Paleo Ridge

Paleo Ridge Essentials: Chicken Dinner review

Name: Paleo Ridge Essentials: Chicken Dinner
Brand: Paleo Ridge

83.3/100Outstanding

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Flavour

Paleo Ridge's everyday raw range, every recipe in our Outstanding band. What sets it apart is the vegetable share: almost a fifth of each pack, named down to the brassica. Calcium and energy are declared outright on all six.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Raw feeders who want vegetables in the bowl without chopping anything
Rotating proteins, as only the meat moves between recipes
Dogs kept off chicken: the duck, pork and turkey leave it out
Homes with a puppy, an adult and a senior, all listed
Any build, toy to giant

Worth watching

Frozen packs, so freezer room, a fridge thaw and raw-feeding hygiene
At least two animals in every recipe, beef organs even under a poultry name
Calcium up to 2.68% of dry matter, worth raising with your vet for a large or giant breed puppy

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

How this scores

How we score

83.3/100Outstanding

Protein and processingOutstanding

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueOutstanding

The details

Dog fit

Listed for puppies, adults and seniors of every size. A 15kg adult eats 375 grams a day on the maker's chart; check the calcium on your chosen recipe before growing a big pup on it.

Food type

Raw

Life stage

Puppy, Adult, Senior

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

Duck Dinner 88.5
Lamb Dinner 87.5
Pork Dinner 86.7
Beef Dinner 86.3
Turkey Dinner 86.3
Chicken Dinner 83.3

All six Outstanding. Typical raw food: Outstanding.

So little separates the six that your dog's own preferences are a better guide than any ranking.

What's in it

Chicken meat with bone40%
Chicken gizzards, chicken hearts23%
Seasonal veg: broccoli, carrot, kale, parsnips, cauliflower or cabbage19.5%Shifts through the year; the total does not.
Chicken offals12%
Beef kidney5%The only entry from another animal.
Extra virgin olive oil0.5%

Calcium converts to 2.48% of dry matter; listed for puppies, so a large or giant breed pup's plan needs a look at that figure.

Named ingredients

40% Chicken Meat with Bone, 23% Chicken Gizzards/Chicken Hearts, 19.5% Seasonal Veg (inc. Broccoli, Carrot, Kale, Parsnips, Cauliflower or Cabbage), 12% Chicken Offals, 5% Beef Kidney, 0.5% Extra Virgin Olive Oil

Against the range

Poultry: Chicken in three entries; Most others lean on tripe.
Fat, dry matter: 37.0%; 21.1% on the turkey to 51.9% on the duck.
Tripe: None; On four of the six.

The most poultry-heavy of the six, feeding in middling portions.

All six follow one piece of arithmetic: 80% named animal, 19.5% seasonal vegetables and 0.5% extra virgin olive oil, each entry with a percentage. The animal share always holds a bone-in cut for calcium and some kidney or liver, and tripe leads or sits second in four of the six. There is no vitamin or mineral premix, so the organs and vegetables carry the micronutrition.

What moves is the meat and the richness: fat runs from 21.1% to 51.9% of dry matter, protein from 44.4% to 68.4%, and calcium is declared on every recipe at 1.3% to 2.68%.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

154 kcal/100g

Protein

15%

Fat

10%

Fibre

0.5%

Ash

1.33%

Moisture

73%

Dry weight

Protein

55.6%

Fat

37%

Fibre

1.9%

Ash

4.9%

Carbs

0.6%

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

80%

Oils

0.5%

Other

19.5%

Pricing & size