Nature's Variety No Grain Medium/Maxi Puppy Salmon

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Nature's Variety No Grain Medium/Maxi Puppy Salmon

DryCompletePuppyGrain-free
37/ 100
WeakTop 28% of dry foods

89% of dry foods score under 45.

Score v6.1.0 · label checked 4 Oct 2026

  • No ingredient deductions
  • Some meat not named by animal
  • Added plant protein, starch or fibre
  • Includes hydrolysed protein

First ingredients: Deboned salmon* (20%), dried tuna protein (18%), dried peas* (15%), dried potato* (8%), potato protein… All ingredients

Retailer’s own label, fully checked
Meat
38%
Protein, dry weight
36%
Carbs, dry weight
~32%
kcal/100 g
375

Ingredients

Listed first: Deboned salmon. 38% of the recipe is declared meat.

  • Meat 38%
  • Plants 27%
  • Other 11.8%
  • No amount given 23.2%

Deboned salmon* (20%), dried tuna protein (18%), dried peas* (15%),dried potato* (8%), potato protein, poultry fat* (7%), sweet potato* (4%), hydrolysed animal protein (4%, poultry, pork, fish), pea starch*, beet pulp*, minerals, pea protein*, dried carrot* (0.5%, equivalent to 4% fresh carrot), dried apple* (0.3%, equivalent to 2% fresh apple), dried algae* (0.01%, seaweed), dried rosemary* (0.01%> *natural ingredients

Meat named animal protein

Additives

per kg: Nutritional additives: Vitamin A (27,000 IU), vitamin E (650mg), vitamin C (300mg), zinc sulphate monohydrate (315mg), sodium selenite (0.24mg), potassium iodide (1.9mg), manganous sulphate monohydrate (123mg), ferrous-(II)-sulphate monohydrate (260mg), cupric-(II)-sulphate pentahydrate (33mg).

How we read this label

First ingredient: “Deboned salmon*”. It names the animal.

On the labelWe read it asShare on the label
Deboned salmon* (20%)Named meat20%
dried tuna protein (18%)Named meat18%
dried peas* (15%)Vegetable, fruit or plant15%
dried potato* (8%)Vegetable, fruit or plant8%
potato proteinVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
poultry fat* (7%)Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient7%
sweet potato* (4%)Vegetable, fruit or plant4%
hydrolysed animal protein (4%, poultry, pork, fish)Other4%
pea starch*Vegetable, fruit or plantNot given
beet pulp*Vegetable, fruit or plantNot given
mineralsOtherNot given
pea protein*Vegetable, fruit or plantNot given
dried carrot* (0.5%, equivalent to 4% fresh carrot)Vegetable, fruit or plant0.5%
dried apple* (0.3%, equivalent to 2% fresh apple)Vegetable, fruit or plant0.3%
dried algae* (0.01%, seaweed)Vegetable, fruit or plant0.01%
dried rosemary* (0.01%> *natural ingredientsVegetable, fruit or plant0.01%

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Nutrition

Protein 36% and carbs about 32%, with the water taken out.

As soldDry weight
Protein32%36%
above the usual 26 to 32% for dry foods
Fat19%21%
Carbohydrate~29%~32%
below the usual 39 to 50% for dry foods
Fibre3%3.3%
Ash7%7.8%
Moisturenot on label, 10% assumed10%taken out

Carbohydrate is our estimate: what is left after the other shares. The usual range is the middle half of the dry foods we rate.

Energy375 kcal/100 gCalculated from the analysis.

Why it scores 37

The kind of meat scored best (8.4 of 15). How it’s made scored lowest (4 of 20).

  1. How much meat?

    15.9 / 45
    • Meat on the label13.3 / 35

      38% declared meat, as weighed before cooking; full marks at 100%.

    • Protein level2.6 / 10

      Protein is 35.6% of the food with the water taken out. Nothing at 20% or less, full marks at 80%.

  2. How much starch?

    9.3 / 20

    About 32.2% carbohydrate with the water taken out (our estimate). Full marks with no carbohydrate, none at 60% or more.

  3. How processed?

    4 / 20

    Extruded kibble: 6 of 20. Minus 2 for added plant protein, starch or fibre and hydrolysed protein.

  4. What kind of meat?

    8.4 / 15
    • How the meat is listed8.4 / 12

      The label lists the meat as fresh, meal and unnamed hydrolysed, which earns 70% of these points. Fresh or raw named meat earns all of them, dried 70%, meal half, hydrolysed a quarter, an unnamed category none.

    • Organ meat0 / 3

      No organ meat named.

No ingredient deductions.

Each bar is as long as the points it is worth, out of 100 in all.

Against other dry foods

Top 28% of dry foods. 37 foods share this score. Each bar counts the ranked dry foods in a 5-point step of score.

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 →

Less starch in the bowl

Half and half by calories with Forthglade Puppy Chicken & Liver Wet Dog Food (scores 73): carbs fall from 32% to 18% by dry weight, and protein is about 39%.

Worked out from both labels, for half the day’s calories from each food. The feeding guides on the packs still set the amounts.

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Ingredient notes

1 noted: hydrolysed proteins. 22 flagged nothing.

  • 1 noted
  • 22 nothing flagged
22 ingredients with nothing flagged

Algae, apples, beet pulp, carrot, fish, minerals, peas, potato, poultry fat, salmon, starch, sweet potato, tocopherols (vitamin E), vegetable protein extracts, vitamin C (ascorbic acid)

Allowed up to a legal maximum, none declared above it: copper, iodine, manganese, selenium, vitamin A (retinyl acetate), zinc

We couldn’t read an amount we can check on the label, so no points were taken: iron

Checked against the EU Catalogue of Feed Materials and FEDIAF guidelines.

Sources for these ingredients

Notes come from published sources about each ingredient, not about this food. How we decide

Prices

One shop we track sells this: Zooplus UK. Checked 4 Oct 2026.

In stock first, cheapest per kg first, excluding deliveryExcluding delivery

ShopPackPricePer kg
Zooplus UKEconomy Pack: 2 x 12kg · £156.49Economy Pack: 2 x 12kg£156.49£6.52/kgCheapest in stockVisit
Zooplus UK12kg · £84.79 up 2% since 10 Aug12kg£84.79£7.07/kgVisit

Since 10 Aug (3 readings): Zooplus UK up 2%.

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DayShopPackPricePer kg
4 Oct 2026Zooplus UK12kg£84.79£7.07/kg
4 Oct 2026Zooplus UKEconomy Pack: 2 x 12kg£156.49£6.52/kg
27 Sep 2026Zooplus UK12kg£84.79£7.07/kg
27 Sep 2026Zooplus UKEconomy Pack: 2 x 12kg£156.49£6.52/kg
10 Aug 2026Zooplus UK12kg£83.09£6.92/kg
10 Aug 2026Zooplus UKEconomy Pack: 2 x 12kg£155.49£6.48/kg

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Cost per day and grams for your dog

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Carbs
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Carbs are a share of the dry food, with the water taken out.

Sources

Own-label food: checked against the retailer’s label.

Retailer-verified. This is the retailer’s own-label food, so there is no separate maker’s website to check it against. We publish it because the retailer’s label is complete and passes our consistency checks.

Page we read, saved 4 Oct 2026: Zooplus UK.

Score method v6.1.0 · ingredient notes v2.4.0

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