Nulo Medalseries Puppy Chicken & Sweet Potato Recipe Review

Nulo Dry Dog Food Review


Quick Analysis

Ingredients:

Nutrition:

Potential Allergens: seafood

Est. Calories: 376 cal/100g

Price: $$$

Overall, Nulo Medalseries Puppy Chicken & Sweet Potato Recipe is an above average dog food, earning 7 out of a possible 10 paws based on its nutritional analysis and ingredient list.


Ingredient Analysis

When evaluating a dog food, the first five ingredients can tell you a lot about the quality of a product as they make up the bulk of the product. Ideally, you're looking for quality protein sources with a minimum of cheap starches, fillers or by-products. Continuing down the ingredient list, look for ingredients that resemble real food with a minimal number of unpronounceable chemicals - the same as you would for human food.

Nulo Medalseries Puppy Chicken & Sweet Potato Recipe includes the following:

Quality Ingredients

  • deboned chicken
  • chicken meal
  • turkey meal
  • deboned turkey

Questionable Ingredients

None

Potential Allergens

  • salmon oil

Note - a bolded ingredient in the above tables indicates it is one of the first five ingredients listed by the product manufacturer.

In this case, Nulo Medalseries Puppy Chicken & Sweet Potato Recipe's most plentiful ingredient listed is deboned chicken, which is considered a quality protein source. It also contains chicken meal and turkey meal as additional quality protein sources.

Additionally, it's worth noting that this product does not list either by-products nor bulk-adding fillers within its top ingredients. By-products are considered inferior, lesser quality ingredients. Common fillers typically used to add bulk to the product are not required in your dog's diet. Together, their combined absence may be indicative of a higher quality product.

Allergen alert: This product contains salmon oil which may be problematic for dogs who suffer from seafood food allergies.



Nutritional Analysis*

Compared to the other 1160 dog foods in our database, Nulo Medalseries Puppy Chicken & Sweet Potato Recipe has:

  • an average amount of protein
  • an average amount of carbohydrates
  • an average amount of fat
  • an average amount of fiber
In general, dogs have been shown to do better with a higher protein, medium fat, lower carb diet with sufficient moisture. However, specialty diets as recommended by your veterinarian may prioritize a different nutritional breakdown.

Calorie Breakdown

Using the calculations provided by the AAFCO, Nulo Medalseries Puppy Chicken & Sweet Potato Recipe has approximately 376 calories per 100g (106 calories/ounce), which is a few more calories compared to the average of the other dry dog foods in the DogFoodDB.


All the product information on this page is based on data collected from the manufacturer's product website as retrieved on June 4, 2017.


Ingredients

Ingredients as published by the dog food manufacturer:

Deboned Chicken, Chicken Meal, Turkey Meal, Whole Peas, Sweet Potato, Chicken Fat (preserved with Mixed Tocopherols & Citric Acid), Lentils, Pea Fiber, Deboned Turkey, Natural Chicken Flavor, Yeast Culture, Salmon Oil (Source of DHA), Dried Chicory Root, Potassium Chloride, Dried Carrots, Dried Tomatoes, Dried Blueberries, Dried Apples, Calcium Carbonate, Salt, Sweet Fennel, Dandelion, Chamomile, Zinc Proteinate, Vitamin E Supplement, L-Ascorbyl-2-Polyphosphate (source of Vitamin C), Iron Proteinate, Niacin, Copper Proteinate, Choline Chloride, Thiamine Mononitrate (source of Vitamin B1), Calcium Pantothenate, Vitamin A Supplement, Manganous Oxide, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride (source of Vitamin B6), Sodium Selenite, Riboflavin, Vitamin D3 Supplement, Biotin, Dried Bacillus coagulans Fermentation Product, Vitamin B12 Supplement, Calcium Iodate, Folic Acid, Rosemary Extract


Guaranteed Analysis

Nutritional information as published by the dog food manufacturer.*

Protein: (min)
32.0%
Fat: (min)
17.0%
Fiber: (max)
5.0%
Carbs: (est)
34.1%
Ash: (est)
1.9%
Moisture: (max)
10.0%

Dry Matter Analysis

The manufacturer's published guaranteed analysis values normalized for moisture content.

Protein: (min)
36%
Fat: (min)
19%
Fiber: (max)
6%
Carbs: (est)
38%
Ash: (est)
2%
Calories: (est)
376/100g

*Note that some nutritional percentages reported are only estimated values, and are indicated as such as (est). Each dog food manufacturer is required by law to publish a Guaranteed Analysis, which defines each product's maximum values of fiber, moisture and ash in addition to the minimum values of protein and fat contained within. Exact nutritional percentages are not available and hence all calculated values (including carbohydrate percentages and calorie amounts) are determined using these minimum and maximum published values and therefore may differ from actual values.


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