Barkin Bistro

Barkin Bistro Raw Blends: Beef Heart, Tripe & Chicken review

Name: Barkin Bistro Raw Blends: Beef Heart, Tripe & Chicken
Brand: Barkin Bistro

87.3/100Outstanding

RawPuppyAdult

Flavour

Three frozen raw minces built on tripe, each paired with a bone-in bird and finished with liver and kidney. Nothing plant based appears anywhere. All three sit in our Outstanding band and finish level, so the choice comes down to animals.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Fussy eaters and dogs off their food; few bowls tempt like tripe
Delicate digestion, as green tripe is famously gentle
Large-breed puppies, with two blends declaring calcium at a level suited to steady growth
Mixed households, since all three cover puppies to seniors, toy to giant

Worth watching

Two species in every blend, so none suits a single-protein trial
Freezer space, an overnight thaw and a lidded bowl for the smell
No added vitamins or minerals to check against; ask the maker about long-term balance if fed alone

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

How this scores

How we score

87.3/100Outstanding

Protein and processingOutstanding

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueOutstanding

The details

Dog fit

Listed for puppies, adults and seniors of every size. A 15kg adult takes 300 to 450 grams a day, placed by its waistline.

Food type

Raw

Life stage

Puppy, Adult, Senior

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Beef

The score, in context

Lamb Tripe 87.8
Beef Heart 87.3
Beef Tripe 87.1

All three Outstanding. Typical raw food: Outstanding.

Nothing separates the three once the numbers are in, so choose by which animals suit your dog.

What's in it

Beef tripe50%Protein, natural fat and a strong pull to the bowl.
Beef heart20%A working muscle, dense in taurine and B vitamins.
Chicken with bone20%Where the calcium comes from.
Beef liver5%Vitamin A, B12 and copper.
Beef kidney5%

Named ingredients

50% Beef Tripe, 20% Beef Heart, 20% Chicken with Bone, 5% Beef Liver, 5% Beef Kidney.

Against the range

Tripe: 50%; 70% on the Beef Tripe, 60% on the Lamb.
Heart: Beef heart, 20%; Not on the other two.
Calcium, dry matter: 1.12%; 1.43% on the Beef Tripe; the Lamb declares none.
Fat, dry matter: 32.8%; The leanest; the Lamb is 38.3%.

The heart makes this the most varied of the three, and the leanest.

Every blend is tripe at 50%, 60% or 70%, paired with a bone-in bird and finished with liver and kidney. Each entry is named and given a percentage. There is no vegetable, no oil and no added vitamin or mineral list on any of them, so carbohydrate reads at or near zero.

Protein converts to between 53.3% and 62.4% of dry matter and fat between 32.8% and 38.3%. The bone supplies the calcium; two blends declare it. What changes is the pairing: beef with chicken twice, lamb with duck once.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

130.7 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

16%

Fat

8.77%

Fibre

0.3%

Ash

1.6%

Moisture

73.3%

Dry weight

Protein

59.9%

Fat

32.8%

Fibre

1.1%

Ash

Carbs

0.2%

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