Albion Pet Foods Albion Raw Complete Adult: Complete Chicken review

The Complete Beef and the Complete Turkey take our Outstanding band, with the Complete Chicken following just behind them in our Excellent band. Raw is the most demanding company on our scoring, and the typical adult raw food already carries the Outstanding word. An Excellent result here is a strong food measured against exceptional ones, and nothing about it is weak. All three labels are put together the same way, so the animal is the sensible thing to choose on. One thing to flag about the analysis: Albion declares no energy figure on any of the three, so those numbers are estimates.

Ingredients, as declared: Chicken including approx. 10% minced bone 73%, Chicken liver 5%, Chicken heart 5%, Apple 5%, Sweet potato 5%, Carrots 5%, Dicalcium 1%, Yucca extract, green tea extract, vitamins 1%

Each recipe is one animal wearing three hats. Muscle meat leads. Heart and liver follow at 5% each, and in the chicken the minced bone is spelled out as roughly 10% of the chicken share. Organ meats are where much of an animal's micronutrition sits, and having them named and percentaged is the sort of labelling raw feeders shop for.

The plant fraction changes with the recipe. Beef and turkey take butternut squash at 10% with red cabbage and green beans behind it, while the chicken takes apple, sweet potato and carrots at 5% apiece. These are small inclusions doing fibre and texture work, and the carbohydrate estimates stay low across all three.

Dicalcium phosphate appears on every label, which is the clearest sign that these are built as standalone complete foods. Ground bone alone can leave calcium and phosphorus wandering between batches, and adding the mineral directly is how a maker takes control of that. The exact calcium content is not printed, so the approach itself is the reassurance on offer.

A vitamin and mineral inclusion closes each label, at 1% in the chicken and turkey and 2% in the beef, and the chicken adds yucca extract and green tea extract alongside it. Neither of those is doing much at that inclusion, though yucca has a long association with stool odour and green tea with antioxidant claims. What is missing is an itemised panel, so the individual amounts are taken on the maker's word.

The three analyses are not interchangeable. The beef is the richest at 33.3% dry matter fat, the chicken sits at 25.2% and the turkey at 17.9%, while protein runs high on all three, from 52.5% to 55.0% of dry matter. The turkey also declares the most ash at 16.6% of dry matter, which is what a properly bone-in recipe tends to look like.

Chicken at 73% with roughly 10% of that as minced bone, plus chicken liver and chicken heart at 5% each, and apple, sweet potato and carrots making up the fruit and vegetable share. This is the least energy dense of the three at 101.4 kcal per 100g, so the bowl it fills is the biggest. Its 54.2% dry matter protein is the second highest here.

The range is sold frozen, in boxes of 12 packs of 454 g. Albion does not ship a single box on its own: the minimum order is 11kg of frozen meat, which works out at 24 packets, so the delivery stays cold on the way to you.

A 15kg adult dog in moderate condition needs about 840 kcal a day (110 × bodyweight^0.75, the standard maintenance estimate). On that basis the Complete Beef feeds at roughly 621g a day, the Complete Turkey at 747g and the Complete Chicken at 828g. Those amounts follow energy density, and the energy figures here are estimates, so treat them as a starting point and adjust to the dog in front of you.