Barkin Bistro

Barkin Bistro Raw 80:10:10: Venison review

Name: Barkin Bistro Raw 80:10:10: Venison
Brand: Barkin Bistro

84.9/100Outstanding

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Flavour

Raw feeding at its plainest: one animal, its meat, its organs and usually its bone, five times over. Four sit in our Outstanding band and the Turkey in Excellent. For a dog on an exclusion diet, that plainness is the whole attraction.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Exclusion diets. Each mince names one animal and nothing else
A dog the usual meats have upset, with venison and pork novel for most
Raw feeders who want the organs itemised: liver, kidney, pancreas, spleen
Working cuts such as heart, tripe and tongue, a long way from a plain mince
Mixed-age homes, with four of the five listed for puppies, adults and seniors

Worth watching

No vitamin or mineral additives on any of the five, so the organs and bone do all of that work
Freezer storage and raw hygiene: wash hands, bowls and surfaces after every meal

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

How this scores

How we score

84.9/100Outstanding

Protein and processingOutstanding

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyExcellent

ValueOutstanding

The details

Dog fit

Listed for every size, and for puppies through seniors on all but the Turkey. For a dog fed a single mince for life, ask Barkin Bistro for the calcium behind the bone share; only the Lamb prints it.

Food type

Raw

Life stage

Puppy, Adult, Senior

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Venison

The score, in context

Lamb 86.8
Pork 86.8
Venison 84.9
Beef 84.8
Turkey 75.6

Five recipes across Outstanding and Excellent. Typical raw food: Outstanding.

Four of the five keep pace with the strongest field we score, and the Turkey falls a step behind on transparency.

What's in it

Irish venison meat80%The most novel meat in the range. No plant on the label, so the 20.5% carbohydrate estimate is an artefact
Liver
KidneyWith the liver, 10% offal
Bone10%

Named ingredients

80% Irish Venison Meat, 10% Offal (Liver, Kidney), 10% Bone

Against the range

Fat, dry matter: 15.5%; The leanest; 25.0% to 56.1% on the others
Meat: Irish venison; Beef, lamb, pork and turkey

A natural first choice for a dog being moved to a meat it has never met.

Five raw minces, each one animal from first word to last, built roughly four fifths muscle, a tenth organs and a tenth bone. There are no vegetables, no oils and no vitamin or mineral additives anywhere, so the organs carry the micronutrition. What varies is how each label reaches the split: the Beef and Venison state it, the Lamb builds it from named cuts, and the Pork lists no bone at all.

Protein converts to between 51.0% and 68.7% of dry matter and fat between 15.5% and 56.1%. Only the Lamb prints a calcium figure.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

134.2 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

19.05%

Fat

5.14%

Fibre

0.24%

Ash

Moisture

66.77%

Dry weight

Protein

57.3%

Fat

15.5%

Fibre

0.7%

Ash

Carbs

20.5%

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

100%

Pricing & size