Cotswold Raw

Cotswold Raw Active 80/20 Mince: Chicken review

Name: Cotswold Raw Cotswold Raw Active 80/20 Mince: Chicken
Brand: Cotswold Raw

90.8/100Outstanding

RawAdult

Flavour

Cotswold Raw's Active 80/20 Mince is raw feeding done with the sums shown. Every recipe is 80% named British meat with bone and organs, 20% seasonal vegetables, and every single entry down to thyme at 0.02% carries a printed percentage. Raw is a strong field, and the typical raw food already sits in our Outstanding band; this range clears even that bar, with all five flavours scoring level. Choose by protein and by richness, because the construction never changes.

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Our view

Likely to suit

If you feed raw because you want to know exactly what your dog eats, this label answers you to two decimal places.

Raw feeders who want the whole recipe declared, right down to the herbs
Active and working dogs, with the energy density of a meat-and-bone recipe
Owners who like to steer richness, since the fat level moves meaningfully between flavours
Dogs that thrive on organ meat, as every flavour carries heart, liver and kidney

Worth watching

Raw asks a little more of the owner than a pouch does, so go in with eyes open.

Every flavour includes beef organs, so the chicken, lamb and turkey minces are not single-animal recipes for elimination purposes
The usual raw-handling routine applies: freezer space, fridge defrosting and clean bowls and surfaces

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

How this scores

How we score

90.8/100Outstanding

Protein and processingOutstanding

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueOutstanding

The Details

Dog fit

If you feed raw because you want to know exactly what your dog eats, this label answers you to two decimal places. Raw asks a little more of the owner than a pouch does, so go in with eyes open.

Food type

Raw

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

All five flavours sit in our Outstanding band and score level with each other. The typical raw food also sits in our Outstanding band. Even in that company, these recipes clear the typical mark.

What's in it

Ingredients, as declared: Organic & free range British chicken with bone (65%), beef heart (5%), beef liver (5%), beef kidney (5%), seasonal vegetables (carrots (5%), cauliflower (5%), cabbage (5%), broccoli (5%), free range eggs (0.5%) milled flaxseed (0.5%), wheatgerm (0.25%), kelp (0.15%), turmeric (0.12%), milk thistle (0.05%), dandelion (0.05%), nettle leaf (0.05%), alfalfa (0.025%), spirulina (0.02%), thyme (0.02%).

Named ingredients

Organic & free range British chicken with bone (65%), beef heart (5%), beef liver (5%), beef kidney (5%), seasonal vegetables (carrots (5%), cauliflower (5%), cabbage (5%), broccoli (5%), free range eggs (0.5%) milled flaxseed (0.5%), wheatgerm (0.25%), kelp (0.15%), turmeric (0.12%), milk thistle (0.05%), dandelion (0.05%), nettle leaf (0.05%), alfalfa (0.025%), spirulina (0.02%), thyme (0.02%).

Nutritional additives

No separate additives panel is published — the herbs and supplements are inline in the ingredients list, and the brand states "absolutely nothing is added that is not listed on the label".

Ingredient notes

The transparency is the story. Most raw makers stop itemising somewhere around the vegetables; this label keeps going until it has itemised the thyme. The maker states that nothing goes in that is not on the label, and with a list this granular there is nowhere for anything to hide.

Ground bone is part of the 80% meat fraction, and with no added minerals on the label it is where the calcium comes from. The organ set of heart, liver and kidney is in every flavour. Organs are the most nutrient-dense part of the animal and a core argument for feeding raw in the first place.

The 20% vegetable fraction is brassica-led, carrots, cauliflower, cabbage and broccoli at 5% each, with egg at 0.5% and then a herb garden in genuinely trace amounts. Milk thistle at 0.05% is a token, not a treatment, and the label's honesty about that is rather the point.

Carbohydrate is effectively absent, converting to between 1.3% and 6.7% of dry matter across the range. This is meat, bone, organs and vegetables, which is exactly what the front of the pack promises.

How this variety differs

Organic, free-range British chicken with bone at 65%, the only flavour with an organic headline meat.

Price and value

Per-kilo prices run from £5.95 to £7.45 by flavour, in 500g and 1kg packs.

The label feeds at roughly 2% of bodyweight a day for an adult. On our standard energy estimate instead, about 840 kcal a day for a 15kg dog in moderate condition (110 × bodyweight^0.75), daily feeding works out at between £2.58 and £3.89 depending on flavour.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

190 kcal/100g

Protein

16.7%

Fat

10.2%

Fibre

0.3%

Ash

Moisture

68.8%

Dry weight

Protein

53.5%

Fat

32.7%

Fibre

Ash

9.6%

Carbs

3.2%

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

100%

Pricing & size