Rathlin Raw

Rathlin Raw Complete: Beef and Chicken with Vegetables and Berries review

Name: Rathlin Raw Complete: Beef and Chicken with Vegetables and Berries
Brand: Rathlin Raw

86/100Outstanding

RawAdultSenior

Flavour

Three frozen beef minces on one blueprint, two in our Outstanding band and the plain beef a step behind in Excellent. Ground bone and organ meat carry the minerals here, with no premix at all. One version adds chicken meat, one swaps a third of the beef for tripe.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Dogs settled on red meat, since beef leads every recipe
Older dogs as much as adults: the whole range is listed for seniors
Owners who want bone and organs doing the work of a premix
A fussy eater. The tripe version is the one to reach for
Rotating within beef without changing the animal your dog knows

Worth watching

Chicken bone in every recipe, so none of them is beef alone
Salmon oil on all three lists
Frozen chubs need freezer room, a fridge thaw and the usual clean-up round the bowl

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

How this scores

How we score

86/100Outstanding

Protein and processingOutstanding

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyExcellent

ValueOutstanding

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults and seniors from toy to giant. No calcium figure is printed, so if that number matters to you, ask Rathlin Raw for it before ordering.

Food type

Raw

Life stage

Adult, Senior

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Beef

The score, in context

Beef 86.0
Beef 84.9
Beef 79.5

Three recipes across Outstanding and Excellent. Typical raw food: Outstanding.

The two mixed minces sit in the strongest company any format keeps on our scoring, and the beef on its own is a step behind, so choose on the animal and the richness.

What's in it

Irish beef49%
Chicken, including bone30%10% of the food is bone, the calcium source.
Vegetables and fruits: carrots, spinach, broccoli, blueberries, raspberries10%The mix shifts with the season, and the maker says so.
Ox kidney5%Selenium and more of the B group.
Ox liver5%Vitamin A and iron in quantity.
Islander Rathlin Kelp0.5%Iodine and trace minerals.
Salmon oil0.5%Long-chain omega 3 for older joints and coats.

The only recipe with chicken meat as well as chicken bone, so read it as a two-animal mince.

Named ingredients

49% Irish Beef, 30% Chicken (10% Bone), 10% Vegetables & Fruits (carrots, spinach, broccoli, blueberries and raspberries - the combinations vary in line with seasonal availability), 5% Ox Kidney, 5% Ox Liver, 0.5% Islander Rathlin Kelp and 0.5% Salmon Oil.

Against the range

Second meat: Chicken 30%; Tripe in one, none in the beef.
Protein and fat, dry matter: 43.3% each; Protein 52.0% on the tripe, 31.4% on the beef.
Energy: About 162.1 kcal per 100g; Between the tripe and the beef.

The balanced middle of the range, for a dog happy on poultry as well as beef.

One blueprint filled three ways. Beef leads, chicken bone at 10% supplies the calcium, and kidney and liver take 5% each. A tenth of each mince is seasonal vegetables and fruit (carrots, spinach, broccoli, blueberries, raspberries), with kelp and salmon oil closing at 0.5% apiece.

No cereal, no pulse and no synthetic premix on any label: the organs and bone do the work a premix would. The analyses differ more than the lists suggest, with protein from 31.4% to 52.0% of dry matter and moisture from 65.0% to 75.0%.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

162.1 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

13%

Fat

13%

Fibre

0.5%

Ash

1.77%

Moisture

70%

Dry weight

Protein

43.3%

Fat

43.3%

Fibre

1.7%

Ash

5.9%

Carbs

5.8%

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

89.4%

Veg

10.1%

Oils

0.5%

Pricing & size