Benyfit Natural Adult: Chicken & Tripe review

All eight recipes land in our Outstanding band and finish level with one another, which is unusual across a range this wide. No field we score is fiercer than raw, and the typical adult raw food carries the same band word, so the consistency here is what stands out, not one star flavour. Protein and processing and transparency read Outstanding on every recipe, and nutritional balance is Outstanding on all but the lamb. Every named ingredient carries a percentage, and the analysis runs as far as calcium.

Ingredients, as declared: 60% Chicken with Bone, 10% Green Lambs Tripe, 5% Ox Liver, 5% Ox Kidney, 9% Carrot, 8% Parsnip, 3% Broccoli, Botanicals Including: Flaxseed Oil, Kelp, Turmeric, Celery Seeds, Alfalfa, Nettles, Psyllium Husk, Clivers & Wild Yam.

One pattern, eight animals. The meat side takes 80% and is always itemised, whether that is 65% turkey with bone or a lamb recipe split across trim at 50% with tripe, heart and liver at 10% each. The plant side never changes: carrot at 9%, parsnip at 8% and broccoli at 3%, all named, not a cereal among them.

Ox heart, liver and kidney appear again and again, and organs are where a great deal of an animal's micronutrition actually sits. Liver counts most, for vitamin A and copper, with the B group behind them. Grazing animals are where tripe comes from, and the Chicken & Tripe names its tripe as green. Green means unwashed and unbleached, the form raw feeders ask for by name.

Six of the eight put bone in the meat entry and the Duck leans on a whole carcass for the same job, which leaves the Lamb as the only trimmed recipe in the range. That ground bone is doing the calcium work in place of an added mineral, and calcium runs from 1.57% to 3.1% of dry matter across the eight, with ash following the same story.

There is no vitamin and mineral premix anywhere here. Benyfit's answer is a botanical blend: flaxseed oil for omega 3 fats, kelp for iodine, psyllium husk for soluble fibre, then turmeric, celery seeds, alfalfa, nettles, clivers and wild yam as traditional herbal additions. Only the Tender Chicken prints the doses, at 0.58% kelp powder, 0.2% wild yam and 0.08% each for the rest. Those figures are a useful guide to what the word including is covering on the other seven.

Carbohydrate is an estimate by difference and it swings from 2.9% to 22.9% of dry matter, against 5.0% for the typical adult raw food. Root vegetables explain part of that, since carrot at 9% and parsnip at 8% appear in every tub, and the rest is the estimate sweeping up whatever the analysis leaves unmeasured. The Lamb sits at the top of that spread on a label with no starch on it at all, so read the list rather than the figure there.

Chicken with bone takes 60%. Green lambs tripe adds 10%, and ox liver and kidney bring 5% each. Fat converts to 38.6% of dry matter and the carbohydrate estimate is among the lowest of the eight at 3.3%.

Per kilo, the Tender Chicken and the Tasty Turkey are £5.95 and the Chicken & Tripe £5.90. The Goose & Turkey is £6.15, the Duck £6.55, the Beef & Tripe £6.60, the Succulent Beef £6.75 and the Lamb £6.95. Every flavour comes in 500g and 1kg packs.

For a 15kg adult dog in moderate condition, the target is about 840 kcal a day (110 × bodyweight^0.75, the standard maintenance estimate). A day's feeding works out between £2.92 on the Goose & Turkey and £3.65 on the Tender Chicken. The lighter recipes feed in bigger portions, which is why the daily figure does not follow the per kilo order.