Bella + Duke

Bella + Duke Adult Complete | Premium: Grass-Fed Beef review

Name: Bella + Duke Adult Complete | Premium: Grass-Fed Beef
Brand: Bella + Duke

91.3/100Outstanding

RawAdult

Flavour

Raw tubs built to one blueprint and run through eight animals, every one in our Outstanding band. The animal side is itemised down to the trachea and the bone, which few raw labels bother with. Three tubs stay on one animal and the rest pair two or three, so read the lid closely.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Dogs kept to one animal. The beef, beef tripe and lamb tubs each stay on a single species
Omega 3 without fish: the land recipes take theirs from dried algae
Rotation feeders, as all eight share a construction and swap only the animals
A lighter bowl. The white fish tub is the leanest of the eight
Buying for the freezer in 500g tubs, boxes from 4kg up to 20kg

Worth watching

Energy swings a long way. Going from duck to white fish means rethinking the portion
Five of the eight bring in a second or third animal. An exclusion plan needs the full tub read
No calcium figure on any tub. Ask if you feed a large breed
Freezer room, a fridge thaw and a wash-up for every tub

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

How this scores

How we score

91.3/100Outstanding

Protein and processingOutstanding

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueOutstanding

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults of every size. Check freezer space first: a 15kg adult gets through about 375 grams a day on most tubs and 975 on the white fish.

Food type

Raw

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Beef

The score, in context

Nutrient Rich Duck 91.7
Grass-Fed Beef 91.3
Sustainable Salmon 91.2
Grass-Fed Lamb 91.1
Grass-Fed Beef Tripe 90.9
Sustainable Fish 90.3
Higher-Welfare Turkey 90.2
Protein Packed Chicken 89.8

All eight Outstanding. Typical raw food: Outstanding.

The scores barely move across eight animals, so pick by the animal and the energy your dog needs.

What's in it

Beef meat50%The muscle, inside an 80% beef block where every part is printed.
Beef tripe14%Rich, easy to digest, and dogs rarely refuse it.
Beef kidney, liver5% each
Beef trachea, bone3% eachThe bone does the calcium work, though no calcium figure is printed.
Carrots, sprouts, broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage3.4% eachCalled seasonal, then split evenly anyway. The tub in February matches the tub in June.
Blueberries1%
Scottish kelp1%Iodine and a wide spread of trace minerals.
Olive oil0.2%Small, and useful for skin and coat.
Dried algae0.1%The omega 3 source.
Beet pulp, minerals0.04% each

Per kilo: vitamin D3 400IU, vitamin E 30mg, then iron, zinc, manganese and copper, all as chelates of protein hydrolysates, a well absorbed form.

Named ingredients

Grass-fed Beef 80% (beef meat 50%, beef tripe 14%, beef kidney 5%, beef liver 5%, beef trachea 3%, beef bone 3%), sustainable seasonal vegetables 17% (carrots 3.4%, sprouts 3.4%, broccoli 3.4%, cauliflower 3.4%, cabbage 3.4%), blueberries 1%, sustainable hand harvested organic Scottish kelp 1%, pure olive oil 0.2%, dried algae (Schizochytrium sp.) 0.1%, beet pulp 0.04%, minerals 0.04%.

Against the range

Animals: Beef only; Five tubs mix animals
Fat, dry matter: 38.7%; Second only to the duck
Energy: 147 kcal per 100g; 86 to 155

Rich, so portions run smaller than most.

Every tub is 80% animal, split into muscle, tripe, organ, trachea and bone with a percentage on each. The rest is the same in all eight: 17% vegetables in five even shares, blueberries and Scottish kelp at 1%, olive oil at 0.2% and dried algae at 0.1%. Three tubs stay on one animal and five bring in a second or third.

Protein converts to between 41.3% and 64.7% of dry matter and fat to between 18.5% and 41.8%. Carbohydrate stays between 5.4% and 8.8%. The vitamin and trace element doses are printed per kilo, with small changes on the poultry and fish tubs.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

147 kcal/100g

Protein

13.3%

Fat

11.14%

Fibre

0.57%

Ash

2.23%

Moisture

71.2%

Dry weight

Protein

46.2%

Fat

38.7%

Fibre

Ash

7.7%

Carbs

5.4%

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

80.5%

Veg

18.2%

Oils

0.2%

Other

Pricing & size