Honey's

Honey's Active Working Dog Food: Free Range British Beef review

Name: Honey's Active Working Dog Food: Free Range British Beef
Brand: Honey's

69.1/100Good

RawAdult

Flavour

Raw feeding in its oldest, plainest form, beef or chicken minced with its bone and a third of the tub given to vegetables. Both sit in our Good band. Honey's names the farming system, the country and the cut, unusually open for raw, and adds no supplements on principle.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Working dogs and dogs in hard training
One meat per recipe, with no second species
Vegetables in the bowl instead of a supplement panel
Owners who want provenance spelled out: pasture fed beef, free range chicken
Little dogs and big ones, with 250g and 500g tubs

Worth watching

Freezer room, a fridge to thaw in, and washing up after every meal
Nothing added for vitamins or minerals, so the meat, bone and veg carry it all
A fatty Beef recipe, so a resting dog wants less than the top of the guide

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

How this scores

How we score

69.1/100Good

Protein and processingExcellent

Nutritional balanceExcellent

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults of every size. Energy is declared on both, unusually for raw, so portion from it and rotate between the two to spread the micronutrition.

Food type

Raw

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Beef

The score, in context

Free Range British Beef 69.1
Free Range British Chicken 65.5

All two Good. Typical raw food: Outstanding.

The label is not what holds the pair two bands under the middle of the raw field; the analysis is, with the Beef running distinctly fat-heavy.

What's in it

Minced pasture fed beef67%British, and named down to the farming system.
Finely minced beef boneInside the 67%. The calcium source, with no figure printed.
Beef heartAlso inside the meat share.
Minced carrot, cabbage, cauliflower, parsnip33%
Other seasonal vegetablesThe mix moves with the year, so batches differ slightly.

No calcium percentage is printed; ash at 12.2% of dry matter is the only read on the bone.

Named ingredients

Minced pasture fed beef including finely minced beef bone and heart (67%). Minced carrot, cabbage, cauliflower, parsnip and other seasonal vegetables (33%).

Against the range

Fat, dry matter: 49.2%; 38.4% on the chicken
Protein, dry matter: 35.4%; 44.9% on the chicken
Energy: 196 kcal per 100g; 140 kcal on the chicken

The recipe for a dog in genuine work, portioned with a lighter hand out of season.

Both recipes are built the same way: 67% minced British meat with the bone ground right through it, and 33% minced carrot, cabbage, cauliflower, parsnip and other seasonal vegetables. Nothing is added on top, so there is no premix, no added oil and no calcium figure; ash is the only clue to the bone.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

196 kcal/100g

Protein

12.8%

Fat

17.8%

Fibre

3.1%

Ash

4.4%

Moisture

63.8%

Dry weight

Protein

35.4%

Fat

49.2%

Fibre

8.6%

Ash

12.2%

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

67%

Veg

33%

Pricing & size