
Natures Menu Country Hunter Dog Food Wild Boar
Good points
- 55% meat
- Low starch, about 7% carbs
- One animal protein: pork
First ingredients: Boar (55%), Blackcurrant (3%), Apples (2%), Pumpkin Seed (3%), Butternut Squash (2%)… All ingredients
Ingredients match the maker’s own page- Meat
- 55%
- Protein, dry weight
- 50%
- Carbs, dry weight
- ~7%
- kcal/100 g
- 101
Ingredients
Listed first: Boar. 55% of the recipe is declared meat.
- Meat 55%
- Plants 13%
- No amount given 32%
Boar (55%), Blackcurrant (3%), Apples (2%), Pumpkin Seed (3%), Butternut Squash (2%), Broccoli (2%), Minerals, Kelp, Spinach (1%),Green Tea Extract, Sunflower Oil
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: “Boar”. It names the animal.
| On the label | We read it as | Share on the label |
|---|---|---|
| Boar (55%) | Named meat | 55% |
| Blackcurrant (3%) | Vegetable, fruit or plant | 3% |
| Apples (2%) | Vegetable, fruit or plant | 2% |
| Pumpkin Seed (3%) | Vegetable, fruit or plant | 3% |
| Butternut Squash (2%) | Vegetable, fruit or plant | 2% |
| Broccoli (2%) | Vegetable, fruit or plant | 2% |
| Minerals | Other | Not given |
| Kelp | Vegetable, fruit or plant | Not given |
| Spinach (1%) | Vegetable, fruit or plant | 1% |
| Green Tea Extract | Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient | Not given |
| Sunflower Oil | Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient | Not given |
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Nutrition
Protein 50% and carbs about 7%, with the water taken out.
| Nutrient | As sold | Dry weight |
|---|---|---|
| Protein | 11.4% | 50% |
| above the usual 38 to 48% for wet foods | ||
| Fat | 6.9% | 30% |
| Carbohydrate | ~1.7% | ~7.4% |
| below the usual 9 to 21% for wet foods | ||
| Fibre | 0.5% | 2.2% |
| Ash | 2.5% | 11% |
| Moisture | 77% | 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 61
Starch scored best (17.5 of 20). How it’s made scored lowest (8 of 20).
How much meat?
24.2 / 45 points- Meat on the label19.3 / 35 points
55% declared meat, as weighed before cooking; full marks at 100%.
- Protein level4.9 / 10 points
Protein is 49.6% of the food with the water taken out. Nothing at 20% or less, full marks at 80%.
How much starch?
17.5 / 20 pointsEstimated carbohydrate: About 7.4% 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 16 ingredients. 1 is not in our ingredient database yet.
16 ingredients with nothing flagged
Apples, blackcurrant, broccoli, green tea extract, minerals, pumpkin, seaweed, spinach, sunflower oil, 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)Apples, blackcurrant, broccoli, green tea extract, pumpkin, seaweed, spinach, sunflower oil, manganese, selenium, vitamin A (retinyl acetate), zinc
- Reg (EU) No 68/2013 - EU Catalogue of Feed Materials (EUR-Lex)Apples, blackcurrant, broccoli, green tea extract, minerals, pumpkin, seaweed, spinach, sunflower oil
- 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)
1 not in our ingredient database yet
Boar
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
Your dog
Grams a day for your dog
Alternatives
4 wet foods score 12 to 22 points higher.

- Meat
- 100% this food 55%
- Carbs
- about 4% this food about 7%
+22 pointsCompare

- Meat
- 72% this food 55%
- Carbs
- about 0% this food about 7%
+16 pointsCompare

- Meat
- 75% this food 55%
- Carbs
- about 0% this food about 7%
+12 pointsCompare

- Meat
- 75% this food 55%
- Carbs
- about 4% this food about 7%
+12 pointsCompare
Carbs are a share of the dry food, with the water taken out.
Sources
Matches the maker’s own page.
Checked against the maker. The ingredient list matches the one on the manufacturer’s own product page.
Page we read, saved 27 Sep 2026: Pets at Home.
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