Bella + Duke

Bella + Duke Puppy Complete | Premium: Sustainable Salmon review

Name: Bella + Duke Puppy Complete | Premium: Sustainable Salmon
Brand: Bella + Duke

91/100Outstanding

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Flavour

Raw puppy tubs built on the house plan of 85% named animal and 12% vegetables, set up for growth by pairing animals instead of leaning on one. Every recipe names its bone share and prints the trace elements in full. All seven land in our Outstanding band, and the salmon is the only one to declare calcium.

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Our view

Likely to suit

A first go at raw for a puppy, with the balancing already done
Puppies of every build, toy through to giant
A large-breed pup, on the salmon tub: calcium declared at 1.24% of dry matter
Homes already on the brand's adult tubs
Small appetites. 500g tubs thaw quickly and waste little
Owners who like meat, tripe, organs and bone each given a percentage

Worth watching

No calcium figure on six of the seven; there the growth minerals rest on the bone share
A second or third animal in every tub, so read each label for an exclusion plan
Lighter than the typical raw puppy food, so bowls run large

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

How this scores

How we score

91/100Outstanding

Protein and processingOutstanding

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueOutstanding

The details

Dog fit

Listed for puppies of every size. For a large breed, start on the salmon tub or ask the maker for the calcium on the others.

Food type

Raw

Life stage

Puppy

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Salmon

The score, in context

Grass-Fed Beef 91.3
Sustainable Salmon 91.0
Higher-Welfare Turkey 90.4
Nutrient Rich Duck 90.1
Protein Packed Chicken 90.1
Grass-Fed Lamb 90.0
Sustainable Fish 89.0

All seven Outstanding. Typical raw food: Outstanding.

Seven tubs, all at the top of a strong category, with almost nothing between them.

What's in it

Salmon meat, salmon bone31%, 2%33% MSC salmon.
Beef tripe15%Part of 30% beef.
Beef kidney, liver, trachea5% each
Turkey meat, turkey bone21%, 1%Higher-welfare turkey, 22%.
Carrots, sprouts, broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage2.4% eachThe 12% vegetable share, split five ways.
Blueberries, Scottish kelp1% eachKelp for iodine.
Psyllium husk0.4%Soluble fibre, on this tub only.
Olive oil, dried algae, beet pulp, minerals

Iron, zinc, manganese at 35mg and copper at 1mg, all as chelates of protein hydrolysates, with vitamin E at 40mg; no vitamin D3, the fish carries it.

Named ingredients

Sustainable Salmon (MSC) 33% (salmon meat 31%, salmon bone 2%), grass-fed beef 30% (beef tripe 15%, beef kidney 5%, beef liver 5%, beef trachea 5%), higher-welfare turkey 22% (turkey meat 21%, turkey bone 1%), sustainable seasonal vegetables 12% (carrots 2.4%, sprouts 2.4%, broccoli 2.4%, cauliflower 2.4%, cabbage 2.4%), blueberries 1%, sustainable hand harvested organic Scottish kelp 1%, psyllium husk 0.4%, pure olive oil 0.2%, dried algae (Schizochytrium sp.) 0.1%, beet pulp 0.04%, minerals 0.04%.

Against the range

Calcium: 1.24% of dry matter, declared; Not printed on the other six
Other animals on the label: Beef and turkey; Chicken in four of the others
Psyllium husk: 0.4%; Not in the others

For a large-breed puppy, this is the tub with the calcium figure in print, inside the growth range.

Every tub is 85% animal and 12% vegetables, with the meat side broken into muscle, tripe, organs, trachea and bone, each percentaged. Every recipe pairs at least two animals. Bone runs from 1% to 3% and is the calcium source; only the salmon prints a calcium figure.

The vegetables are five equal shares of carrots, sprouts, broccoli, cauliflower and cabbage, with blueberries, kelp, olive oil and algae closing the list. Protein converts to between 51.0% and 62.7% of dry matter, and energy runs from 99 to 151 kcal per 100g, under the 155 typical.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

124 kcal/100g

Protein

15.29%

Fat

7.74%

Fibre

0.79%

Ash

1.47%

Moisture

73.39%

Dry weight

Protein

57.5%

Fat

29.1%

Fibre

Ash

5.5%

Carbs

4.9%

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

85.2%

Veg

13.1%

Oils

0.2%

Other

1.4%

Pricing & size