Rathlin Raw

Rathlin Raw Complete: Beef with Vegetables and Berries review

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

79.5/100Excellent

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

79.5/100Excellent

Protein and processingOutstanding

Nutritional balanceGood

TransparencyExcellent

ValueExcellent

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 beef69%No second meat beyond the bone.
Chicken bone10%Calcium, ground through the mince. Chicken on a beef label.
Seasonal vegetables and fruits10%
Ox kidney5%
Ox liver5%Where a raw recipe finds vitamin A and iron.
Islander Rathlin Kelp0.5%
Salmon oil0.5%Puts fish in the bowl.

Named ingredients

69% Irish Beef, 10% Chicken Bone, 10% Seasonal Vegetables and 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

Meat: Beef 69%, chicken bone only; The others add chicken meat or tripe.
Fat, dry matter: 42.9%; 32.0% on the tripe.
Ash, dry matter: 21.4%; Much the highest; around 6% on the others.

The most single-minded recipe here, and the richest.

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

166 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

11%

Fat

15%

Fibre

1.7%

Ash

7.5%

Moisture

65%

Dry weight

Protein

31.4%

Fat

42.9%

Fibre

4.9%

Ash

21.4%

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

89.4%

Veg

10.1%

Oils

0.5%

Pricing & size