Paleo Ridge

Paleo Ridge Classic: Duck review

Name: Paleo Ridge Classic: Duck
Brand: Paleo Ridge

87/100Outstanding

RawPuppyAdult

Flavour

Raw feeding at its plainest, sixteen recipes long, and every one in our Outstanding band. Each label is named meat, ground bone and organs with a percentage beside every entry, and that is the whole list. Which animals your dog does well on is what decides between them.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Rotation feeders. Every recipe follows the same construction and only the animals change
Nothing botanical in the bowl: no vegetable, fruit or cereal on any label
Keeping to one animal, on the chicken, duck, turkey or lamb breast recipes
Dogs who have tried everything ordinary. Kangaroo and wild venison are on the menu
A pup, an adult and an older dog fed together. Every stage and size is listed

Worth watching

Freezer space, a night's thaw in the fridge, and washing hands, boards and bowls after
Fat runs from 22.2% to 48.5% of dry matter. A change of recipe can mean a change of portion
Beef liver and kidney turn up under other headline animals. Check each list when excluding a meat

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

How this scores

How we score

87/100Outstanding

Protein and processingOutstanding

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueOutstanding

The details

Dog fit

Every recipe is listed for puppies, adults and seniors of all sizes. Before ordering, read the full list if you are excluding a meat, as beef organs sit behind several other animals.

Food type

Raw

Life stage

Puppy, Adult, Senior

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Duck

The score, in context

Lamb Tripe 87.7
Beef Tripe 87.6
Beef Tripe 87.2
Duck 87.0
Lamb Tripe 86.8
Beef 86.7
Lamb Tripe 86.4
Beef Tripe 86.2
Lamb Breast 86.2
Venison 86.2
Beef Heart 86.1
Chicken 86.1
Pork 86.0
Lamb Tripe 85.5
Turkey 85.3
Wild Venison 85.0

All 16 Outstanding. Typical raw food: Outstanding.

The sixteen scores sit so close that nothing meaningful separates them, so let the animals your dog does well on decide.

What's in it

Duck hearts40%The lead ingredient, a working muscle.
Duck meat with bone30%The bone-in cut that supplies the calcium.
Duck gizzards25%
Duck liver5%The only organ on the label in the offal sense.

Named ingredients

40% Duck Hearts, 30% Duck Meat with Bone, 25% Duck Gizzards, 5% Duck Liver

Against the range

Fat, dry matter: 48.5%; Richest in the range
Energy: 192 kcal per 100g; The top of the range

A steady introduction is sensible.

Every recipe is minced meat, ground bone and organs from named animals, each with a percentage, and nothing else. No vegetables, cereals or supplement blend appear on any label. Tripe leads on about half the range with a bone-in cut at 30% behind it, and liver and kidney at 5% each close most labels. With no premix anywhere, the organs carry the vitamins and minerals.

Protein converts to between 45.5% and 75.6% of dry matter and carbohydrate is at or near zero throughout. Fat runs from 22.2% to 48.5% and energy from 88.5 to 192 kcal per 100g, so portions move a lot between recipes.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

192 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

15%

Fat

16%

Fibre

Ash

Moisture

67%

Dry weight

Protein

45.5%

Fat

48.5%

Fibre

Ash

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