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Natural Instinct Working Dog Beef & Chicken
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It scores 79 out of 100 (Excellent), tied 227th of 263 raw foods. It is a complete raw food for adult dogs with 85% declared meat, at £5.09 per kg. Price checked .
ExcellentTied 227th of 263 raw foods
Good points
- 85% meat
- Raw, the least processed
- No ingredient deductions
First ingredients: beef green tripe 20%, beef heart 5%, beef liver 5%, beef spleen 5%, beef trachea and lobe 10%… All ingredients
Label taken from the maker’s website- Meat
- 85%
- Protein
- Not on label
- Carbs, dry weight
- Not on label
- kcal/100 g
- Not on label
Ingredients
Listed first: Beef green tripe. 85% of the recipe is declared meat.
- Meat 85%
- No amount given 15%
beef green tripe 20%, beef heart 5%, beef liver 5%, beef spleen 5%, beef trachea and lobe 10%, chicken 40%, apple, butternut squash, carrot, kelp, salmon oil, spinach, vitamin c
Meat named animal protein
From the maker’s website, checked 20 Oct 2026.
How we read this label
| On the label | We read it as | Share on the label |
|---|---|---|
| beef green tripe 20% | Named meat | 20% |
| beef heart 5% | Named meat | 5% |
| beef liver 5% | Named meat | 5% |
| beef spleen 5% | Named meat | 5% |
| beef trachea and lobe 10% | Named meat | 10% |
| chicken 40% | Named meat | 40% |
| apple | Vegetable, fruit or plant | Not given |
| butternut squash | Vegetable, fruit or plant | Not given |
| carrot | Vegetable, fruit or plant | Not given |
| kelp | Vegetable, fruit or plant | Not given |
| salmon oil | Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient | Not given |
| spinach | Vegetable, fruit or plant | Not given |
| vitamin c | Other | Not given |
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Nutrition
The label gives no analysis.
EnergyNot on label
Why it scores 79
Full marks for how it’s made and the kind of meat. Starch scored lowest (10 of 20).
How much meat?
34.8 / 45 points- Meat on the label29.8 / 35 points
85% declared meat, as weighed before cooking; full marks at 100%.
- Protein level5 / 10 points
The label doesn’t give the protein and moisture we need: half marks.
How much starch?
10 / 20 pointsEstimated carbohydrate: The label doesn’t give enough of its analysis to estimate the carbohydrate: half marks.
How processed?
20 / 20 pointsHow it’s made: Raw: 20 of 20.
What kind of meat?
15 / 15 points- How the meat is listed12 / 12 points
The label lists the meat as fresh, which earns 100% of these points. Fresh or raw named meat earns all of them, dried 70%, meal half, hydrolysed a quarter, an unnamed category none.
- Organ meat3 / 3 points
Organ meat such as liver, heart, kidney or tripe is named.
No ingredient deductions.
Each bar is as long as the points it is worth, out of 100 in all.
Against other raw foods
What the score means
One scale for every food: meat (45 points), starch (20), how it’s made (20) and kind of meat (15), minus points for a few listed ingredients. It rates the recipe, not your dog.
75 and over is excellent, 60 to 74 good, 45 to 59 fair and under 45 weak.
How we rate foods →Ingredient notes
Nothing flagged in 11 ingredients.
11 ingredients with nothing flagged
Apples, beef, carrot, chicken, heart (animal organ), liver (animal organ), pumpkin, salmon oil, seaweed, spinach, vitamin C (ascorbic acid)
Checked against the EU Catalogue of Feed Materials and FEDIAF guidelines.
Sources for these ingredients
- Reg (EU) No 68/2013 - EU Catalogue of Feed Materials (EUR-Lex)Apples, beef, carrot, chicken, heart (animal organ), liver (animal organ), pumpkin, salmon oil, seaweed, spinach
- FEDIAF Nutritional Guidelines for Complete and Complementary Pet Food for Cats and Dogs (2025)Apples, heart (animal organ), liver (animal organ), pumpkin, seaweed, spinach
- Reg (EU) 68/2013 Catalogue of feed materials, Part C (legislation.gov.uk)Seaweed
Notes come from published sources about each ingredient, not about this food. How we decide
Prices
One shop we track sells this: Natural Instinct. Checked 20 Oct 2026.
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Your dog
Daily calories for your dog
Alternatives
4 raw foods score 18 to 20 points higher and cost up to 2% more.
Sources
Taken from the maker’s page, checked 20 Oct 2026.
From the maker’s website. The ingredients and analysis here are the maker’s current label, from their product page, checked 20 Oct 2026. Shops may still stock packs with the older recipe.
Page we read, saved 20 Oct 2026: Natural Instinct (the maker).
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