Cotswold Raw

Cotswold Raw Puppy: Beef & Tripe review

Name: Cotswold Raw Puppy: Beef & Tripe
Brand: Cotswold Raw

90.3/100Outstanding

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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

90.3/100Outstanding

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

Beef tripe40%Easy on a young digestion, and famously pungent.
Beef with bone20%
Beef heart10%
Beef liver, beef kidney5% each
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 tripe (40%), beef with bone (20%), 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: Tripe 40%; Beef muscle or chicken on the others
Energy: 150 kcal per 100g; The lightest; the beef is 196
Protein, dry matter: 60.2%; The highest in the range

The leanest recipe, and kind to a young stomach if you can live with the smell.

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

150 kcal/100g

Protein

14.7%

Fat

6.42%

Fibre

0.3%

Ash

1.9%

Moisture

75.6%

Dry weight

Protein

60.2%

Fat

26.3%

Fibre

1.2%

Ash

7.8%

Carbs

4.5%

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

100%

Pricing & size