Paleo Ridge

Paleo Ridge Paleo Plus: Pork & Apple review

Name: Paleo Ridge Paleo Plus: Pork & Apple
Brand: Paleo Ridge

85.5/100Outstanding

RawPuppyAdult

Flavour

Raw feeding with the animal share pushed as far up the label as it will go, and organ meat treated seriously. Every recipe reaches our Outstanding band, with all four pillars Outstanding. The one non-meat entry is a named 5% supplement mix, and nothing on these labels needs interpreting.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Owners who want to feed close to what a dog would actually catch
Organ meat beyond token liver: spleen, lung, gizzards and heart all appear
Joint ingredients from food, with green-lipped mussel in every recipe
One animal on the meat side, in the lamb, pork, chicken and duck recipes
A dog that does well on oily fish, with sardines leading the Surf and Turf
Multi-dog homes, with toy to giant covered and most recipes listed from puppy to old age

Worth watching

Raw routine: keep packs frozen, defrost a day at a time and wash up properly
Seaweed and green-lipped mussel in all six, so none suits a dog kept off fish and shellfish
Fat and calcium swing widely between recipes, so check both before switching or feeding a large breed puppy

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

How this scores

How we score

85.5/100Outstanding

Protein and processingOutstanding

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueOutstanding

The details

Dog fit

Most recipes are listed for puppies, adults and seniors of every size; the Totally Chicken is for adults and seniors. For a growing large breed pup, check that recipe's calcium before ordering.

Food type

Raw

Life stage

Puppy, Adult, Senior

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Pork

The score, in context

Totally Duck 87.2
Surf 87.1
Totally Chicken 85.8
Pork 85.5
Lamb 85.3
Turkey 81.8

All six Outstanding. Typical raw food: Outstanding.

Matching raw's own high-water mark on all six recipes is a strong result in the hardest category to stand out in; choose between them on fat, energy and animal.

What's in it

Pork tongue39%
Pork heart22%
Pork ribs21%The bone share.
Pork lung, pork liver5% each
Berry Good Supplement Mix: kale, broccoli, blueberries, blackberries, seaweed, green-lipped mussel, organic hemp seed powder5%
Pork kidney2%
Apple1%A little sweetness.

Calcium converts to under 1% of dry matter here. Check it first for a large breed puppy still growing.

Named ingredients

39% Pork Tongue, 22% Pork Heart, 21% Pork Ribs, 5% Pork Lung, 5% Pork Liver, 5% Berry Good Supplement Mix (inc. Kale, Broccoli, Blueberries, Blackberries, Seaweed, Green Lipped Mussel, Organic Hemp Seed Powder), 2% Pork Kidney, 1% Apple

Against the range

Animals: Pork only; Novel for plenty of dogs.
Protein, dry matter: 73.1%; Highest in the range.
Calcium, dry matter: 0.77%; Up to 2.48% on the Totally Chicken.

The fullest single-animal offal spread here, from a meat many dogs have never had.

Between 94% and 95% of every recipe is meat, bone and organ from named animals, each entry with its percentage. The offal runs several entries deep: heart, lung, spleen, gizzards and kidney as well as liver. The last 5% is the Berry Good Supplement Mix on all six, and its seaweed and green-lipped mussel mean none of them is free of fish or shellfish.

What varies is fat, energy and bone. Fat converts to between 16.3% and 54.3% of dry matter, and calcium runs from 0.74% on the soft-tissue recipes to 2.48% on the bone-in chicken. There is no grain or potato anywhere.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

133 kcal/100g

Protein

19%

Fat

Fibre

0.2%

Ash

0.8%

Moisture

74%

Dry weight

Protein

73.1%

Fat

23.1%

Fibre

0.8%

Ash

3.1%

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

94%

Veg

Other

Pricing & size