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AbleThrive Adult: Lamb and Turkey with Beef review

Name: AbleThrive Adult: Lamb and Turkey with Beef
Brand: Able

85.1/100Outstanding

RawAdult

Flavour

A ten-recipe raw range that keeps one blueprint and changes the animals, all ten in our Outstanding band. There is no premix: Able builds the micronutrition from whole ingredients, with liver, kelp and two oils doing the work. Every animal is named and measured.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Owners who like a label that reads like a shopping list
Adult dogs, with animal ingredients doing the work
Rotation feeders: ten recipes built alike
Dogs kept off grain and starch
Any size, from toy to giant

Worth watching

Cod liver oil on all ten labels, so no recipe is fish free
Frozen food: freezer space, an overnight defrost and clean surfaces come with it

Written by our editorial team. Independent guidance, not veterinary advice.

How this scores

How we score

85.1/100Outstanding

Protein and processingOutstanding

Nutritional balanceExcellent

TransparencyExcellent

ValueOutstanding

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adult dogs of every size. For a 15kg dog the maker's chart runs from 400 to 615 grams a day, depending on the recipe.

Food type

Raw

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Beef

The score, in context

Lamb 89.8
Lamb 89.7
Turkey 89.3
Beef 88.9
Chicken 88.8
Chicken 88.5
Chicken 88.2
Chicken 86.6
Lamb 85.1
Beef 81.2

All ten Outstanding. Typical raw food: Outstanding.

Matching the raw category's top word ten times over is the real result here.

What's in it

Beef50%Including liver.
Lamb10%Including bone.
Turkey15%
Carrot, butternut squash, broccoli, kaleCarrot leads the vegetables. No cereal anywhere.
Flaxseed mealFibre and omega fats.
Kelp mealAble's source for iodine.
Cod liver oilVitamin D and omega 3, and it puts fish on every label.
Wheatgerm oilVitamin E.
Cranberries, blueberries
Turmeric, spirulina, green-lipped mussel, chicory root, spinach, bilberry, gingko bilobaPowders at trace level. The mussel is a nod towards joint care.

No premix: Able states kelp covers iodine, wheatgerm oil vitamin E, cod liver oil vitamin D, and the liver the B vitamins.

Named ingredients

Beef 50% (including liver), lamb 10% (including bone), turkey 15%, carrot, butternut squash, broccoli, kale, flaxseed meal, kelp meal, cod liver oil, wheatgerm oil, cranberries, blueberries, turmeric, spirulina powder, green lipped mussel powder, chicory root powder, spinach powder, bilberry powder, gingko biloba powder.

Against the range

Meat: 75% in all; 80% on the other nine
Energy: 189 kcal per 100g, the densest; 124 to 187 kcal
Carbohydrate, dry matter: 22.9% by difference; Nothing starchy on the label

The one recipe a step lower on animal share, and the most energy dense.

Ten raw recipes on one blueprint. Nine declare 80% named animal and the Lamb and Turkey with Beef 75%, with bone, liver or offal counted inside the meat figure. Carrot, butternut squash, broccoli and kale follow, then flaxseed meal, kelp, cod liver oil and wheatgerm oil, and a trace-level tail of berries and powders.

No cereal and no vitamin or mineral premix appear on any label; ground bone supplies the calcium. What changes from recipe to recipe is the cast, from one animal up to three.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

189 kcal/100g

Protein

13.1%

Fat

11%

Fibre

1.67%

Ash

3.74%

Moisture

61.7%

Dry weight

Protein

34.2%

Fat

28.7%

Fibre

4.4%

Ash

9.8%

Carbs

22.9%

As-fed composition

Estimated breakdown of the finished product by ingredient category, from the declared ingredient list and ingoing weights. These are estimates, not measurements.

Meat

75.1%

Veg

22.1%

Oils

0.9%

Other

1.8%

Pricing & size

Price per kilo: £7.25 (RRP)
Pack: 150g x 28 packs (4.2kg), 200g x 20 packs (4kg), 250g x 18 packs (4.5kg), 300g x 16 packs (4.8kg), 350g x 12 packs (4.2kg), 400g x 12 packs (4.8kg), 500g x 10 packs (5kg)
A 15kg dog eats: 400 g a day
Cost per day, 15kg dog: £2.90

Premium end of the market for a raw food, and strong value for what is in the recipe.

Ingredients and nutrition are taken from manufacturer data. Retailer pricing is not yet live for this food.