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Naturaw Forage: Free Range Chicken review

Name: Naturaw Forage: Free Range Chicken
Brand: Naturaw

86.8/100Outstanding

RawAdult

Flavour

Raw feeding with the provenance written into every line, and four of the six recipes reach our Outstanding band, with the pork and the lamb a step behind in Excellent. On four labels the organ meat is weighed with unusual care, heart and liver down to the percentage. The range makes its balance from whole foods, with no premix at all.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Owners who read sourcing as closely as ingredients: free range, grass fed and organic named throughout
An exclusion plan hunting for an unfamiliar meat, with venison and pork on the menu
Rotation feeding across six recipes built the same way
Households avoiding synthetic supplements
A dog that gains weight easily. The Turkey and Rainbow Trout is the lightest

Worth watching

Oily fish and free range egg on all six labels
Blue mussel in the botanical blend, so shellfish is in every pack
Frozen 500g packs, so freezer room and a fridge defrost are part of the routine

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

How this scores

How we score

86.8/100Outstanding

Protein and processingOutstanding

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyGood

ValueOutstanding

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults of every size. Naturaw's guide is 375 grams a day for a 15kg dog, so check the freezer has room for a box before ordering.

Food type

Raw

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

Beef 88.0
Turkey 87.5
Free Range Chicken 86.8
Venison 86.2
Free Range Pork 79.5
Lamb 79.2

Six recipes across Outstanding and Excellent. Typical raw food: Outstanding.

The gaps between the six are small and come down to how much each label itemises; protein and processing and nutritional balance read Outstanding on all of them.

What's in it

Free range British chicken: carcass, thigh, heart, liver83.9% (34.3%, 28%, 15.8%, 5.7%)One bird taken four ways, each part weighed.
Whole seasonal oily fish6.6%No species named, so not for a fish-free plan.
Broccoli2.9%
Forage botanical blend: seaweed, wheatgrass, pumpkin and hemp seeds, blue mussel, cleavers, nettles2.1%Seaweed for iodine. Wheatgrass is a leaf, so no cereal or gluten. Blue mussel is the shellfish entry.
Whole blackberries1.9%
Free range British egg1.9%
Organic kale1%

No vitamin and mineral premix, by Naturaw's stated choice: the balance comes from the fish, egg, vegetables, seaweed and botanical blend.

No calcium figure is published. The bone named on the label is where the calcium sits.

Named ingredients

Free Range British Chicken 83.9% (Carcass 34.3%, Thigh 28%, Heart 15.8%, Liver 5.7%), Whole Seasonal Oily Fish 6.6%, Broccoli 2.9%, Forage Botanical Blend 2.1% (Hand Harvested Organic Scottish Seaweed, Wheatgrass, Pumpkin Seeds, Hemp Seeds, Scandinavian Blue Mussel - MSC, Cleavers, Nettles), Whole Blackberries 1.9%, Free Range British Egg 1.9%, Organic Kale 1%

Against the range

Protein, dry matter: 61.1%; Highest in the range; 46.7% on the pork.
Land animals: Chicken only; The rest pair two land animals.
Fat, dry matter: 27.1%; Among the leanest.

The leanest, most protein-dense bowl here, and the only one built on a single land animal.

Every recipe is built the same way: a lead animal, usually with its bone, organ meat named to the organ, then whole oily fish, broccoli, blackberries, kale, free range egg and the Forage botanical blend. The animal fraction runs from 84.5% to 93.9%. No cereal, legume or starch appears anywhere in the range.

There is no vitamin and mineral premix and no calcium figure on any recipe. Across the six, protein runs from 46.7% to 61.1% of dry matter and energy from 137 to 189 kcal per 100g.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

161 kcal/100g

Protein

18.2%

Fat

8.08%

Fibre

0.4%

Ash

2.5%

Moisture

70.2%

Dry weight

Protein

61.1%

Fat

27.1%

Fibre

1.3%

Ash

8.4%

Carbs

2.1%

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

92.1%

Veg

Other

1.9%

Pricing & size