Natures Menu 80% Lamb Freeze Dried Nuggets

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Natures Menu 80% Lamb Freeze Dried Nuggets

Freeze-dried rawCompleteAdultGrain-free
74/ 100
GoodTied 19th of 29 freeze-dried and air-dried foods

Score v6.1.0 · label checked 4 Oct 2026

  • 80% meat
  • Low starch, about 10% carbs
  • Freeze-dried, not extruded
  • Added plant protein, starch or fibre

First ingredients: Lamb (80%), carrots (5%), apples (5%), pea fibre, butternut squash (1%)… All ingredients

Label checked
Meat
80%
Protein, dry weight
39%
Carbs, dry weight
~10%
kcal/100 g
450

Ingredients

Listed first: Lamb. 80% of the recipe is declared meat.

  • Meat 80%
  • Plants 12%
  • Other 1%
  • No amount given 7%

Lamb (80%), carrots (5%), apples (5%), pea fibre, butternut squash (1%), sweet potato (1%), minerals, cranberries (0.5%), blackberries (0.5%), flaxseed, chicory root, kale, peppermint, coconut oil, green tea, yucca, rosemary, parsley, dandelion root, hawthorn leaf

Meat named animal protein

Additives

per kg: Nutritional additives: Vitamin A (3133 IU), vitamin D (313 IU), vitamin E (44mg), zinc sulphate monohydrate [Zn: 57.3mg] (157mg), iron (II) sulphate monohydrate [Fe: 18.9mg] (63mg), copper (II) sulphate pentahydrate [Cu: 5.65mg] (22.6mg), calcium iodate anhydrous [I: 0.85mg] (1.3mg), selenised yeast Saccharomyes cerevisiae CNCM I-3060, inactivated [Se: 0.06mg] (27mg).

How we read this label

First ingredient: “Lamb”. It names the animal.

On the labelWe read it asShare on the label
Lamb (80%)Named meat80%
carrots (5%)Vegetable, fruit or plant5%
apples (5%)Vegetable, fruit or plant5%
pea fibreVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
butternut squash (1%)Vegetable, fruit or plant1%
sweet potato (1%)Vegetable, fruit or plant1%
mineralsOtherNot given
cranberries (0.5%)Vegetable, fruit or plant0.5%
blackberries (0.5%)Vegetable, fruit or plant0.5%
flaxseedVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
chicory rootVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
kaleVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
peppermintOtherNot given
coconut oilFat, stock, extract or other processed ingredientNot given
green teaVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
yuccaOtherNot given
rosemaryVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
parsleyVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
dandelion rootOtherNot given
hawthorn leafOtherNot given

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Nutrition

Protein 39% and carbs about 10%, with the water taken out.

As soldDry weight
Protein37%39%
below the usual 40 to 49% for freeze-dried and air-dried foods
Fat34%36%
Carbohydrate~9%~9.6%
within the usual 7 to 14% for freeze-dried and air-dried foods
Fibre6%6.4%
Ash8%8.5%
Moisture6%taken out

Carbohydrate is our estimate: what is left after the other shares. The usual range is the middle half of the freeze-dried and air-dried foods we rate.

Energy450 kcal/100 gCalculated from the analysis.

Why it scores 74

Starch scored best (16.8 of 20). Meat scored lowest (31.2 of 45).

  1. How much meat?

    31.2 / 45
    • Meat on the label28 / 35

      80% declared meat, as weighed before cooking; full marks at 100%.

    • Protein level3.2 / 10

      Protein is 39.4% of the food with the water taken out. Nothing at 20% or less, full marks at 80%.

  2. How much starch?

    16.8 / 20

    About 9.6% carbohydrate with the water taken out (our estimate). Full marks with no carbohydrate, none at 60% or more.

  3. How processed?

    14 / 20

    Freeze-dried: 15 of 20. Minus 1 for added plant protein, starch or fibre.

  4. What kind of meat?

    12 / 15
    • How the meat is listed12 / 12

      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 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 freeze-dried and air-dried foods

Tied 19th of 29 freeze-dried and air-dried foods. 5 foods share this score. Each bar counts the ranked freeze-dried and air-dried 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.

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Ingredient notes

3 noted, none cost points: mint, parsley and yucca extract. 25 flagged nothing.

  • 3 noted
  • 25 nothing flagged
25 ingredients with nothing flagged

Apples, blackberries, carrot, chicory root extract, coconut oil, cranberries, dandelion root, green tea extract, hawthorn, kale, lamb, linseed (flaxseed), minerals, pea fibre, pumpkin, rosemary, sweet potato, tocopherols (vitamin E)

Allowed up to a legal maximum, none declared above it: copper, iodine, iron, selenium, vitamin A (retinyl acetate), vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol), zinc

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

Lowest £23.75/kg at Jollyes, 52% below the dearest. Checked 4 Oct 2026.

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

ShopPackPricePer kg
Jollyes120g · £2.85 down 50% since 10 Aug120g£2.85£23.75/kgCheapest in stockVisit
Zooplus UKEconomy Pack: 2 x 625g · £39.29 down 6% since 10 AugEconomy Pack: 2 x 625g£39.29£31.43/kgVisit
Zooplus UK625g · £19.69 down 9% since 10 Aug625g£19.69£31.50/kgVisit
Jollyes250g · £8.40 down 20% since 10 Aug250g£8.40£33.60/kgVisit
Mobile Pet Foods250g · £10.99250g£10.99£43.96/kgVisit

Since 10 Aug (3 readings): Jollyes down 50%, Zooplus UK down 9%; 1 other shop unchanged.

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DayShopPackPricePer kg
4 Oct 2026Jollyes120g£2.85£23.75/kg
4 Oct 2026Jollyes250g£8.40£33.60/kg
4 Oct 2026Mobile Pet Foods120g£5.99£49.92/kg
4 Oct 2026Mobile Pet Foods250g£10.99£43.96/kg
4 Oct 2026Zooplus UK625g£19.69£31.50/kg
4 Oct 2026Zooplus UKEconomy Pack: 2 x 625g£39.29£31.43/kg
28 Sep 2026Mobile Pet Foods120g£5.99£49.92/kg
28 Sep 2026Mobile Pet Foods250g£10.99£43.96/kg
27 Sep 2026Jollyes120g£2.85£23.75/kg
27 Sep 2026Jollyes250g£8.40£33.60/kg
27 Sep 2026Zooplus UK625g£19.69£31.50/kg
27 Sep 2026Zooplus UKEconomy Pack: 2 x 625g£39.29£31.43/kg
10 Aug 2026Jollyes120g£5.70£47.50/kg
10 Aug 2026Jollyes250g£10.50£42.00/kg
10 Aug 2026Zooplus UK625g£21.59£34.54/kg
10 Aug 2026Zooplus UKEconomy Pack: 2 x 625g£41.69£33.35/kg

Your dog

Cost per day and grams for your dog

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Sources

Read from 3 shops, saved 4 Oct 2026.

Pages we read, saved 4 Oct 2026: Zooplus UK, Jollyes, Mobile Pet Foods.

Score method v6.1.0 · ingredient notes v2.4.0

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