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Nutro Limited Ingredient Adult review

A solid, honest dry food. 27% declared meat content is respectable. Feeding it costs about 93p a day for a typical adult dog - the breakdown below shows exactly what that buys.

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ODF Score 67/100 Good
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Top 62%scores higher than 38% of rated foodsacross all 3075 foods we've scored
Goodscore bandthe dot marks where it sits among every food we've rated
£0.93 approx.per day for a 10 kg dogcheaper than 19% of dry foods
27%declared meat content
United Statesbrand origin
362kcal per 100 g

Where the points went

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

Ingredient quality
Weighted ingredient quality 56/100 across 10 ingredients (declared percentages used for 1, position estimates for the rest). Legumes carry 40% of the recipe. The FDA found no causal link between legume-rich diets and canine heart disease (DCM), though some cardiologists advise caution - noted for information, not scored.
22.3 / 40
Label clarity
Every ingredient individually named (+5); percentages cover 27% of the recipe (+1.6); meat sources named (+2); recipe reads as a fixed formula (+2).
10.6 / 15
Additives
Declared additives below our neutral line, weakest being Flavour from Plant Origin (-0.8).
9.3 / 10
Red flags
No red-flag ingredients.
0 / 0
Meat content
Meat content ~64.8% fresh-equivalent (added up from every named meat on the label; dried meats counted at their fresh weight).
15 / 15
Nutritional balance
Estimated carbohydrate 48% dry matter (high); fat 12.0% DM in the healthy band; fibre 2.0% DM (+2); ash 9.8% DM - sensible mineral load (+0.8).
3.9 / 10
Processing
Assumed extruded kibble (standard high-heat process).
6 / 10
ODF Score
Algorithm v1.4.1 · scored August 19, 2026 · full methodology public
67 / 100

Our analysis

Breaking the 67 down: the biggest single loss is ingredient quality, where it takes 22.3 of a possible 40. Its strongest showing is declared meat content at 15 of 15.

The label declares 27% meat, which is a real number, which already puts it ahead of the many that print none, and the ingredient list is only partly specific.

At about 93p 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 broadly does.

Ingredients

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

Good qualityAcceptable / watch the amountRed flagGeneric / neutralOutlined = first five on the label
Additives (as declared on the label)
Vitamin a 13600 IU, Vitamin D3 1500 IU, Cupric Sulphate , Pentahydrate 4.5 mg, Manganous Sulphate, Monohydrate 22.5 mg, Potassium Iodide 1.10 mg, Sodium Selenite 0.35 mg, Zinc Sulphate, Monohydrate 64 mg.

Feeding & cost

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

Pack sizeRRPPer kg
9.5 kg£59.99£6.31

How heavy is your dog?

A typical 10 kg adult dog needs about 148 g a day = £0.93 / day, £28.27 / 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, 362 kcal/100g, to get the grams above - a denser food needs fewer grams.
  3. Cost: multiply the grams by this food's price, £6.31 / 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

28.2 % DM
Directory average: 28.2

Fat

12 % DM
Directory average: 14.8

Est. carbs

48.2 % DM
Directory average: 45.2

Fibre

2 % DM
Directory average: 3.6

Ash

9.8 % DM
Directory average: 7.9

Energy

362 kcal/100g
Directory average: 365.3

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

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