Natures Menu Complete and Balanced 80/20 Puppy Chicken & Salmon Nuggets Dog Food

Name: Natures Menu Complete and Balanced 80/20 Puppy Chicken & Salmon Nuggets Dog Food
Brand: Natures Menu

RawCompletePuppyGrain-free

ExcellentTied 186th of 258 raw foods

Score v6.1.0 · label checked 10 Aug 2026

80% meat
Low starch, about 6% carbs
Raw, the least processed

First ingredients: Salmon (43%), Chicken (37%), Raspberry (4%), Swede (3%), Peas (3%)… All ingredients

Label checked

Meat: 80%
Protein, dry weight: 53%
Carbs, dry weight: ~6%
kcal/100 g: 83

Ingredients

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

Meat 80%
Plants 18%
Other 1%
No amount given 1%

Salmon (43%), Chicken (37%), Raspberry (4%), Swede (3%), Peas (3%), Carrots (3%), Apples (3%), Seaweed (1%), Spinach (1%), Sunflower Oil (1%), Yucca Extract, Green Tea Extract, Yeast Extract

Meat named animal protein

Additives

Vitamin E, Zinc (As Sulphate Monohydrate), Manganese (As Manganese Sulphate Monohydrate), Copper (As Copper (Ii) Sulphate Pentahydrate), Iodine (As Calcium Iodate)

How we read this label

Each ingredient on the label, how we read it, and the share the label gives
On the label	We read it as	Share on the label
Salmon (43%)	Named meat	43%
Chicken (37%)	Named meat	37%
Raspberry (4%)	Vegetable, fruit or plant	4%
Swede (3%)	Vegetable, fruit or plant	3%
Peas (3%)	Vegetable, fruit or plant	3%
Carrots (3%)	Vegetable, fruit or plant	3%
Apples (3%)	Vegetable, fruit or plant	3%
Seaweed (1%)	Vegetable, fruit or plant	1%
Spinach (1%)	Vegetable, fruit or plant	1%
Sunflower Oil (1%)	Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient	1%
Yucca Extract	Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient	Not given
Green Tea Extract	Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient	Not given
Yeast Extract	Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient	Not given

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Nutrition

Protein 53% and carbs about 6%, with the water taken out.

As soldwater is 81% of it

Water taken outhow foods are compared

Analysis as sold and with the water taken out
Nutrient	As sold	Dry weight
Protein	10%	53%
within the usual 42 to 56% for raw foods
Fat	5.2%	27%
Carbohydrate	~1.2%	~6.3%
within the usual 0 to 8% for raw foods
Fibre	0.7%	3.7%
Ash	1.9%	10%
Moisture	81%	taken out

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

Energy83 kcal/100 gCalculated from the analysis.

Why it scores 83

How it’s made scored best (20 of 20). Meat scored lowest (33.4 of 45).

How much meat?
33.4 / 45 points
- Meat on the label28 / 35 points
  80% declared meat, as weighed before cooking; full marks at 100%.
- Protein level5.4 / 10 points
  Protein is 52.6% of the food with the water taken out. Nothing at 20% or less, full marks at 80%.
How much starch?
17.9 / 20 points
Estimated carbohydrate: About 6.3% carbohydrate with the water taken out (our estimate). Full marks with no carbohydrate, none at 60% or more.
How processed?
20 / 20 points
How it’s made: Raw: 20 of 20.
What kind of meat?
12 / 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 meat0 / 3 points
  No organ meat named.

No ingredient deductions.

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

Against other raw foods

Tied 186th of 258 raw foods. 10 foods share this score. Each bar counts the ranked raw 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

1 noted, no points taken: yucca extract. 17 flagged nothing.

1 noted
17 nothing flagged

Yucca extractNoted, no points taken
Feed material (flavouring)
Why it’s noted and sources
Added to reduce stool odour. The ASPCA lists the yucca plant as toxic to dogs, and in a dog study the extract raised a liver enzyme at 750 mg/kg of food, though not at 500. Labels rarely give the amount. We note it, but take no points off.
Sources

17 ingredients with nothing flagged

Apples, carrot, chicken, green tea extract, peas, raspberries, salmon, seaweed, spinach, sunflower oil, swede, tocopherols (vitamin E), yeast

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

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

Sources for these ingredients