Honey's

Honey's Raw Lean: Duck review

Name: Honey's Raw Lean: Duck
Brand: Honey's

81.4/100Outstanding

RawAdult

Flavour

Honey's lean raw line, built for a dog carrying more weight than suits it, and all five recipes sit in our Outstanding band. The usual Honey's build holds: two thirds meat and bone, one third vegetables. What changes is the cuts, picked to keep the fat down while the protein holds up.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Dogs on a weight plan. The cuts are leaner, the helpings are not smaller
Single-meat feeding, as each tub names one animal and no second species
Older dogs slowing down whose appetites have not
Owners who want vegetables doing the bulking: a third of every tub
A careful first go at raw, with 250g and 500g tubs on every recipe

Worth watching

Big helpings, so the freezer fills faster; thaw overnight in the fridge and wash up properly
No vitamins or minerals added, so the whole load sits with the meat, bone and vegetables
Ground bone in all five with no calcium figure declared

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

How this scores

How we score

81.4/100Outstanding

Protein and processingOutstanding

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueOutstanding

The details

Dog fit

Written for adult dogs needing to lose weight, of any size. Feed to Honey's chart and check the waist, since lean food goes in bigger portions.

Food type

Raw

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Duck

The score, in context

Pork 82.8
Turkey 82.0
Beef 81.6
Lamb 81.6
Duck 81.4

All five Outstanding. Typical raw food: Outstanding.

Holding this standard while stripping fat out is the achievement here, with the Pork a shade ahead of the other four.

What's in it

Minced free range duck67% with the bone
Finely minced bone
Minced carrot, cabbage, cauliflower, parsnip33% with the line belowThe vegetable third, named; in a lean recipe it fills the bowl and carries the fibre.
Other seasonal vegetables

Nothing is added: no premix, no oil. Ground bone runs through it with no calcium figure to check.

Named ingredients

Minced free range duck and finely minced bone (67%). Minced carrot, cabbage, cauliflower, parsnip and other seasonal vegetables (33%).

Against the range

Fat, dry matter: 18.3%; Near the bottom of a 15.4% to 33.5% spread.
Energy: 94 kcal per 100g; The lightest tub; up to 123 on the Lamb.
Carbohydrate, dry matter: 17.5%; Highest by difference, with nothing starchy in the tub.

The leanest tub in the range, with the largest helpings and the most freezer space.

Every tub is 67% meat minced with its own bone and 33% minced vegetables, carrot, cabbage, cauliflower and parsnip named among them. Each recipe names a single animal, and the lean reading comes from the cuts chosen. Nothing is added anywhere, so the meat, bone and vegetables carry all the micronutrients.

Fat converts to between 15.4% and 33.5% of dry matter and energy runs from 94 to 123 kcal per 100g, against a raw typical of 155. Protein holds between 44.2% and 60.9%.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

94.2 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

11.7%

Fat

4.5%

Fibre

0.3%

Ash

3.8%

Moisture

75.4%

Dry weight

Protein

47.6%

Fat

18.3%

Fibre

1.2%

Ash

15.4%

Carbs

17.5%

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

67%

Veg

33%

Pricing & size