Natures Menu Ready to Mix Raw Fruit & Vegetables Nuggets

Everybody who starts feeding raw chops vegetables for about a fortnight. Then the food processor goes back in the cupboard, the bowl quietly becomes meat and nothing else, and the half swede in the fridge drawer becomes a monument to good intentions. This bag is the answer to that particular failure.

It is a frozen nugget of blended fruit and vegetables, portioned so you can count out what goes in the bowl instead of preparing it. Carrot and swede lead the recipe at 30% each, then peas at 10%, sweet potato and butternut squash at 6% each, apple and blueberries at 4% each and spinach at 1%, with pea fibre and seaweed making up the rest. The declared analysis reads crude protein 2%, crude fat 1%, crude ash 1%, crude fibre 6% and moisture 79% — which is the profile of a vegetable, and worth reading before you decide what job it is doing in the bowl.

• 1kg pack, approximately 58 nuggets
• Carrot 30% and swede 30% lead the recipe
• Peas 10%, sweet potato 6%, butternut squash 6%, apple 4%, blueberries 4%, spinach 1%
• Crude protein 2%, fat 1%, ash 1%, fibre 6%, moisture 79%
• Complementary, made to mix with Nature's Menu Free Flow minces and Blocks

This is not a meal. At 2% protein it is the vegetable half of a bowl and nothing more, and a dog fed only on these would be fed on almost nothing. Nature's Menu give no quantity to mix in — no proportion, no grams, no per-size guidance reached us — so how much goes in is between you and whoever helps you plan your dog's diet. Nor did any defrosting instruction, storage temperature or use-by window come with it, so follow whatever is printed on the bag you receive.

Who it's for: raw feeders already using Nature's Menu Free Flow minces or Blocks who want the plant side of the bowl handled, and anyone who has decided their dog should be getting vegetables but has stopped actually making them.