Bella + Duke

Bella + Duke Puppy Complete | Working Dog: Grass-Fed Beef review

Name: Bella + Duke Puppy Complete | Working Dog: Grass-Fed Beef
Brand: Bella + Duke

90.2/100Outstanding

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Flavour

Seven raw puppy tubs on one build, all in our Outstanding band, with no quality gap between them. Every label itemises the meat, the organ and the ground bone to the percent. The one thing it leaves out is a calcium figure.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Puppies starting raw on a bowl that is mostly animal
Rotation feeders. All seven share one build and change the species
Fish-free plans, as five of the seven name no fish anywhere
Homes with a hard-working adult too, since every tub carries the working dog designation
Growing dogs of any frame, toy through to giant

Worth watching

No calcium percentage on any tub. Raise it with Bella + Duke or your vet for a large-breed puppy
Beef in six of the seven, kelp and algae in all; the Lamb is the beef-free tub
Freezer room, an overnight defrost in the fridge and clean handling of bowls, surfaces and hands

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

How this scores

How we score

90.2/100Outstanding

Protein and processingOutstanding

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueOutstanding

The details

Dog fit

Listed for puppies of every size and for working dogs. Before ordering for a large-breed puppy, ask for the calcium figure.

Food type

Raw

Life stage

Puppy

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Beef

The score, in context

Sustainable Salmon 91.0
Grass-Fed Lamb 90.7
Grass-Fed Beef 90.2
Sustainable Fish 89.9
Higher-Welfare Turkey 89.5
Protein Packed Chicken 88.8
Nutrient Rich Duck 88.5

All seven Outstanding. Typical raw food: Outstanding.

Barely anything separates the seven on our scoring, so let your puppy's tastes and any species to avoid make the choice.

What's in it

Grass-fed beef: meat, tripe, kidney, liver, trachea60% (23%, 22%, 5%, 5%, 5%)Working cuts. Tripe is rich, easily digested and rarely refused; liver brings vitamin A and copper.
Chicken: meat, bone30% (27%, 3%)The ground bone is where the calcium comes from.
Seasonal vegetables: carrots, sprouts, broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage7% (1.4% each)Named one by one.
Blueberries1%
Hand harvested organic Scottish kelp1%Does the iodine job a mineral premix would otherwise cover.
Pure olive oil0.2%A small finishing fat.
Dried algae (Schizochytrium)0.1%Cultivated long chain omega 3, the fats fish oil usually supplies.
Beet pulp, minerals0.04% each

Vitamin D3 at 400 IU and vitamin E per kilo, with iron, zinc, manganese and copper as chelates of protein hydrolysates.

No calcium figure on the label. For a large-breed puppy, ask Bella + Duke or your vet first.

Named ingredients

Grass-fed Beef 60% (beef meat 23%, beef tripe 22%, beef kidney 5%, beef liver 5%, beef trachea 5%), chicken 30% (chicken meat 27%, chicken bone 3%), sustainable seasonal vegetables 7% (carrots 1.4%, sprouts 1.4%, broccoli 1.4%, cauliflower 1.4%, cabbage 1.4%), 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

Meat: Beef 60%, chicken 30%; Every tub holds 90% animal; the species change.
Protein, dry matter: 53.9%; Up to 69.5% on the Turkey.
Fat, dry matter: 31.5%; 17.4% on the Turkey to 32.8% on the Lamb.

A middle-weight beef tub, among the richer ones at 128 kcal per 100g.

Every tub holds 90% named animal, meat and organ with ground bone, and 7% seasonal vegetables broken out at 1.4% each. Blueberries and Scottish kelp take 1% apiece, then olive oil, dried algae, beet pulp and minerals close the list. Ground bone runs from 1% to 3% and is the calcium source, though no tub prints a calcium figure.

What varies is the animals. Beef runs through six of the seven, and only the Fish and the Salmon carry fish. Energy spans 91 to 145 kcal per 100g, and carbohydrate by difference lands between 3.0% and 6.0% of dry matter.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

128 kcal/100g

Protein

14.53%

Fat

8.49%

Fibre

0.3%

Ash

2.31%

Moisture

73.05%

Dry weight

Protein

53.9%

Fat

31.5%

Fibre

1.1%

Ash

8.6%

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

90.6%

Veg

8.2%

Oils

0.2%

Other

Pricing & size