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ProDog Smart Chubs: Beef & Lamb review

Name: ProDog Smart Chubs: Beef & Lamb
Brand: Prodog

88.2/100Outstanding

RawAdult

Flavour

Raw feeding stripped back to the animal: minced meat, ground bone and offal from named sources, in 450g chubs. All five flavours sit in our Outstanding band. What moves between them is the pairing of animals and how rich the bowl gets.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Raw feeders who want the bowl animal from top to bottom
Dogs that need grain and starch off the menu; no label holds a cereal or a vegetable
Matching the bowl to the workload, from lean poultry to properly hearty red meat
Adults of every build, toy to giant

Worth watching

Raw hygiene applies: thaw in the fridge, wipe bowls and surfaces, wash hands after every meal
At least two animals in every flavour, so none suits a single-protein plan
Richness moves a long way between flavours, so rethink portions on a swap

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

How this scores

How we score

88.2/100Outstanding

Protein and processingOutstanding

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueOutstanding

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults of every size, at roughly 370 grams a day for a 15kg dog. Read each list flavour by flavour if your dog is on an exclusion plan.

Food type

Raw

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Beef

The score, in context

Beef 88.2
Pork 87.8
Three Bird Mince 85.9
Chicken 85.3
Chicken 85.0

All five Outstanding. Typical raw food: Outstanding.

All five score level with one another, so pick by protein and richness and leave the scores out of it.

What's in it

British lamb meat and ground bone30%The bone carries the calcium.
British beef lung29%
British beef tripe25%
Beef liver, kidney, trachea5.5%, 5%, 5%Organs, where much of an animal's micronutrition lives.
Boost0.5%ProDog's own supplement; its individual declarations are not printed.

Named ingredients

30% British Lamb Meat and Ground Bone, 29% British Beef Lung, 25% British Beef Tripe, 5.5% Beef Liver (Offal), 5% Beef Kidney (Offal), 5% Beef Trachea (Offal), 0.5% Boost

Against the range

Fat, dry matter: 42.5%; Richest; the others run 27.3% to 37.6%.
Energy: 181 kcal per 100g; Level with the Pork & Duck; the chicken and haddock is 127.
Offal: Lung, tripe, liver, kidney, trachea; The widest spread of organs.

The richest chub of the five, for a dog with real work to do.

Every chub is minced meat and ground bone first, offal where the flavour carries it, and 0.5% of ProDog's own Boost supplement last. Nothing else: no vegetables, no cereal, a percentage beside every entry. Ground bone does the calcium work, and liver and kidney turn up in most flavours.

No chub keeps to one animal. Protein converts to between 39.9% and 67.4% of dry matter and fat to between 27.3% and 42.5%, while carbohydrate never passes 6.7%. Boost's own vitamin and mineral declarations are not printed.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

181.3 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

13.8%

Fat

14.7%

Fibre

1.4%

Ash

2.4%

Moisture

65.4%

Dry weight

Protein

39.9%

Fat

42.5%

Fibre

Ash

6.9%

Carbs

6.7%

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

99.5%

Other

0.5%

Pricing & size