Raaw

RaaW Adult Dog Food: Lamb review

Name: RaaW Adult Dog Food: Lamb
Brand: Raaw

90/100Outstanding

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

90/100Outstanding

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

Lamb

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

Lamb trim70%Nothing else from the animal named: no bone, no organ.
Spinach powder
Salmon oilFish in a lamb recipe.
Sea kelp powder, cranberry powder
Brewer's yeastB vitamins and a complete amino acid profile.
Dandelion

No bone or organ meat declared, so this reads as a rich lamb mince. Useful in a rotation; worth knowing if it is the only thing in the freezer.

Named ingredients

Lamb Trim (70%), Spinach powder, Salmon oil, Sea Kelp powder, Cranberry powder, Brewer's Yeast, Dandelion.

Against the range

Bone and organs: None declared; All three others are bone-in with heart.
Fat, dry matter: 46.3%; Richest; the others 26.8% to 39.1%.
Plants: A botanical tail only; Carrots, squash and broccoli on the rest.

The richest recipe and the one not built on the whole animal.

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

168.1 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

12.4%

Fat

14.3%

Fibre

1.7%

Ash

1.6%

Moisture

69.1%

Dry weight

Protein

40.1%

Fat

46.3%

Fibre

5.5%

Ash

5.2%

Carbs

2.9%

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

70%

Veg

18.8%

Oils

6.6%

Other

4.6%

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 Lamb 1.2Kg** - https://raawpetfoods.com/products/dog-lamb-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.