Barkin Bistro

Barkin Bistro Special Diet Chicken & Vegetables Raw review

Name: Barkin Bistro Special Diet Chicken & Vegetables Raw
Brand: Barkin Bistro

82.3/100Outstanding

RawPuppyAdult

A single-animal raw mince that shows its working, in our Outstanding band. Chicken is 85% of it, and every part is itemised: bone-in chicken, heart, gizzard and a generous 10% of liver. No category name stands in for an animal anywhere on the label.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Dogs settled on chicken. It is the only animal on the list
Owners who want organ meats in the bowl, each with its own percentage
A house feeding a puppy and an older dog at once, as every life stage is covered
Households keeping fish out, since the omega fats come from flaxseed oil
Trying raw on a small scale first: 400g packs are sold beside the 1kg

Worth watching

Chicken all the way through, so it cannot serve a dog that needs poultry left out
Fibre and ash left off the panel, and the energy figure is our estimate
The special diet name points at no named condition. Read it as an everyday chicken recipe

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

How this scores

How we score

82.3/100Outstanding

Protein and processingOutstanding

Nutritional balanceExcellent

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueOutstanding

The details

Dog fit

Listed for puppies, adults and seniors from toy to giant, with the feeding guide running from a 2kg dog to a 50kg one. Check you have freezer room and a fridge shelf for the overnight defrost.

Food type

Raw

Life stage

Puppy, Adult, Senior

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

Barkin Bistro Special Diet Chicken & Vegetables Raw 82.3

All one Outstanding. Typical raw food: Outstanding.

Named cuts, printed offal shares and a vegetable list you can picture hold it a shade above the middle of a very strong raw field.

What's in it

Chicken with bone40%Brings the calcium, ground through the bone.
Chicken heart20%Hard-working muscle.
Chicken gizzard15%
Chicken liver10%A generous organ share; liver carries much of the vitamin and mineral load.
Apple, broccoli, carrotPart of the 15% vegetable fraction, every plant named.
Cabbage, sweet potato
Flaxseed oilPressed from a seed, so no fish in the bowl.
TurmericA pinch of character.

No vitamin and mineral panel is printed, so the micronutrition rests on the offal, the bone and the plants.

Named ingredients

85% Chicken (Chicken with bone 40%, Chicken Heart 20%, Chicken Gizzard 15%, Chicken Liver 10%) 15% Fresh Vegetables (Apple, Broccoli, Carrot, Cabbage, Sweet Potato), Flaxseed Oil, Turmeric

Against the range

One raw chicken mince. The bird is 85% of it, broken into four named parts with a percentage each, and the other 15% is five named vegetables. Flaxseed oil carries the omega fats, so there is no fish on the label. There is no mineral premix: calcium comes ground through the bone.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

119.8 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

14.7%

Fat

4.35%

Moisture

68.7%

Dry weight

Protein

47%

Fat

13.9%

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

85%

Oils

9.1%

Other

5.9%

Pricing & size