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Dr. Marty Nature's Blend Healthy Growth Puppy Freeze-Dried Raw Dog Food
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Dr. Marty Nature's Blend Healthy Growth Freeze-Dried Raw Puppy Food
Healthy Growth is the only bag in the Nature's Blend line that is genuinely puppy food. That isn't a marketing distinction, it's a labeling one, and it's the most important thing on this page.
What separates this from every other Dr. Marty bag
Every other Nature's Blend formula, Essential Wellness and Small Breed included, carries an AAFCO statement for adult maintenance. This one carries a statement for growth, and it includes the clause that matters most: including growth of large size dogs (70 lb. or more as an adult).
That second half is worth reading twice. Large-breed puppies grow fast enough that too much calcium, or simply too much food, during that window can do real damage to developing joints. AAFCO treats large-breed growth as a separate bar a food either clears or doesn't, and a food can be entirely suitable for a Jack Russell puppy while failing it. Plenty of bags on plenty of shelves say "puppy" on the front and carry no growth statement anywhere on the back.
So if you have a Lab, a shepherd, a retriever or a doodle headed for 70 pounds or more, this is the Dr. Marty bag, and none of the others are a substitute.
How it differs from the adult formula
Healthy Growth is Essential Wellness with two additions: goat milk and seaweed-derived calcium. Everything else in the ingredient list is the same, in the same order.
Those two additions do the work. Calcium is guaranteed at 1.2% here against 0.5% in the adult formula, and iron at 90 mg/kg against 40. Puppies building skeleton and blood volume need both. The growth statement is what tells you those levels sit inside AAFCO's growth profile rather than just being higher numbers.
It's also a touch leaner than the adult formula. Healthy Growth guarantees 32% fat where Essential Wellness guarantees 33%, which runs against the assumption that puppy food is always the richer bag.
What's in it
Turkey, beef, salmon and duck lead, then beef liver, turkey liver and turkey heart. Organ meat sits high on the list on purpose... liver is among the densest natural sources of vitamin A, copper and B12 there is. From there it moves into flaxseed, sweet potato, egg, goat milk, then apple, blueberry, carrot, seaweed-derived calcium, cranberry, pumpkin seed, spinach, kelp, ginger, sunflower seed, broccoli and kale. Mixed tocopherols, a natural vitamin E, are the only preservative. No corn, wheat, soy or added grain.
Full ingredient list
Turkey, Beef, Salmon, Duck, Beef Liver, Turkey Liver, Turkey Heart, Flaxseed, Sweet Potato, Egg, Pea Protein, Goat Milk, Apple, Blueberry, Carrot, Seaweed-Derived Calcium, Cranberry, Pumpkin Seed, Spinach, Dried Kelp, Ginger, Salt, Sunflower Seed, Broccoli, Kale, Mixed Tocopherols (preservative).
Guaranteed analysis
- Crude Protein (min) ... 40%
- Crude Fat (min) ... 32%
- Crude Fiber (max) ... 4%
- Moisture (max) ... 6%
- Calcium (min) ... 1.2%
- Iron (min) ... 90 mg/kg
- Leucine (min) ... 2%
- Vitamin A (min) ... 50,000 IU/kg
- Omega-3 Fatty Acids (min) ... 2.5%*
*Omega-3 fatty acids are not recognized as essential nutrients by the AAFCO Dog Food Nutrient Profiles.
This is Dr. Marty's official guaranteed analysis. Dr. Marty confirmed these figures to us in October 2026. With their move to in-house manufacturing, Dr. Marty now guarantees higher protein and fat minimums in every bag. The recipe itself has not changed, and neither have the calories or the feeding amounts. Some older bags still on shelves print the previous figures (37% protein, 27% fat), so you may see either set of numbers on a package for a while.
AAFCO statement
Formulated to meet the nutritional levels established by the AAFCO Dog Food Nutrient Profiles for growth, including growth of large size dogs (70 lb. or more as an adult).
Calorie content
4,969 kcal/kg ... 263 kcal per cup. A cup here means a standard 8-fluid-ounce dry measuring cup, filled level. It holds about 53 grams of this food, so it does not hold 8 ounces by weight... measure by volume, not on a scale.
Feeding guidelines
Dr. Marty publishes two columns for this formula, because a puppy's needs drop sharply once it is past the fastest part of its growth. Amounts are dry, before water, split across two or three meals a day while they are small.
| Puppy's weight | 0 to 4 months | 4 months to adult |
|---|---|---|
| 5 lb | 1½ cups | 1 cup |
| 10 lb | 2½ cups | 1¾ cups |
| 15 lb | 3½ cups | 2¼ cups |
| 20 lb | 4¼ cups | 2¾ cups |
| 25 lb | 5 cups | 3⅓ cups |
| 30 lb | 5¾ cups | 3¾ cups |
| 40 lb | 7 cups | 4¼ cups |
| 50 lb | — | 5½ cups |
| 60 lb | — | 6⅓ cups |
| 70 lb | — | 7 cups |
Go by the puppy's weight today, not the weight you expect them to reach. Re-weigh every couple of weeks, because at this stage the right amount changes faster than anything else about feeding them. A growing puppy should stay lean... you want to feel ribs under a thin covering without pressing. Puppies carrying extra weight during growth is one of the few feeding mistakes with long-term consequences, and your vet will tell you the same.
Dr. Marty's guidance on how long to stay on a puppy formula, which is their recommendation rather than a label statement: small breeds roughly 6 weeks to 9 months, medium breeds 6 weeks to 12 months, and large or extra-large breeds 6 weeks to 24 months.
How to rehydrate
Add warm water at two parts food to one part water, let it stand three minutes, then stir it through. Because this food is raw and not cooked, handle it as you would raw meat: wash your hands and the bowl afterwards, and don't leave a rehydrated portion out at room temperature.
Switching over
Ten days rather than overnight. Replace 25% of the current food on days one to three, 50% on days four to six, 75% on days seven to nine, then all of it from day ten.
Sizes, and how many cups you get
6 oz, 16 oz, 48 oz and 80 oz. Those work out to roughly 3¼, 8½, 25¾ and 43 level cups. Worth doing the arithmetic before you buy: a 20 lb puppy under four months eats 4¼ cups a day, which is two days from a 16 oz bag. Puppies are the one case where the largest bag is almost always the right call.
Storage
Seal the bag fully after each use, somewhere cool and dry. Dr. Marty puts an opened bag at up to three months, with heat and humidity being what shortens it.
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