Benyfit Natural Adult Meat Feast review

This food sits in our Outstanding band, with protein and processing, nutritional balance, transparency and value all reading Outstanding. The typical raw food is Outstanding as well, which is a measure of how strong the raw category is, and no mark against this recipe. It stands shoulder to shoulder with the strongest field we cover.

Ingredients, as declared: 80% Free Range Turkey with Bone, 10% Green Lambs Tripe, 5% Ox Liver, 5% Ox Kidney, Botanicals Including: Flaxseed Oil, Kelp, Turmeric, Celery Seeds, Alfalfa, Nettles, Psyllium Husk, Clivers & Wild Yam.

The proportions follow the prey-model pattern raw feeders will know by heart: 80% meat with bone, 10% tripe, and 10% organs split evenly between liver and kidney. The turkey is free range and ground with its bone. That bone is where the calcium comes from in a recipe with no added minerals, and it converts to 1.9% of dry matter. The crude ash figure of 16.6% of dry matter confirms there is real bone in the grind.

The tripe is green lamb's tripe, the unbleached sort, prized in raw feeding for its digestive reputation and for being the ingredient most dogs would vote for first. It does announce itself from across the room, which experienced raw feeders come to accept as part of the deal.

Ox liver and kidney at 5% each supply the organ share, and organs are the most nutrient-dense part of the animal, a core reason this style of feeding works without a long added-vitamin panel. They also quietly bring beef into a turkey-led recipe, the one detail to note if your dog is touchy about it.

The botanicals close the list: flaxseed oil for omega fats, kelp for iodine and trace minerals, psyllium husk for gentle fibre, then a run of herbs from turmeric to wild yam. None of them carries a percentage, and at the tail of a list this meat-heavy they are a garnish rather than a load-bearing wall. Carbohydrate is all but absent, estimated at 2.1% as fed, which is exactly what the front of the tub implies.

£6.15 a kilo, sold in 500g and 1kg packs.

As a guide, a 15kg adult dog in moderate condition needs about 535 grams a day, assuming around 840 kcal a day (110 × bodyweight^0.75, the standard maintenance estimate). That works out at roughly £3.29 a day. The maker's own guide runs from 100 to 150 grams a day for a 5kg dog up to 800 to 1200 grams for a 40kg dog.