Able

AbleThrive Puppy: Beef and Lamb with Duck review

Name: AbleThrive Puppy: Beef and Lamb with Duck
Brand: Able

81.2/100Outstanding

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Flavour

Able's raw plan trimmed to six recipes for a dog's first year, each declaring 80% named animal with bone and offal counted inside. There is no added premix: whole ingredients carry the micronutrition. All six reach our Outstanding band, covering birds, red meat and mixtures of the two.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Feeding a young dog raw from a short menu
Rotation, since the six differ only in their animals
Keeping cereal and starch out of the bowl
Any size of dog, toy to giant

Worth watching

Cod liver oil on all six, so fish is in every recipe
Frozen portions: freezer room, a planned defrost and a clean-up afterwards
No calcium percentage printed

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

How this scores

How we score

81.2/100Outstanding

Protein and processingOutstanding

Nutritional balanceGood

TransparencyExcellent

ValueOutstanding

The details

Dog fit

Listed for puppies of every size. Calcium comes from the ground bone with no figure printed, so for a large or giant breed put that question to your vet before ordering.

Food type

Raw

Life stage

Puppy

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Beef

The score, in context

Beef 88.9
Chicken 88.8
Chicken 88.5
Chicken 86.7
Lamb 85.1
Beef 81.2

All six Outstanding. Typical raw food: Outstanding.

The six finish so close together that the ranking tells you little; they match an exceptional raw field.

What's in it

Beef47.5%
Lamb (including bone)25%Supplies the bone.
Duck (including offal)7.5%Supplies the offal.
Carrot, butternut squash, broccoli, kaleThe vegetables sit behind the meat; nothing cereal.
Flaxseed mealFibre and omega fats.
Kelp mealNamed as the iodine source.
Cod liver oil, wheatgerm oilVitamin D and vitamin E. The cod liver oil puts fish in every recipe.
Cranberries, blueberries
Turmeric, spirulina, green lipped mussel, chicory root, spinach, bilberry, gingko biloba powdersThe mussel is a gesture towards joint care this far down.

No added premix: Able names kelp, wheatgerm oil, cod liver oil and the liver as the micronutrient sources, with nothing printed as a dose.

Named ingredients

Beef 47.5%, lamb 25% (including bone), duck 7.5% (including offal), 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

Energy: 186 kcal per 100g; 131 to 187 across the six.
Carbohydrate, dry matter: 35.4%; The highest estimate; zero on two others.
Nutritional balance: Good; Outstanding on four of the others.

The one for a young dog that needs concentrated food in a modest bowl.

Every label runs to the same order and declares 80% named animal, with bone and offal counted inside it. Vegetables follow with carrot in front, then flaxseed meal, kelp, cod liver oil and wheatgerm oil, berries and a botanical tail. Nothing cereal appears. The animals are the only real variable.

The carbohydrate line is worked out by difference, so on a starch-free list it collects whatever the analysis did not account for. Two of the six come out at zero.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

186 kcal/100g

Protein

13.4%

Fat

13%

Fibre

1.6%

Ash

1.7%

Moisture

54%

Dry weight

Protein

29.1%

Fat

28.3%

Fibre

3.5%

Ash

3.7%

Carbs

35.4%

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

80.1%

Veg

17.7%

Oils

0.7%

Other

1.5%

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 (our estimate): 300 to 450 g a day, 375 in the middle
Cost per day, 15kg dog: £2.72

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.