Cotswold Raw

Cotswold Raw Active 80/20 Sausages: Turkey review

Name: Cotswold Raw Active 80/20 Sausages: Turkey
Brand: Cotswold Raw

89.9/100Outstanding

RawAdult

Flavour

A complete raw recipe cased as a sausage, so a meal is something you can count, and all four reach our Outstanding band. The paperwork is what marks it out: every entry has a figure, bone and organs get their own lines, and the sourcing is on the front. Choose by animal and by how rich you want the bowl.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Owners who want raw portions they can count out, already divided
Working and sporting dogs. Energy runs up to 214 kcal per 100g
Vegetables in the bowl, each one named at 5%
Shoppers who care where the meat came from, British throughout and the chicken organic and free range
Rotation between red and white meat on one recipe

Worth watching

Wheatgerm and free range egg in every recipe, so none is wheat or egg free
Beef organs in all four. Even the lamb and turkey are not single species
The lamb is much the richest. A dog that gains easily does better on the chicken or turkey

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

How this scores

How we score

89.9/100Outstanding

Protein and processingOutstanding

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueOutstanding

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults of every size. Calories differ between flavours, so the same number of sausages is not the same meal: check the weight when you switch.

Food type

Raw

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Turkey

The score, in context

Beef 90.8
Chicken 90.4
Lamb 90.1
Turkey 89.9

All four Outstanding. Typical raw food: Outstanding.

All four hold the top band in our fiercest category, and the gaps between them are too small for a ranking to mean anything.

What's in it

British turkey with bone65%The usual choice when a dog has had enough of chicken.
Beef heart, beef liver, beef kidney5% eachThe organ work, taken from beef in every recipe.
Carrots, cauliflower, cabbage, broccoli5% eachEach declared on its own; carrot brings beta carotene and soluble fibre.
Free range eggs, milled flaxseed0.5% eachFlaxseed for plant omega 3.
Wheatgerm0.25%Small, but it means no recipe here is wheat free.
Kelp, turmeric0.15%, 0.12%Kelp for iodine.
Milk thistle, dandelion, nettle leaf, alfalfa, spirulina, thyme0.05% down to 0.02%Seasoning at these levels, and the percentages say so.

None. There is no premix: the micronutrients are meant to come from the organs, kelp, eggs and wheatgerm.

Beef organs sit in this recipe too, so it is not a single-species bowl.

Named ingredients

British turkey 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%).

Against the range

Ash, dry matter: 11.8%; The highest, a sign of a generous bone share.
Fat, dry matter: 38.2%; Between the chicken's 32.7% and the lamb's 42.5%.
Carbohydrate, dry matter: 1.3%; Up to 4.7% on the lamb.

A sound white-meat swap for a dog tired of chicken.

Every recipe is 80% British meat with bone and organ, and 20% vegetables: carrot, cauliflower, cabbage and broccoli at 5% each. Heart, liver and kidney come from beef in all four. Every entry carries a percentage, down to the thyme at 0.02%, and there is no vitamin and mineral premix at all.

The tail is the same throughout: free range egg, flaxseed, wheatgerm, kelp, turmeric and a run of herbs. What changes is the lead animal and how rich it is, with fat from 32.6% to 42.5% of dry matter and energy from 190 to 214 kcal per 100g. None of the four prints a calcium figure.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

194 kcal/100g

Protein

14.5%

Fat

11.6%

Fibre

0.3%

Ash

3.6%

Moisture

69.6%

Dry weight

Protein

47.7%

Fat

38.2%

Fibre

Ash

11.8%

Carbs

1.3%

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