Barkin Bistro

Barkin Bistro Special Diet Chicken & Vegetables Raw review

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

82.3/100Outstanding

RawPuppyAdult

Barkin Bistro's Special Diet mince keeps the animal side to one bird and shows its working. Chicken is 85% of it, itemised as chicken with bone at 40%, heart at 20%, gizzard at 15% and liver at 10%. Fresh vegetables make up the remaining 15%, from apple and broccoli through to cabbage and sweet potato, with flaxseed oil and turmeric closing the list. No category name stands in for an animal anywhere on the label, and the mince lands in our Outstanding band. It is written for puppies, adults and older dogs, in every size from toy to giant.

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Our view

Likely to suit

If you like a chicken bowl that names every part of the bird it uses, this one reads beautifully.

Dogs settled on chicken, since chicken is the only animal the ingredients list names
Owners who want organ meats in the bowl, with heart, gizzard and liver each carrying their own percentage
A household where a puppy and an older dog both need feeding, since the label covers every life stage
Small dogs and giants alike, with the feeding guide running from a 2kg dog up to a 50kg one
Anyone starting small before filling the freezer, with 400g packs sold alongside the 1kg

Worth watching

Raw feeding asks you for a routine, and this label repays a close read before you begin.

Chicken runs through the entire recipe, so it cannot serve a dog that needs poultry left out
The panel prints protein, fat and moisture and stops there, leaving fibre and ash undeclared and the energy figure an estimate
Frozen mince needs freezer room, an overnight defrost in the fridge, and clean bowls and hands afterwards
The special diet name does not point at any named condition, so 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

If you like a chicken bowl that names every part of the bird it uses, this one reads beautifully. Raw feeding asks you for a routine, and this label repays a close read before you begin.

Food type

Raw

Life stage

Puppy, Adult, Senior

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

Outstanding is where this mince lands, and raw is the toughest company a bowl can keep, with the middle of the adult raw field carrying that same word. Holding a place a shade above that middle mark counts for something, with protein and processing, transparency and value all reading Outstanding. The named cuts, the printed offal shares and a vegetable list you can picture are what earn it.

What's in it

Ingredients, as declared: 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

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

Ingredient notes

Chicken accounts for 85% of the mince, and Barkin Bistro breaks that share into four named parts. Chicken with bone at 40% brings the calcium, and heart at 20% and gizzard at 15% are hard-working muscle. Liver at 10% is a generous organ share by any measure, since liver carries much of an animal's vitamin and mineral load.

Every plant in the 15% vegetable fraction is named: apple, broccoli and carrot, then cabbage and sweet potato. That matters more than it sounds. A label that simply says vegetables can move its mix from batch to batch without telling anyone, and this one has closed that door.

Flaxseed oil handles the omega fats. Because it is pressed from a seed rather than a fish, nothing on this label puts fish in the bowl, which is useful knowledge for a household keeping it out. Turmeric sits at the tail as a pinch of character.

Calcium works out at 1.76% of dry matter and it arrives the way a raw recipe intends, ground through the bone rather than poured in from a mineral premix. No vitamin and mineral panel is printed at all, so the micronutrition rests on the offal, the bone and the plants. The analysis is spare in the same way, with protein at 14.7% and fat at 4.3% as fed against 68.7% moisture. Fibre and ash are left undeclared, and energy is given as an estimate of 120 kcal per 100g.

Price and value

£5.73 a kilo. It is sold in 400g and 1kg packs.

A 15kg adult dog in moderate condition needs roughly 840 kcal a day on the standard maintenance estimate (110 × bodyweight^0.75). At an estimated 120 kcal per 100g that comes to about 701 grams, or £4.02 a day.

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