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Boost Fresh Food Trays: Beef review

Name: Boost Fresh Food Trays: Beef
Brand: Boost

88.4/100Outstanding

FreshAdult

Flavour

Gently cooked meals in a 400g tray, with five of six in our Outstanding band and the Fish a step behind in Excellent. The labels are refreshingly literal: the 70% meat figure is broken open into the tripe, liver and heart behind it. Very few makers write a label this legible.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Dogs new to fresh food: nothing to portion, mix or thaw
Owners who want to see inside the meat figure
Rotating proteins through the week, with five meats on one pattern
Adult dogs from toy to giant
A slightly unsettled gut, given chicory as a prebiotic on every label

Worth watching

Fish oil at 0.5% on five of six trays, so those are not fish free
Chicken behind the whitefish in the Fish, and three animals in the Meatfeast
Adult recipes only, so not a puppy's growth diet

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

How this scores

How we score

88.4/100Outstanding

Protein and processingOutstanding

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueOutstanding

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adult dogs of every size. The maker's chart gives the same portion whichever recipe is in the tray, about 600 grams a day for a 15kg dog, and opened trays belong in the fridge.

Food type

Fresh

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Beef

The score, in context

Pork 89.2
Meatfeast 88.5
Beef 88.4
Lamb 86.5
Chicken 86.0
Fish 76.6

Six recipes across Outstanding and Excellent. Typical fresh food: Outstanding.

Itemised labels carry the whole range; the meat trays sit close enough together that preference should decide, with the Pork just ahead.

What's in it

Beef70%The headline meat figure, broken open below.
Beef tripe (within the beef)17%Unusual to see in print at this level; it gives the tray its smell and its pull on a fussy dog.
Beef liver (within the beef)6%
Carrot8%
Sweet potato, kale, pea6%, 5%, 4%
Potato starchThe binder; pure starch, well down the list.
Linseed oil, fish oil0.5% eachPlant omega 3 from the linseed, the marine form from the fish oil.
Minerals, chicory powder0.1% chicoryChicory's inulin feeds the good bacteria in the large intestine.

Dosed per kilo: vitamin D3 at 200 IU, vitamin E at 50 mg, zinc at 15 mg, manganese, copper and iodine.

Fish oil at 0.5%, so this tray is not fish free.

Named ingredients

Beef 70% (including beef tripe 17%, beef liver 6%), Carrot 8%, Sweet Potato 6%, Kale 5%,Pea 4%, Potato Starch, Linseed oil (0.5%), Fish oil (0.5%), Minerals, Chicory powder (0.1%)

Against the range

Organ meat: 17% tripe, 6% liver; Each meat tray itemises its own cuts
Protein, dry matter: 53.8%; 42.3% on the Lamb up to 55% on the Fish
Carbohydrate, dry matter: 13.5%; 7.7% on the Pork up to 25% on the Lamb

The tray for a hard-to-please dog, thanks to all that tripe.

Five trays declare 70% meat and itemise the tripe, liver and heart inside it; the Fish leads with 60% whitefish and 10% chicken. Every plant entry carries a percentage, potato starch is the binder, and chicory powder at 0.1% closes almost every list.

Linseed and fish oil at 0.5% each supply the fats on five trays, while the Fish doubles the linseed and drops the fish oil. Moisture is declared between 72.0% and 80.0%, and protein reaches 42.3% to 55.0% of dry matter.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

120 kcal/100g

Protein

14%

Fat

Fibre

0.5%

Ash

Moisture

74%

Dry weight

Protein

53.8%

Fat

23.1%

Fibre

1.9%

Ash

7.7%

Carbs

13.5%

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

70%

Added water

3.5%

Carbs

11.8%

Veg

13.1%

Oils

Other

0.5%

Pricing & size