3.5
Customers say
Customers appreciate the pet food’s nutritional content, describing it as healthy and well-balanced. They find it easy to prepare. However, some customers have issues with hydration and powder content. There are mixed opinions on the smell, value for money, and quality of the dog food.
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Nature’s Diet Difference
Trusted leaders in holistic, natural pet products including our original high protein pet bone broth, Simply Raw meals and more.
Nature’s Diet are the go to source for natural, holistic pet products. Leaders in:
Simply Raw Dog FoodNatural Dog and Cat FoodHigh Protein Dog & Cat FoodLow Carb Dog & Cat FoodHigh Protein Bone BrothNorwegian Salmon OilWhole Cream Goat MilkHolistic Supplements For Pets
Holistic Solutions
Package Dimensions : 12.28 x 12.28 x 3.78 inches; 3 Pounds
Date First Available : September 5, 2020
Manufacturer : Nature’s Diet
ASIN : B08HJSMPWC
Country of Origin : USA
Raw Food Made Easy : Simply Raw combines the safety, easy prep and shelf stable convenience of kibble and canned food with the unsurpassed nutrition offered in real, fresh raw food. Just add water to make this 3 lb bag into over 18 lbs of raw whole food, ready to serve in minutes.
Ingredients With Purpose : Simply Raw is made with only the freshest human grade ingredients. Every ingredient is chosen with care to support holistic health and provide functional benefits for lasting wellness : Freeze-dried raw beef muscle, organ meat, chicken bone broth, whole egg, vegetables, fruit, nuts, seeds, OMEGA fatty acids, probiotics & prebiotics. Raw, whole food ingredients you can see.
All Natural Nutrition : At Nature’s Diet, we believe in honest, transparent labels. We are proud of the wholesome, clean ingredients we use to make Simply Raw – unlike some other brands, we never put anything into our dog food that isn’t listed on the label. No fillers, no grains, no GMOs, no unnatural preservatives, no soy, no added flavorings or dyes. Just honest, raw, whole food nutrition. Key Product Features
USA Sourced, Sustainable, Thoughtful : Made lovingly in small batches in the USA with regionally sourced ingredients & humanely raised meat. Real food for healthy dogs and a healthier planet.
Safe Raw : Freeze-Drying is a natural food preservation process which removes moisture while maintaining the nutritional integrity of food. Freeze-Dried Raw is always free of pathogens, making it the safest way to feed a raw diet. Shelf stable, safe to handle & easy to store.
DMT87 –
A Game-Changer: Nutritious, Convenient, and Dogs Love It—Just Follow the Instructions!
After years of making my own dog food—a labor of love—I finally found Nature’s Diet Simply Raw®, and it’s been a game-changer! With a hectic schedule and a houseful of both personal and foster dogs, I needed something nutritious and easy. This food has delivered on all fronts, and my dogs love it!Highlights:Balanced Nutrition: This mix has everything I would use myself—muscle and organ meats, bone broth, whole eggs, superfoods, and fish oil for Omega 3, 6, and 9, plus probiotics and prebiotics. It’s a powerhouse for their health.Convenience Without Compromise: Preparing homemade raw food weekly was becoming exhausting. Nature’s Diet gives me peace of mind, knowing they’re still getting a healthy meal, even with my busy schedule.Importance of Reading the Instructions: Following the instructions makes all the difference! Shaking the bag to evenly distribute the mix of chunkier and ground components is key, as is using the right measurements for proper hydration. Doing this keeps the food texture just right, and it rehydrates beautifully.Texture & Palatability: When you follow the instructions, the texture is perfect, and my dogs are thrilled with every bite. They’re healthier, happier, and never leave a single morsel behind.To other pet owners: if you’re considering this brand, don’t hesitate! Just take a moment to read and follow the directions, and you’ll see what a difference it makes.
PD –
No Quality Control or Customer Service
We switched to Nature’s Diet Simply Raw Freeze-Dried Raw Whole Food Meal (Beef) from IAMS dry dog food due to our dog’s skin/hair problems, digestive issues, and gas. We have an 85lb hound. Here’s what I’ve learned after 13 bags of this stuff over the last 4+ months.The Good:After a month, my dog’s skin/hair problems, digestive issues, and gas were all resolved.We previously fed her 2 cups of IAMS dry dog food per meal (2x per day). Now she only eats 1 to 1.25 cups of Nature’s Diet meal.Dog drinks less than half of the water she used to.The Bad:You have to mix this food with water, in a 1:1 ratio, and then let it sit for 15mins to 1hour.Once the food is mixed with water we normally let it sit for 15 mins and it quickly congeals into a thick moist paste with hydrated chucks of meat and vegetables. This is what I consider to be the normal or “good” consistency.Some bags however don’t congeal at all no matter how long you let it sit. This means you feed your dog something like a brown soup with hard chunks of meat and vegetables in it. Not good. I’m guessing these bags lack whatever binding agent they use. After having this problem twice, I decided to open another bag of Nature’s Diet and see if it had the same “brown soup” consistency but it did not. The bag appeared to congeal or thicken as expected. Based on that, I mixed the good bag and the bad bag together and had a dog food that was somewhere between good and bad consistency.Then it happened again. One good bag, one bad bag. I mixed the two and worked with what we had.Then I had six “bad” bags of Nature’s Diet. Every bag, whether of good or bad quality, had the same label which indicated “1722292 Best Buy 10/2024.”Different Purchasing Options:Originally I purchased this product from Amazon and then learned I could get it a few dollars cheaper directly from the Nature’s Diet website. Because of the issues identified here, I’ve switched back and forth between Amazon and direct from Nature’s Diet and the lack of consistency exits no matter where you purchase it from.Lack of Customer Service:At this price point, I was done conducting my own dog food science experiments. I sent the company and email describing these issues and asked for a resolution. After more than two weeks, I never received a response.I reviewed Nature’s Diet return/refund policy and it stated you can only return unopened food. That’s problematic for customers when you don’t know what you’re going to get before you open the bag.With their lack of response to my email, I contacted them using their “Contact Us” feature on their website. After more than two weeks using “Contact Us”, I never received a response.In summary, this is not what I consider quality dog food. Based on my experience, there appears to be no consistency from one bag to the next. It appears Nature’s Diet has no quality control. It also appears they have no customer service.Based on these experiences, I plan to transition to a competitors product.
FitOne –
Very inconsistent
I’ve been feeding this product to my dogs for two years. They manufacturers are extremely inconsistent in the way they make this dog food. They claim on the package that you can get up to 18 pounds of dog food from a single package and that is just not true. Unless of course you like feeding your dog soup. Make the product the same every single time and yet sometimes it comes out hard as a rock another times it turns out like soup. I shake the bags I turn them upside down. I shake them and shake them and shake them to try to make the product is consistent as possible, but every single bag is different .Also, for some reason when I order this product it takes longer to arrive than it should. Amazon and the manufacturer are very slow in shipping. I’m assuming this company is not very well run and I’m looking for alternatives because if they can’t make the Quality consistent they can’t ship it on time. I’m assuming they don’t know what they’re doing.
My dog will not eat this food –
I had high hopes for this dog food. It’s raw dehydrated kibble for dogs
This dog food really has a balanced menu ingredients seem to be wonderful, but my dog did not like something in there. It might’ve been the spices cause she’s not really a spicy kind of dog maybe in her attitude that’s about it but the food itself she did not eat, unless I put some kind of gravy or broth in it so that kind of destroy the point of getting this healthy dog food for her I wanted her to have good nutritional dog food without having to entice her to eat it, so I would say try it if it works then use it pricing it’s high as well
Ella –
Great product but lies about quantity also stick with chicken seems to last longer
This product is a very good source of nutrition for our furry friends it has the meat the vegetables all that good stuff that are furry friends need other than just meat im going back to the chicken one because my thing is is said on the back that you can make 48 cups out of it which is a lie my friends you do not get 48 cups and up for the price and does last me a little bit but I had to cut back on the amount of food I was feeding but the quality is very good especially for the price the only reason for my four stars is because you do not get the amount of serving that they said you get and seem to run out faster with the turkey compared to the chicken even though I’m severing the same exact way with both and oh yeah and for the consistency people please shake up your bag the powdery stuff at the bottom is your bone broth which makes it get thickened up shake the bag up so you can get that very good consistency that you need for your Furry Friends food and as it says you can choose whatever consistency you want
Sally Chuen –
My JR dont like it so i have to add it to grandma lucy to hide the smell. Very strong corriandor smell.