Cotswold Raw

Cotswold Raw Puppy: Beef review

Name: Cotswold Raw Puppy: Beef
Brand: Cotswold Raw

90.9/100Outstanding

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Flavour

A frozen raw puppy range with everything on the label and nothing behind a premix. Two recipes put 80% British beef in the bowl, itemised down to heart, liver and kidney, and the third leads on organic, free range chicken on the bone. All three land in our Outstanding band.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Owners who want the animal share broken down cut by cut
Puppies heading for any adult size, with a feeding table from 5kg to 40kg
Vegetables, not cereal, around the meat
Choice of beef, beef and tripe, or chicken
Owners wary of premixes. Every supplement is its own line with its own figure

Worth watching

Freezer space, overnight defrosting, and washing up straight after every meal
No calcium figure printed on any recipe
Beef organs in the chicken recipe, and free range egg in all three

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

How this scores

How we score

90.9/100Outstanding

Protein and processingOutstanding

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueOutstanding

The details

Dog fit

Listed for puppies of every size. Cotswold feeds by age band and expected adult weight, so match your pup to its table, and ask for the calcium figure first if the adult will be large or giant.

Food type

Raw

Life stage

Puppy

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Beef

The score, in context

Beef 90.9
Chicken 90.8
Beef 90.3

All three Outstanding. Typical raw food: Outstanding.

All three sit a good distance above the middle of the toughest field we score, and the gaps between them are too small to pick a recipe on.

What's in it

British beef50%Muscle meat doing most of the lifting.
Veal bone10%Carries the calcium.
Beef heart10%
Beef liver, beef kidney5% eachMuch of an animal's vitamin and trace mineral content sits in the liver.
Carrots, cauliflower, cabbage, broccoli5% eachBulk and micronutrients without starch.
Free range eggs, milled flaxseed0.5% eachFlaxseed carries omega fats and fibre.
Wheatgerm, turmeric, kelp0.25% down to 0.15%Wheatgerm for vitamin E, kelp for iodine.
Diatomaceous earth0.12%A fossilised algae powder, mildly abrasive, used for gut housekeeping.
Milk thistle, dandelion, nettle leaf, alfalfa, spirulina, thyme0.05% down to 0.02%

No calcium figure on the analysis. A large or giant breed puppy owner will want to ask Cotswold for it.

Named ingredients

80% British beef (beef (50%), veal bone (10%), beef heart (10%), 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%), turmeric (0.24%), kelp (0.15%), diatomaceous earth (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

Lead meat: Beef muscle 50%; Tripe 40% or chicken on the bone 65%
Energy: 196 kcal per 100g; The richest; the tripe is 150
Fat, dry matter: 32.6%; 26.3% on the tripe

The straight red meat option, and the richest bowl of the three.

All three are built to one plan. Meat, bone and organ come first, itemised cut by cut, then carrot, cauliflower, cabbage and broccoli at 5% each, then a long tail of whole foods measured to two decimal places. Bone is ground into every mince, which is where a raw recipe gets its calcium.

There is no vitamin premix and so no additives panel: the micronutrition arrives as liver, kelp and wheatgerm. What varies is the lead meat and the richness, from 150 kcal per 100g on the tripe to 196 on the beef.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

196.5 kcal/100g

Protein

18.1%

Fat

10.4%

Fibre

0.5%

Ash

2.3%

Moisture

68.1%

Dry weight

Protein

56.7%

Fat

32.6%

Fibre

1.6%

Ash

7.2%

Carbs

1.9%

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