in it

Beef80%Freeze-dried, so the share means what it says.
Sweet potato6%
Carrot4.5%
Pea3%Whole peas, with their fibre, not a refined pea protein.
Apple, strawberry2% each

Vitamins A, D3, E and biotin, with zinc as a chelate of protein hydrolysates, selenium as inactivated selenised yeast and rosemary oil extract keeping the fats fresh.

The zinc chelate's protein source is not named, the one line an elimination trial should account for.

Named ingredients

Beef 80%, Sweet Potato 6%, Carrot 4.5%, Pea 3%, Apple 2%, Strawberry 2%

Against the range

Fat, dry matter: 48.0%; 24.7% on the chicken.
Protein, dry matter: 26.5%; 56.7% on the chicken.
Ash, dry matter: 17.3%; 10.3% on the chicken.
Energy: 527 kcal per 100g; 447 on the chicken.
Biotin: On the panel; Not on the chicken's.

The richer bag by some distance, suited to a working dog.

Both bags hold six named, weighed ingredients: 80% meat, then sweet potato at 6%, carrot at 4.5%, whole pea at 3%, apple at 2% and one berry at 2%. Freeze drying takes the water out at low temperature, so the meat stays concentrated and portions are small.

The two analyses part company sharply. The beef is fat and bone rich; the chicken is protein led with far less ash. Both carry the same per-kilo vitamin and mineral panel, with selenium from yeast and zinc as a chelate of unsourced protein hydrolysates.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

527 kcal/100g

Protein

26%

Fat

47%

Fibre

Ash

17%

Moisture

Dry weight

Protein

26.5%

Fat

48%

Fibre

Ash

17.3%

Carbs

7.2%

As-fed composition

Estimated breakdown of the finished product by ingredient category, from the declared ingredient list and ingoing weights. These are estimates, not measurements.

Meat

82.1%

Carbs

9.2%

Veg

6.7%

Other

2.1%

Pricing & size