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Natures Menu Raw Boost review

A middling freeze-dried food - fine, with clear compromises. Just 7.5% declared meat content, and the label keeps too much vague. Feeding it costs about £1.31 a day for a typical adult dog - the breakdown below shows exactly what that buys.

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ODF Score 51/100 Average
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Top 75%scores higher than 25% of rated foodsacross all 3075 foods we've scored
Averagescore bandthe dot marks where it sits among every food we've rated
£1.31 approx.per day for a 10 kg dogcheaper than 95% of freeze-dried foods
7.5%declared meat content
United Kingdombrand origin

Where the points went

The full breakdown, exactly as the algorithm scored it. How our rating works

Ingredient quality
Weighted ingredient quality 62/100 across 19 ingredients (declared percentages used for 4, position estimates for the rest).
24.8 / 40
Label clarity
Vague category terms on the label (Animal Fat, Hydrolysed Animal Proteins) - naming points withheld; percentages cover 8% of the recipe (+0.5); meat sources named (+2); variable-composition wording - fixed-formula points withheld.
2.5 / 15
Additives
No artificial colours, flavours, controversial preservatives or added sugars found.
10 / 10
Red flags
Animal Fat at position 9 (-6).
-6 / 0
Meat content
Declared meat content 7.5%.
4.5 / 15
Nutritional balance
Estimated carbohydrate 43% dry matter (moderate); fat 17.4% DM in the healthy band; moisture not declared - 8% assumed for the dry-matter maths; fibre 3.3% DM (+2); ash 7.6% DM - sensible mineral load (+2); functional extras: omega-3 source (+1).
6.8 / 10
Processing
Freeze-dried - gentle preservation, though freeze-drying alone does not kill bacteria, so handle as raw.
8 / 10
ODF Score
Algorithm v1.4.1 · scored August 19, 2026 · full methodology public
51 / 100

Our analysis

Breaking the 51 down: the biggest single loss is ingredient quality, where it takes 24.8 of a possible 40. Its strongest showing is additives at 10 of 10. On top of that, 6 points are deducted outright for red-flag ingredients - a penalty applied before anything else is counted, which is why the total lands where it does.

The label declares 7.5% meat, which is a low figure, and a declared low figure is still more honest than silence, and the ingredient list leans on vague groupings instead of naming what is actually in the bag.

At about £1.31 a day to feed a 10kg dog, the question is not whether it is cheap but whether the label justifies the price - and on our scoring, it does not.

Ingredients

Straight from the label, grouped by role - every ingredient is coloured by our published classification and links to its full page.

Additives (as declared on the label)
Vitamin a 25650 IU, Vitamin D3 1140 IU, Vitamin E 337mg, Biotin 1mg, Copper II Sulphate Pentahydrate 31mg, Iron II Sulphate Monohydrate 247mg, Potassium Iodide 1.8mg, Sodium Selenite 0.2mg, Zinc Sulphate Monohydrate 365mg, Manganous Sulphate Monohydrate 117mg.

Feeding & cost

What a bag actually costs to feed - worked out per dog, not per pack.

Pack sizeRRPPer kg
3 kg£26.99£9.00

How heavy is your dog?

A typical 10 kg adult dog needs about 146 g a day = £1.31 / day, £39.82 / month.

How we work this out
  1. Energy: an adult dog at rest needs about 95 × weight0.75 kcal a day (the FEDIAF maintenance formula - a 10 kg dog works out near 534 kcal).
  2. Portion: divide that by this food's energy density, 367 kcal/100g, to get the grams above - a denser food needs fewer grams.
  3. Cost: multiply the grams by this food's price, £9.00 / kg, for the daily cost, then by 30.4 days for the month.

Estimates scale to your dog's weight and the food's calorie density - a denser food needs fewer grams. A rough guide; always follow the pack. Try the full feeding calculator

Nutrition

Declared analysis converted to a dry-matter basis, so wet and dry foods compare fairly.

Protein

28.3 % DM
Directory average: 43.3

Fat

17.4 % DM
Directory average: 34.6

Est. carbs

43.5 % DM
Directory average: 10.3

Fibre

3.3 % DM
Directory average: 3.7

Ash

7.6 % DM
Directory average: 8.3

Moisture isn't declared on this label - dry-matter figures assume 8% (typical for a dry food) and are marked estimated.

Carbohydrates are estimated: 100% minus protein, fat, fibre, ash and moisture.

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