Raw Made Simple Puppy Complete Raw: Pork & Lamb review

All three tubs land in our Outstanding band, and so does the typical puppy raw food, which tells you how demanding this corner of the market has become. The achievement here is holding that line across a beef, a pork and a poultry recipe, with no single tub pulling ahead of the others. They finish so close together that your puppy's taste and tolerance make better guides than the ranking does.

Ingredients, as declared: Pork Meat (42%) Lamb Tripe (20%), Lamb with Bone (20%), Pork Liver (5%), Pork Kidney (3%), Carrot, Green Vegetables, Blueberry, Kelp & Salmon Oil.

The arithmetic repeats in every tub. Animal ingredients account for 90% of the recipe. That 90% is muscle meat and a bone-in cut, with green tripe and a small organ share behind them. The remaining tenth is carrot, green vegetables and blueberry with salmon oil and kelp at the end. Every animal entry carries a printed percentage, which is more than many raw labels manage.

Calcium arrives from ground bone, not from a mineral bag: chicken with bone in one recipe, lamb with bone in another, turkey with bone in the third. That is exactly how a raw recipe is meant to work. It does mean, though, that no calcium percentage is printed for you to check. For most puppies that is a non-issue, and for a large breed youngster it is the one number worth requesting from the maker.

Green tripe at 20% is the quiet star of all three lists. Raw feeders reach for it precisely because the stomach goes in uncleaned and unbleached. Liver at 5% with kidney at 3% brings the concentrated micronutrition that organ meats are prized for. Between them they do the job a synthetic premix would otherwise be brought in to cover.

The plant side is deliberately slight. Beta carotene and gentle fibre come from the carrot. Blueberry adds antioxidants. Green vegetables is the one broad heading on the label, a term that leaves the exact mix to the kitchen. Salmon oil covers the long chain omega 3 fats and kelp covers the iodine. Between them that is the entire supplementation.

The analyses read as meat-led raw should. Carbohydrate estimates at zero in the beef and pork tubs and at 3.3% of dry matter in the turkey. Fat swings widely, from 45.7% of dry matter in the Beef & Chicken down to 25.8% in the Turkey. A puppy on the richest tub will eat noticeably smaller portions than the same puppy on the leanest.

Pork meat at 42% with lamb tripe and lamb with bone at 20% apiece, then pork liver at 5% and pork kidney at 3%. This is the only tub without a bird or a bovine anywhere on the list, and the lightest at 118 kcal per 100g. Protein converts to 52.0% of dry matter and ash to 16.7%, the strongest bone signal in the range.

All three tubs are £5.50 a kilo, and each is sold in a single 500g size.

Raw Made Simple guides by proportion of bodyweight and prints no gram table. Feed 8 to 10% a day between two and four months, 6 to 7% from four to six months, then 4 to 5% from six to twelve months. The share shrinks as the puppy grows even though the weight of food in the bowl keeps going up.