Natures Menu Raw Boost with Trout Freeze Dried Raw Adult Dog Food

4 prices from Animal Station Linwood, Pets at Home and Northumbria Pets

Natures Menu Raw Boost with Trout Freeze Dried Raw Adult Dog Food

DryCompleteAdultContains grain
26/ 100
WeakTied 699th of 1,171 dry foods

89% of dry foods score under 45.

Score v6.1.0 · label checked 4 Oct 2026

Good points

  • No ingredient deductions
  • Fresh meat, named by animal

Worth knowing

  • 13% meat
  • Added plant protein, starch or fibre
  • Includes hydrolysed protein

First ingredients: Pea starch, trout* 13%, dehydrated peas*, dehydrated potato, dehydrated trout proteins… All ingredients

Label checked
Meat
13%
Protein, dry weight
28%
Carbs, dry weight
~44%
kcal/100 g
353

Ingredients

Listed first: Pea starch. 13% of the recipe is declared meat.

  • Meat 13%
  • Other 0.9%
  • No amount given 86.1%

Pea starch, trout* 13%, dehydrated peas*, dehydrated potato, dehydrated trout proteins, pea protein, lard, white fish*, linseed*, hydrolysed pea protein, maize oil, minerals, salmon*, dried chicory root concentrate (source of inulin)* 0.8%, lignocellulose, spirulina (Arthrospira platensis)* 0.1%, dried pineapple stem concentrate*. *Natural ingredients

Meat named animal proteinGrain cereals

Additives

Vitamin A 25650 IU; vitamin D3 1140 IU; vitamin E 337 mg; biotin 1 mg; copper(II) sulphate pentahydrate 31 mg; iron(II) sulphate monohydrate 247 mg; potassium iodide 1.8 mg; sodium selenite 0.2 mg; zinc sulphate monohydrate 365 mg; manganous sulphate monohydrate 117 mg

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 labelWe read it asShare on the label
Pea starchVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
trout* 13%Named meat13%
dehydrated peas*Vegetable, fruit or plantNot given
dehydrated potatoVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
dehydrated trout proteinsNamed meatNot given
pea proteinVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
lardOtherNot given
white fish*Named meatNot given
linseed*Vegetable, fruit or plantNot given
hydrolysed pea proteinVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
maize oilFat, stock, extract or other processed ingredientNot given
mineralsOtherNot given
salmon*Named meatNot given
dried chicory root concentrate (source of inulin)* 0.8%Vegetable, fruit or plant0.8%
lignocelluloseOtherNot given
spirulina (Arthrospira platensis)* 0.1%Vegetable, fruit or plant0.1%
dried pineapple stem concentrate*Vegetable, fruit or plantNot given

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Nutrition

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

Analysis as sold and with the water taken out
NutrientAs soldDry weight
Protein25.5%28%
within the usual 26 to 32% for dry foods
Fat14.5%16%
Carbohydrate~40%~44%
within the usual 39 to 50% for dry foods
Fibre3%3.3%
Ash7%7.8%
Moisturenot on label, 10% assumed10%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 26

The kind of meat scored best (10.8 of 15). Meat scored lowest (6 of 45).

  1. How much meat?

    6 / 45 points
    • Meat on the label4.6 / 35 points

      13% 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%.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. What kind of meat?

    10.8 / 15 points
    • How the meat is listed10.8 / 12 points

      The label lists the meat as fresh and meal, which earns 90% 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 dry foods

Tied 699th of 1,171 dry foods. 51 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.

Best wet foods →

Ingredient notes

1 noted: hydrolysed proteins. 23 flagged nothing.

  • 1 noted
  • 23 nothing flagged
  • 1 not in our ingredient database yet
23 ingredients with nothing flagged

Animal fats, biotin (vitamin H/B7), chicory root extract, fish, lignocellulose, linseed (flaxseed), minerals, oils and fats, peas, potato, salmon, spirulina, starch, tocopherols (vitamin E), vegetable protein extracts

Allowed up to a legal maximum, none declared above it: 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
1 not in our ingredient database yet

Dried pineapple stem concentrate

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

Lowest £9.00/kg at Animal Station Linwood, 10% below the dearest. Checked 4 Oct 2026.

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

Prices from each shop
ShopPackPricePer kgLink
Animal Station Linwood3kg · £27.003kg£27.00£9.00/kgCheapest in stockVisit
Pets at Home1.5kg · £14.99 up 18% since 10 Aug1.5kg£14.99£9.99/kgVisit
Animal Station Linwood1.5kg · £15.001.5kg£15.00£10.00/kgVisit
Northumbria Pets1.5kg · £14.99Out of stock1.5kg£14.99£9.99/kgVisit

Since 10 Aug (3 readings): Pets at Home up 18%; 2 other shops unchanged.

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Every reading we have, newest first
DayShopPackPricePer kg
4 Oct 2026Animal Station Linwood1.5kg£15.00£10.00/kg
4 Oct 2026Animal Station Linwood3kg£27.00£9.00/kg
4 Oct 2026Northumbria Pets1.5kg£14.99 (out of stock)£9.99/kg
4 Oct 2026Pets at Home1.5kg£14.99£9.99/kg
28 Sep 2026Animal Station Linwood1.5kg£15.00£10.00/kg
28 Sep 2026Animal Station Linwood3kg£27.00£9.00/kg
28 Sep 2026Northumbria Pets1.5kg£14.99 (out of stock)£9.99/kg
27 Sep 2026Pets at Home1.5kg£13.49£8.99/kg
10 Aug 2026Pets at Home1.5kg£12.74£8.49/kg

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Cost per day and grams for your dog

Alternatives

4 dry foods score 33 to 37 points higher at the same price or less.

Compare side by side →
Meat
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Carbs
about 22% this food about 44%
To feed
about the same per 1,000 kcal

+37 pointsCompare

Meat
78% this food 13%
Carbs
about 8% this food about 44%
To feed
51% less per 1,000 kcal

+34 pointsCompare

Meat
79.5% this food 13%
Carbs
about 33% this food about 44%
To feed
21% less per 1,000 kcal

+33 pointsCompare

Meat
76% this food 13%
Carbs
about 26% this food about 44%
To feed
33% less per 1,000 kcal

+33 pointsCompare

Carbs are a share of the dry food, with the water taken out.

Sources

Read from 3 shops, saved 4 Oct 2026.

Pages we read, saved 4 Oct 2026: Pets at Home, Northumbria Pets, Animal Station Linwood.

Score method v6.1.0 · ingredient notes v2.4.0

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