Is Nutra Nuggets Global Dry Dog Food Good?
Nutra Nuggets Global Dry Dog Food is a pet food line with a 2.5 stars rating — accounts for 8% of all the pet food we review.
They seem to have a certain level of carbs, and contain some ingredients we concern. We do not recommend this pet food.
What We like
- None
What We Concern
- More than 37% Carbs
- Include Plant Protein in Top 5 ingredients
- Majority of Ingredients lead to our Concern
- Seems No Organic Minerals
- Seems No Probiotics to Aid Digestion
- Contain Potential Allergens like Corn, Soy, Gluten, and Dairy products
- Contain Ingredients that might be Uncertain
「Chief of Food」Fat Hill
Recipes Rating
Recipes could have different ingredients in the same product line. We rate each recipe and list them from higest to lowest ratings.
Recipe and 1st Ingredient
Rating
Grain Free
Nutra-Nuggets Global Performance
1️⃣Chicken Meal 🍚Carbs：37%Nutra-Nuggets Global Professional
1️⃣Chicken Meal 🍚Carbs：32%Nutra-Nuggets Global Puppy
1️⃣Chicken Meal 🍚Carbs：31%Nutra-Nuggets Global Lamb Meal & Rice
1️⃣Lamb Meal 🍚Carbs：43%Nutra-Nuggets Global Large Breed Puppy
1️⃣Chicken Meal 🍚Carbs：43%Nutra-Nuggets Global Large Breed Adult
1️⃣Chicken Meal 🍚Carbs：50%Nutra-Nuggets Global Maintenance
1️⃣Chicken Meal 🍚Carbs：51%Nutra-Nuggets Global Lite/Senior
1️⃣Brewers Rice 🍚Carbs：59%Tips
Recipes have different ratings. This means they might be designed a bit differently.
Recipe to review
To rate Nutra Nuggets Global Dry Dog Food, we will take one representative recipe to evaluate the nutrition, ingredients and meat content of this product line.
We have chosen Nutra-Nuggets Global Lamb Meal & Rice.
Nutrition Label
Pet food show guaranteed analysis on their labels. It includes moisture and does not reflect the level of carbs — which we prefer lower for dogs and as low as possible for cats.
25%
15%
3%
?%
Calculate the dry value (no moisture) on a dry matter basis will help us to estimate the carbs level and other nutrition without water — so we can get a better idea about the ratio.
(We think the ideal nutrition profile would be Protein > Fat > Carbs)
| Nutrition | Our Ideal | Dry Value | Like? |
| Protein | 30% or more | 28% | |
| Fat | 15% or more | 17% | |
| Carbs | Less than 28% | 43% | |
| Fiber | Less than 5% | 3.3% |
Ingredients Overview
15 ingredients are listed on the label. We research their quality to pet and use our best judgement to group them in the proportion of Prefer, Concerned, and Notice ingredients in the bar chart.
Lamb Meal
Animal ProteinBrewers Rice
CarbsBrown Rice
CarbsMaize Gluten Meal
Plant Protein ConcentrateOat Flakes
CarbsChicken Fat
FatDried Plain Beet Pulp
CarbsEgg Derivatives
Animal ProteinFish Meal
Animal ProteinLinseed
FatChicken Digest
Animal ProteinPotassium Chloride
SupplementSalt
OthersGlucosamine Hydrochloride
SupplementChondroitin Sulphate
SupplementTips
We find 4 Concerned and 5 Notice ingredients from Nutra-Nuggets Global Lamb Meal & Rice. Check from the above list to view the details.Concerned
- Oat Flakes
- Dried Plain Beet Pulp
- Chicken Digest
- Salt
Notice
- Brewers Rice
- Brown Rice
- Maize Gluten Meal
- Egg Derivatives
- Fish Meal
Estimated Meat Content
Some pet food uses high plant protein ingredients to boost up the overall protein level — to make it looks like it includes a lot of meat, which is more appealing for customers.
Therefore, protein level itself cannot tell the quality and how much animal ingredients (more digestible than plants) is in the pet food.
1 / 7 (14%)
in top 7 ingredients28%
in dry matterBy looking at the plant protein in top ingredients and compare with the total protein level, we will try to estimate how much animal ingredients is used in the pet food as Meat Content.
Meat Content
Based on my "godly" guess, the meat content might be Low to medium !
It looks like it contains some amount of meat. Your furbabies would prefer something with more meat!
Nutra Nuggets Global Dry Dog Food Product Line Review
To make a conclusion about the whole product line, we will consider all recipes and their average nutrition ratio.
Recipes Average Compares to Ideal Level
In the total of 8 recipes, the group has an average of 28% protein, 17% fat and 43% carbohydrate.
（Protein and Fat: Prefer Higher丨Carbs: Prefer Lower）
- Protein is -2 (%) less than ideal
- Fat is 2 (%) higher than ideal
- Carbs is 15 (%) higher than ideal
What does it mean?
Overall,Nutra Nuggets Global Dry Dog Food has an carbs level higher than our preferred level.
Conclusion
Throughout the review, we have 3 major opinons about this pet food line:
- Nutrition ratio, mainly the level of carbs raises our attention
- Ingredients might be worth to take a second look
- Low to medium level of meat content
Based on these, we can conclude Nutra Nuggets Global Dry Dog Food is a pet food line with a 2.5 star rating.
Do we recommend Nutra Nuggets Global Dry Dog Food ?
There are several things make us concerned, so we do not recommend it. If there is a very strong reason for you to choose it, try to mix with other pet food with higher meat to enrich the diet.
The review is entirely our own view and opinon. It is for informational reference only and not a purchase advice.
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