Natures Menu Raw Boost Pork & Lamb Dog Food

Name: Natures Menu Raw Boost Pork & Lamb Dog Food
Brand: Natures Menu

DryCompleteAdultContains grain

WeakTied 750th of 1,171 dry foods

89% of dry foods score under 45.

Score v6.1.0 · label checked 10 Aug 2026

No ingredient deductions

14% meat
Added plant protein, starch or fibre
Includes hydrolysed protein

First ingredients: Pea starch, dehydrated pork proteins, dehydrated potato, pork (10%), dehydrated peas… All ingredients

Ingredients match the maker’s own page

Meat: 14%
Protein, dry weight: 28%
Carbs, dry weight: ~44%
kcal/100 g: 353

Ingredients

Listed first: Pea starch. 14% of the recipe is declared meat.

Pea starch, dehydrated pork proteins, dehydrated potato, pork (10%), dehydrated peas, lamb (4%), lard, linseed, maize oil, hydrolysed pea protein, dried chicory root concentrate (source of inulin), minerals, lignocellulose, spirulina (Arthrospira platensis), dried pineapple stem concentrate

Meat named animal proteinGrain cereals

Additives

Vitamin A, vitamin D3, vitamin E, biotin, copper(II) sulphate pentahydrate, iron(II) sulphate monohydrate, potassium iodide, sodium selenite, zinc sulphate monohydrate, manganous sulphate monohydrate

How we read this label

First ingredient: “Pea starch”. It isn’t a named meat or fish.

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
Pea starch	Vegetable, fruit or plant	Not given
dehydrated pork proteins	Named meat	Not given
dehydrated potato	Vegetable, fruit or plant	Not given
pork (10%)	Named meat	10%
dehydrated peas	Vegetable, fruit or plant	Not given
lamb (4%)	Named meat	4%
lard	Other	Not given
linseed	Vegetable, fruit or plant	Not given
maize oil	Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient	Not given
hydrolysed pea protein	Vegetable, fruit or plant	Not given
dried chicory root concentrate (source of inulin)	Vegetable, fruit or plant	Not given
minerals	Other	Not given
lignocellulose	Other	Not given
spirulina (Arthrospira platensis)	Vegetable, fruit or plant	Not given
dried pineapple stem concentrate	Vegetable, fruit or plant	Not given

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Nutrition

Protein 28% and carbs about 44%, with the water taken out.

Make-upwater is 10% (assumed), left out

Analysis as sold and with the water taken out
Nutrient	As sold	Dry weight
Protein	25.5%	28%
within the usual 26 to 32% for dry foods
Fat	14.5%	16%
Carbohydrate	~40%	~44%
within the usual 39 to 50% for dry foods
Fibre	3%	3.3%
Ash	7%	7.8%
Moisturenot on label, 10% assumed	10%	taken out

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

Energy353 kcal/100 gCalculated from the analysis.

Why it scores 25

The kind of meat scored best (9.5 of 15). Meat scored lowest (6.3 of 45).

How much meat?
6.3 / 45 points
- Meat on the label4.9 / 35 points
  14% declared meat, as weighed before cooking; full marks at 100%.
- Protein level1.4 / 10 points
  Protein is 28.3% of the food with the water taken out. Nothing at 20% or less, full marks at 80%.
How much starch?
5.2 / 20 points
Estimated carbohydrate: About 44.4% carbohydrate with the water taken out (our estimate). Full marks with no carbohydrate, none at 60% or more.
How processed?
4 / 20 points
How it’s made: Extruded kibble: 6 of 20. Minus 2 for added plant protein, starch or fibre and hydrolysed protein.
What kind of meat?
9.5 / 15 points
- How the meat is listed9.5 / 12 points
  The label lists the meat as meal and fresh, which earns 79% 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 dry foods

Tied 750th of 1,171 dry foods. 47 foods share this score. Each bar counts the ranked dry 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.

How we rate foods →

Less starch in the bowl

Half and half by calories with Happy Dog Pure Goat Dog Food (Sardinia) (scores 83): carbs fall from 44% to 28% by dry weight, and protein is about 41%.

Worked out from both labels, for half the day’s calories from each food. The feeding guides on the packs still set the amounts.

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Ingredient notes

1 noted: hydrolysed proteins. 22 flagged nothing.

1 noted
22 nothing flagged
1 not in our ingredient database yet

Hydrolysed proteinsCounted in “How processed?”
Feed material (protein source)
A protein broken down by processing, often used in sensitive-stomach foods. It costs a point under “How processed?” rather than as a deduction.
Sources
- Reg (EU) No 68/2013 - EU Catalogue of Feed Materials (EUR-Lex)
- FEDIAF Nutritional Guidelines for Complete and Complementary Pet Food for Cats and Dogs (2025)

22 ingredients with nothing flagged

Animal fats, biotin (vitamin H/B7), chicory root extract, lamb, lignocellulose, linseed (flaxseed), minerals, oils and fats, peas, pork, potato, spirulina, starch, tocopherols (vitamin E)

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