Natures Menu Freeze Dried Chicken Raw Dog Food

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Natures Menu Freeze Dried Chicken Raw Dog Food

Freeze-dried rawCompleteAdultGrain-free
75/ 100
ExcellentTied 16th of 29 freeze-dried and air-dried foods

Score v6.1.0 · label checked 4 Oct 2026

  • 80% meat
  • Low starch, about 6% carbs
  • Freeze-dried, not extruded
  • Added plant protein, starch or fibre

First ingredients: Chicken (80%), Carrots (5%), Apples (5%), Pea Fibre (1.25%), Butternut Squash (1%)… All ingredients

Label checked
Meat
80%
Protein, dry weight
42%
Carbs, dry weight
~6%
kcal/100 g
430

Ingredients

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

  • Meat 80%
  • Plants 13.3%
  • Other 2%
  • No amount given 4.8%

Chicken (80%), Carrots (5%), Apples (5%), Pea Fibre (1.25%), Butternut Squash (1%), Sweet Potato (1%), Minerals (1%), Blackberries (0.5%), Cranberries (0.5%), Flaxseed, Chicory Root, Kale, Peppermint, Coconut Oil, Beet Pulp, Green Tea, Yucca, Rosemary, Parsley, Dandelion Root, Hawthorn Leaf

Meat named animal protein

Additives

Vitamin A (1000IU/kg), Vitamin D (100IU/kg), Vitamin E (14mg/kg), Iron (Ii) Sulphate Monohydrate (20mg/kg), Calcium Iodate Anhydrous (0.4mg/kg), Copper (Ii) Sulphate Pentahydrate (7.2mg/kg), Zinc Sulphate Monohydrate (50.1mg/kg)

How we read this label

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

On the labelWe read it asShare on the label
Chicken (80%)Named meat80%
Carrots (5%)Vegetable, fruit or plant5%
Apples (5%)Vegetable, fruit or plant5%
Pea Fibre (1.25%)Vegetable, fruit or plant1.3%
Butternut Squash (1%)Vegetable, fruit or plant1%
Sweet Potato (1%)Vegetable, fruit or plant1%
Minerals (1%)Other1%
Blackberries (0.5%)Vegetable, fruit or plant0.5%
Cranberries (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
Beet PulpVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
Green TeaVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
YuccaOtherNot given
RosemaryVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
ParsleyVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
Dandelion RootOtherNot given

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Nutrition

Protein 42% and carbs about 6%, with the water taken out.

As soldDry weight
Protein39%42%
within the usual 40 to 49% for freeze-dried and air-dried foods
Fat32%34%
Carbohydrate~6%~6.4%
below the usual 7 to 14% for freeze-dried and air-dried foods
Fibre6%6.4%
Ash11%12%
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.

Energy430 kcal/100 gCalculated from the analysis.

Why it scores 75

Starch scored best (17.9 of 20). How it’s made scored lowest (14 of 20).

  1. How much meat?

    31.6 / 45
    • Meat on the label28 / 35

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

    • Protein level3.6 / 10

      Protein is 41.5% of the food with the water taken out. Nothing at 20% or less, full marks at 80%.

  2. How much starch?

    17.9 / 20

    About 6.4% 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 16th of 29 freeze-dried and air-dried foods. 3 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, beet pulp, blackberries, carrot, chicken, chicory root extract, coconut oil, cranberries, dandelion root, green tea extract, hawthorn, kale, 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, 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

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

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

ShopPackPricePer kg
Jollyes120g · £5.70120g£5.70£47.50/kgVisit

Price unchanged since 10 Aug (3 readings).

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DayShopPackPricePer kg
4 Oct 2026Jollyes120g£5.70£47.50/kg
27 Sep 2026Jollyes120g£5.70£47.50/kg
10 Aug 2026Jollyes120g£5.70£47.50/kg

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Cost per day and grams for your dog

Alternatives

2 dry foods score 5 to 13 points higher at the same price or less.

Compare side by side →
Meat
96% this food 80%
Carbs
about 4% this food about 6%
To feed
about the same per 1,000 kcal

+13 pointsCompare

Carbs
about 9% this food about 6%
To feed
11% less per 1,000 kcal

+5 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: Jollyes.

Score method v6.1.0 · ingredient notes v2.4.0

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