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Natures Menu Country Hunter Dog Food Pheasant & Goose
Good points
- Low starch, about 14% carbs
- No ingredient deductions
- High protein, 51% dry weight
First ingredients: Pheasant (40%), Goose (4%), Redcurrant (3.5%), Pears (3%), Pumpkin Seeds (3%)… All ingredients
Label checked- Meat
- 44%
- Protein, dry weight
- 51%
- Carbs, dry weight
- ~14%
- kcal/100 g
- 92
Ingredients
Listed first: Pheasant. 44% of the recipe is declared meat.
- Meat 44%
- Plants 15.5%
- Other 3.5%
- No amount given 37%
Pheasant (40%), Goose (4%), Redcurrant (3.5%), Pears (3%), Pumpkin Seeds (3%), Butternut Squash (3%), Broccoli (3%), Cod Liver Oil (1.5%), Kelp (0.7%), Spinach (0.7%), Green Tea Extract (0.6%)
Meat named animal protein
Additives
Vitamin A 3000iu, Vitamin D3 200iu, Vitamin E 30mg. Trace Elements: Zinc sulphate monohydrate 15mg, Manganese sulphate monohydrate 3mg, Calcium iodate 0.75mg, Sodium selenite 0.03mg.
How we read this label
First ingredient: “Pheasant”. It names the animal.
| On the label | We read it as | Share on the label |
|---|---|---|
| Pheasant (40%) | Named meat | 40% |
| Goose (4%) | Named meat | 4% |
| Redcurrant (3.5%) | Vegetable, fruit or plant | 3.5% |
| Pears (3%) | Vegetable, fruit or plant | 3% |
| Pumpkin Seeds (3%) | Vegetable, fruit or plant | 3% |
| Butternut Squash (3%) | Vegetable, fruit or plant | 3% |
| Broccoli (3%) | Vegetable, fruit or plant | 3% |
| Cod Liver Oil (1.5%) | Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient | 1.5% |
| Kelp (0.7%) | Vegetable, fruit or plant | 0.7% |
| Spinach (0.7%) | Vegetable, fruit or plant | 0.7% |
| Green Tea Extract (0.6%) | Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient | 0.6% |
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Nutrition
Protein 51% and carbs about 14%, with the water taken out.
| Nutrient | As sold | Dry weight |
|---|---|---|
| Protein | 11.2% | 51% |
| above the usual 38 to 48% for wet foods | ||
| Fat | 5% | 23% |
| Carbohydrate | ~3% | ~14% |
| within the usual 9 to 21% for wet foods | ||
| Fibre | 0.5% | 2.3% |
| Ash | 2.3% | 10% |
| Moisture | 78% | taken out |
Carbohydrate is our estimate: what is left after the other shares. The usual range is the middle half of the wet foods we rate.
Why it scores 56
The kind of meat scored best (12 of 15). How it’s made scored lowest (8 of 20).
How much meat?
20.6 / 45 points- Meat on the label15.4 / 35 points
44% declared meat, as weighed before cooking; full marks at 100%.
- Protein level5.2 / 10 points
Protein is 50.9% of the food with the water taken out. Nothing at 20% or less, full marks at 80%.
How much starch?
15.5 / 20 pointsEstimated carbohydrate: About 13.6% carbohydrate with the water taken out (our estimate). Full marks with no carbohydrate, none at 60% or more.
How processed?
8 / 20 pointsHow it’s made: Cooked in the tin, tray or pouch: 8 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.
Each bar is as long as the points it is worth, out of 100 in all.
Against other wet 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 14 ingredients. 3 are not in our ingredient database yet.
14 ingredients with nothing flagged
Broccoli, fish oil, green tea extract, pear, pumpkin, seaweed, spinach, tocopherols (vitamin E)
Allowed up to a legal maximum, none declared above it: iodine, manganese, selenium, vitamin A (retinyl acetate), vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol), zinc
Checked against the EU Catalogue of Feed Materials and FEDIAF guidelines.
Sources for these ingredients
- FEDIAF Nutritional Guidelines for Complete and Complementary Pet Food for Cats and Dogs (2025)Broccoli, green tea extract, pear, pumpkin, seaweed, spinach, manganese, selenium, vitamin A (retinyl acetate), zinc
- Reg (EU) No 68/2013 - EU Catalogue of Feed Materials (EUR-Lex)Broccoli, fish oil, green tea extract, pear, pumpkin, seaweed, spinach
- Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/1152Tocopherols (vitamin E)
- Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2016/1095 (EUR-Lex)Zinc
- Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/1490 (EUR-Lex)Manganese
- Directive 2002/32/EC Annex I (as amended) (EUR-Lex)Selenium
- EFSA 2018 opinion on green tea catechins (PMC7009618)Green tea extract
- EFSA J 2013;11(2):3100 doi:10.2903/j.efsa.2013.3100Iodine
- FDA Animal Health Literacy - Vitamin D toxicity in dogsVitamin D3 (cholecalciferol)
- Reg (EU) 68/2013 Catalogue of feed materials, Part C (legislation.gov.uk)Seaweed
- Regulation (EU) 2015/861 (EUR-Lex)Iodine
- Regulation (EU) 2017/1492 (EUR-Lex)Vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol)
3 not in our ingredient database yet
Goose, pheasant, redcurrant
Not in our ingredient database yet, so no judgement either way.
Notes come from published sources about each ingredient, not about this food. How we decide
Prices
One shop we track sells this: Pets at Home. Checked 4 Oct 2026. Up 11% since 10 Aug.
In stock first, cheapest per kg first, excluding deliveryExcluding delivery
| Shop | Pack | Price | Per kg | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pets at Home1 x 600g · £5.19 up 11% since 10 Aug | 1 x 600g | £5.19 | £8.65/kg | Visit |
Since 10 Aug (3 readings): Pets at Home up 11%.
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| Day | Shop | Pack | Price | Per kg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 Oct 2026 | Pets at Home | 1 x 600g | £5.19 | £8.65/kg |
| 27 Sep 2026 | Pets at Home | 1 x 600g | £4.67 | £7.78/kg |
| 10 Aug 2026 | Pets at Home | 1 x 600g | £4.67 | £7.78/kg |
Your dog
Cost per day and grams for your dog
Alternatives
4 wet foods score 15 to 27 points higher at the same price or less.

- Meat
- 100% this food 44%
- Carbs
- about 4% this food about 14%
- To feed
- 26% less per 1,000 kcal
+27 pointsCompare

- Meat
- 72% this food 44%
- Carbs
- about 0% this food about 14%
- To feed
- 11% less per 1,000 kcal
+21 pointsCompare

- Meat
- 75% this food 44%
- Carbs
- about 4% this food about 14%
- To feed
- 46% less per 1,000 kcal
+17 pointsCompare

- Meat
- 71% this food 44%
- Carbs
- about 8% this food about 14%
- To feed
- 15% less per 1,000 kcal
+15 pointsCompare
Carbs are a share of the dry food, with the water taken out.
Sources
Read from 1 shop, saved 4 Oct 2026.
Page we read, saved 4 Oct 2026: Pets at Home.
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