Natures Menu Junior Dog Food Chicken & Lamb

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Natures Menu Junior Dog Food Chicken & Lamb

WetCompletePuppyContains grain
64/ 100

Score v6.1.0 · label checked 4 Oct 2026

Good points

  • 68% meat
  • Low starch, about 10% carbs
  • No ingredient deductions

First ingredients: Chicken (min 48%), Broth (28%), Lamb (min 20%), Brown Rice (min 2%), Minerals All ingredients

Label checked
Meat
68%
Protein, dry weight
44%
Carbs, dry weight
~10%
kcal/100 g
104

Ingredients

Listed first: Chicken. 68% of the recipe is declared meat.

  • Meat 68%
  • Grain 2%
  • Other 28%
  • No amount given 2%

Chicken (min 48%), Broth (28%), Lamb (min 20%), Brown Rice (min 2%), Minerals

Meat named animal proteinGrain cereals

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: “Chicken”. It names the animal.

Each ingredient on the label, how we read it, and the share the label gives
On the labelWe read it asShare on the label
Chicken (min 48%)Named meat48%
Broth (28%)Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient28%
Lamb (min 20%)Named meat20%
Brown Rice (min 2%)Grain2%
MineralsOtherNot given

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Nutrition

Protein 44% and carbs about 10%, with the water taken out.

Analysis as sold and with the water taken out
NutrientAs soldDry weight
Protein11%44%
within the usual 38 to 48% for wet foods
Fat8%32%
Carbohydrate~2.5%~10%
within the usual 9 to 21% for wet foods
Fibre1%4%
Ash2.5%10%
Moisture75%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.

Energy104 kcal/100 g

Why it scores 64

Starch scored best (16.7 of 20). How it’s made scored lowest (8 of 20).

  1. How much meat?

    27.8 / 45 points
    • Meat on the label23.8 / 35 points

      68% declared meat, as weighed before cooking; full marks at 100%.

    • Protein level4 / 10 points

      Protein is 44% of the food with the water taken out. Nothing at 20% or less, full marks at 80%.

  2. How much starch?

    16.7 / 20 points

    Estimated carbohydrate: About 10% carbohydrate with the water taken out (our estimate). Full marks with no carbohydrate, none at 60% or more.

  3. How processed?

    8 / 20 points

    How it’s made: Cooked in the tin, tray or pouch: 8 of 20.

  4. 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

Top 29% of wet foods. 33 foods share this score. Each bar counts the ranked wet 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

Nothing flagged in 12 ingredients.

12 ingredients with nothing flagged

Broth (meat stock), chicken, lamb, minerals, rice, 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

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

Prices from each shop
ShopPackPricePer kgLink
Pets at Home1 x 300g · £2.79 up 11% since 10 Aug1 x 300g£2.79£9.30/kgVisit

Since 10 Aug (3 readings): Pets at Home up 11%.

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DayShopPackPricePer kg
4 Oct 2026Pets at Home1 x 300g£2.79£9.30/kg
27 Sep 2026Pets at Home1 x 300g£2.51£8.37/kg
10 Aug 2026Pets at Home1 x 300g£2.51£8.37/kg

Your dog

Cost per day and grams for your dog

Alternatives

3 wet foods score 5 to 9 points higher at the same price or less.

Compare side by side →
Meat
75% this food 68%
Carbs
about 0% this food about 10%
To feed
71% less per 1,000 kcal

+9 pointsCompare

Meat
66% this food 68%
Carbs
about 3% this food about 10%
To feed
39% less per 1,000 kcal

+6 pointsCompare

Carbs
about 5% this food about 10%
To feed
50% 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: Pets at Home.

Score method v6.1.0 · ingredient notes v2.4.0

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