Raaw

RaaW Adult Dog Food: Beef review

Name: RaaW Adult Dog Food: Beef
Brand: Raaw

91.4/100Outstanding

RawAdult

Flavour

Four raw recipes on one construction: a named animal with its bone and organs, then a short list of vegetables and botanicals. All four sit in our Outstanding band. Organ meats do the work a synthetic premix would do elsewhere, and none is declared.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Owners who want bone and organ meats doing the mineral work
Dogs kept off grain and starch. No label names a cereal or a pulse
A dog that suits fish, with a salmon led recipe in the line up
Rotation feeders, as only the animal changes
A mixed household, with every recipe listed from toy to giant

Worth watching

Fish runs right through: salmon oil on three labels and salmon leading the fourth
Chicken with bone at 33% in the Salmon recipe
Frozen packs need freezer room, a planned thaw and the usual hygiene round the bowl

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

How this scores

How we score

91.4/100Outstanding

Protein and processingOutstanding

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueOutstanding

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adult dogs of every size. Only the Salmon prints a calcium figure, so on the others the bone shows in the recipe and not in the analysis.

Food type

Raw

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Beef

The score, in context

Beef 91.4
Lamb 90.0
Salmon 89.6
Chicken 89.1

All four Outstanding. Typical raw food: Outstanding.

So close together that the animal decides it, with the Beef and the Lamb ahead by the slimmest of margins.

What's in it

British beef and bone62%Bone inside the meat share, as raw is meant to work.
British beef heart8%Lean muscle carrying taurine.
British beef kidney5%
British beef liver5%The richest natural source of vitamin A a raw recipe can hold.
Carrots, butternut squash, broccoliNo figures past the animal ingredients.
Spinach powder, blueberries
Sea kelp powder, chia seedsIodine from the kelp; omega 3 and soluble fibre from the chia.
Alfalfa powder, salmon oilAlfalfa, a green source of vitamin K, is on this label alone.

Named ingredients

British Beef and Bone (62%), British Beef Heart (8%), British Beef Kidney (5%), British Beef Liver (5%), Carrots, Butternut Squash, Broccoli, Spinach powder, Blueberries, Sea Kelp powder, Chia seeds, Alfalfa powder, Salmon oil.

Against the range

Organs: Heart 8%, kidney 5%, liver 5%; No other recipe names as many.
Protein and fat, dry matter: 39.7% and 39.1%; Protein runs to 54.3% on the Salmon.
Alfalfa: Yes; On no other label.

A balanced red meat mince, and the leader of the range on our scoring.

Three of the four recipes lead with an animal and its bone at between 62% and 70%, with heart and other organ meats declared behind it. A short plant list follows without figures: carrots, butternut squash, broccoli, spinach powder, blueberries, kelp and chia. No synthetic vitamin premix is declared on any label.

The Lamb is built differently, lamb trim at 70% with no bone or organ named. In dry matter, protein runs from 39.7% to 54.3% and fat from 26.8% to 46.3%. No label declares energy, so those figures are ours.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

179.7 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

13.8%

Fat

13.6%

Fibre

1.4%

Ash

1.5%

Moisture

65.2%

Dry weight

Protein

39.7%

Fat

39.1%

Fibre

Ash

4.3%

Carbs

12.9%

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%

Veg

18.3%

Oils

0.2%

Other

1.5%

Pricing & size

Price per kilo: £4.58 (RRP)
Pack: Pack Of 4x 1.2kg, Pack Of 6x 1.2Kg, Pack Of 12x 1.2kg, single pack also listed separately as **Dog Beef 1.2Kg** - https://raawpetfoods.com/products/dog-beef-1-2kg
A 15kg dog eats: 450 g a day
Cost per day, 15kg dog: £2.06

RaaW's own chart puts a 15 kg adult at 450 grams a day.

Budget end of the market for a raw food, and strong value for what is in the recipe.

Ingredients and nutrition are taken from manufacturer data. Retailer pricing is not yet live for this food.