Nourish Healthy Gut Granulated Charcoal Powder

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Healthy Gut Granulated Charcoal Powder
This is sold as a supplement, not as an everyday meal. The 1–100 rating applies to complete meals, so it isn't scored. Ingredient breakdown below.

Our verdict

Is Nourish Healthy Gut Granulated Charcoal Powder a good dog food?

This is a supplement, not a complete diet, so it is not scored on our 1-100 scale. The ingredient breakdown below shows what is in it; a supplement should be fed alongside, not instead of, a complete diet.

Complementary supplement for dogs of all life stages, made from charcoal.

How we score

Why you might choose it

  • Prints ingredient percentages on the label.
  • Prints a percentage for nearly every ingredient, so the recipe is fully auditable.
  • Doesn't list grain ingredients.

Why you might not

  • A supplement, not a complete diet: feed as an extra, not the whole diet.
  • Meat makes up an estimated 0% of the dry matter; carbohydrates dominate.
  • No analytical breakdown is published.

Who is this food for?

Suits

  • Labelled by the manufacturer for all lifestages
  • Grain-free: no grain ingredients listed
  • Doesn't list chicken, beef, turkey, lamb, fish, venison, pork, duck as ingredients

These points are derived from declared ingredients and analysis, not a substitute for veterinary advice. If your dog has a diagnosed condition, food choice is a medical nutrition decision: speak to your vet. Find foods that fit your dog.

Nutrition and feeding

Typical analysis (as fed)

No analysis recorded yet.

Additives & feeding info

Feeding and storage

Storage

Store in a cool dry place.

No additives recorded yet.

Ingredients (1)0 of 1 percentages printed

Estimated composition

  • other 100.0%
#As declaredMatchedLabel readingDeclared %Est. %
1Non- Activated CharcoalCharcoalother · medium-100.0
  1. 1. Non- Activated Charcoal100.0% estimated
    Charcoal · other · medium

Trust and sourceNo recalls recorded in our database · checked 2026-08-22

Brand and contact: Nourish

Trust and provenance

Recall history
No recalls recorded in our database
Label data last checked
2026-08-22

Recall history is presentation-only and never affects the score. Dates are when we recorded the data, not when the manufacturer last changed the recipe.

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Score details and methodologyCalculations, history and evidence

Recipe: how the 1-100 score is calculated

Scored with model v3 on 2026-10-25. Each component is the feature value for this product multiplied by the model's published coefficient.

ComponentInputCoefficientContribution
Base score-30.909+30.91
Average ingredient quality0.59.191+4.60
Other share of dry matter100.0%-0.375-37.47
Low meat (under 10% of dry matter)yes-3.158-3.16
Processing multiplier0.9833.786+33.11
Processing: Dry Extrudedyes-6.713-6.71
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ComponentInputCoefficientContribution
Base score-30.909+30.91
Average ingredient quality0.59.191+4.60
Meat share of dry matter0.0%0.096+0.00
Carb share of dry matter0.0%-0.115+0.00
Oil share of dry matter0.0%-0.092+0.00
Vegetable share of dry matter0.0%-0.005+0.00
Additive share of dry matter0.0%0.163+0.00
Supplement share of dry matter0.0%-0.012+0.00
Other share of dry matter100.0%-0.375-37.47
Unrecognised share of dry matter0.0%-0.027+0.00
Recipe graded poor0.0%-0.065+0.00
Poor-quality meat in recipe0.0%-0.179+0.00
Number of poor ingredients0-0.876+0.00
Largest single poor ingredient0.0%0.060+0.00
Undeclared quantities0.0%-0.106+0.00
Prints ingredient percentagesno0.000+0.00
Complete dietno2.294+0.00
Frozen or chilled freshno0.000+0.00
High meat (30%+ of dry matter)no0.707+0.00
Low meat (under 10% of dry matter)yes-3.158-3.16
High carb and low meatno-1.180+0.00
Meat share × printed percentages0.00.000+0.00
Meat share × fresh0.00.000+0.00
Fresh × high meat0.011.084+0.00
Additive penalty0.000.222+0.00
Processing multiplier0.9833.786+33.11
Processing: Rawno-0.054+0.00
Processing: Fresh Chilledno-2.354+0.00
Processing: Fresh Frozenno-2.354+0.00
Processing: Fresh Refrigeratedno0.000+0.00
Processing: Fresh Shelfno-0.672+0.00
Processing: Dry Freeze Driedno6.629+0.00
Processing: Dry Air Driedno6.331+0.00
Processing: Dry Cold Pressedno-6.713+0.00
Processing: Dry Bakedno-6.713+0.00
Processing: Dry Extrudedyes-6.713-6.71
Processing: Dry Semi Moistno-6.174+0.00
Processing: Dry Mueslino-10.146+0.00
Processing: Wet Pateno-0.672+0.00
Processing: Wet Chunksno-0.672+0.00
Processing-type offset
+0.02
Subtotal
21.3
Final score
21/100

Contributions are rounded to two decimals, so they may not sum exactly to the subtotal. The full coefficient table is published on the methodology page.

This is not a complete diet, so the 1-100 rating does not apply to it. Read the recipe breakdown above as ingredient-quality context only.

Score history across model versions

The score shown above is always computed with the latest published model. Earlier scores are kept for the record and are never edited or deleted; a scoring change ships as a new model version with a public write-up on the methodology page.

ModelScore
v321/100current
v236/100
v134/100
v1.937/100
Nutritional: declared analysis vs reference ranges

Not applicable to complementary food. FEDIAF reference ranges apply to complete diets.

Transparency: what the label discloses

How much the manufacturer discloses, measured against the FEDIAF Code of Good Labelling Practice and Regulation 767/2009. Mandatory items dominate the weighting.

ItemPoints
✓ Ingredient list on the label (mandatory)10/10
✓ Printed percentages on the label (100% of the recipe mass) (voluntary)20/20
✗ Analytical constituents declared (mandatory) - not on file0/15
✗ Additives declared (mandatory) - not on file0/10
✗ Energy value declared (voluntary) - not on file0/5
✓ Complete/complementary designation (mandatory)5/5
✗ Feeding guidance given (mandatory) - not on file0/10
✓ Manufacturer identity and address (mandatory)5/10
✓ Country of manufacture stated (voluntary)10/10
✗ Batch and date labelling (mandatory) - not on file0/5

Capped at 60: mandatory items missing (Analytical constituents declared, Additives declared, Feeding guidance given, Batch and date labelling).

Safety: recall history

Recall and safety-notice history, time-decayed. This dimension is shown alongside the score and never feeds the headline number.

No recalls recorded in our database.

See all current recalls we track.

Evidence: what the brand claims, and what supports it

The claims made on the pack and product page, checked against the declared label. We record claims as stated; "consistent" means our stored label data supports the claim, "contradicted" means it conflicts with it. Functional claims are recorded but never scored.

100/100 · moderate — 1 checkable claim: 1 consistent, 0 contradicted.

Consistent with the label

  • "Free from: Grain, Gluten, Additives, Flavourings" — supported by the declared grain-free data.

14 further claims on file that we cannot check against the label.

Moderate: every checkable claim is consistent with the declared label.

ClaimTypeCheckSubstantiation
Nourish's Healthy Gut Charcoal is one of the highest grades of charcoal available (on page)Contentnot checkableManufacturer assertion
specifically produced from native UK timber (on page)Contentnot checkableManufacturer assertion
from truly sustainable forestry practices (on page)Contentnot checkableManufacturer assertion
of animal feed grade standards (on page)Contentnot checkableManufacturer assertion
ideal for long-term feeding (on page)Functionalnot checkableManufacturer assertion
a great supplement for dogs with a sensitive stomach (on page)Functionalnot checkableManufacturer assertion
helps dogs digest food much more efficiently (on page)Functionalnot checkableManufacturer assertion
can help to drastically reduce excess gas (on page)Functionalnot checkableManufacturer assertion
Non-Activated Charcoal is specifically produced for ingestion (on page)Contentnot checkableManufacturer assertion
has an ultra fine pore size (on page)Contentnot checkableManufacturer assertion
easy to work with and a lot less messy than powdered charcoal (on page)Contentnot checkableManufacturer assertion
no strong smell or taste (on page)Contentnot checkableManufacturer assertion
can be easily fed to fussy eaters (on page)Functionalnot checkableManufacturer assertion
100% Non- Activated Charcoal (on page)Contentnot checkableManufacturer assertion
Free from: Grain, Gluten, Additives, Flavourings (on page)Free-fromconsistentManufacturer assertion

The full scoring method is published. See the methodology for exactly how the headline score and each dimension are calculated.

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