Embark on Raw

Embark on Raw Chunky 80/10/10: Chicken review

Name: Embark on Raw Chunky 80/10/10: Chicken
Brand: Embark on Raw

83.6/100Outstanding

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Flavour

Raw feeding stripped to its bones, and all four recipes sit in our Outstanding band. Each is meat, ground bone and liver in the 80/10/10 split, with a chunky grind that gives a dog something to work at. No vegetables, oils or supplements appear on any label.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Raw feeders who want meat, bone and organ with nothing added
Exclusion trials on the beef or the chicken, each kept to one animal
Rotation, with one construction and a change of species
Puppies to seniors, toy to giant, as every label covers
Owners who feed by a simple percentage of bodyweight

Worth watching

Chicken liver in the turkey recipe, so not for a dog kept off chicken
A wide spread of richness, so a switch from chicken to beef needs the portion rethinking
Freezer room, a fridge defrost, and clean hands and surfaces afterwards

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

How this scores

How we score

83.6/100Outstanding

Protein and processingOutstanding

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyGood

ValueOutstanding

The details

Dog fit

Listed for every life stage and size. Embark's guide is 2% of bodyweight a day, 300 grams for a 15kg dog, and the richer recipes need that trimming by condition.

Food type

Raw

Life stage

Puppy, Adult, Senior

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

Cock 87.9
Beef 87.7
Turkey 86.5
Chicken 83.6

All four Outstanding. Typical raw food: Outstanding.

All four draw level with the typical raw food, the toughest company we score, which says the fundamentals are right.

What's in it

Chicken80%
Bone10%Shows clearly in the analysis here, with ash at 14.8% of dry matter.
Chicken livers10%Same bird, so one animal throughout.

Named ingredients

80% Chicken, 10% Bone and 10% Chicken Livers.

Against the range

Energy: 138.3 kcal per 100g; Leanest; the beef is 269.2.
Fat, dry matter: 29.3%; Up to 79.3% on the beef.
Ash, dry matter: 14.8%; Under 5% on the other three.

A gentle place to start a dog that is new to raw.

Four chunky raw recipes on the 80/10/10 split: meat, ground bone and liver, with nothing else on any label. Bone is the only mineral supply and no calcium figure is printed. Carbohydrate is zero across the range and protein converts to between 49.7% and 60.5% of dry matter.

Fat is where they separate, from 29.3% of dry matter on the chicken to 79.3% on the beef. Moisture is not declared, so the conversions use the 69.6% raw standard, and the ash readings on the beef and Cock & Bull sit oddly low for bone-in food.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

138.3 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

17.9%

Fat

8.9%

Fibre

Ash

4.5%

Dry weight

Protein

58.9%

Fat

29.3%

Fibre

3.3%

Ash

14.8%

Carbs

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