Raw Pet Foods Chicken Burgers review

These burgers reach our Outstanding band, the same mark the typical adult raw food makes, and raw is the strongest field anything we score can be measured against. It is earned by the meat share, by naming the organ meats and by having nothing on the list doing filler duty. A longer ingredients list gives a food more to be judged on; this one simply gives you less to argue with.

Ingredients, as declared: Chicken 78%, Carrots 7%, Ox Heart 4%, Butternut 3%, Green leaf 3% Ox liver 2%, Kidney 2%, Kelp, Flaxseed oil 1%

The first line is chicken at 78% and nothing else, with no unnamed animal category hedging it. Dog food uses more chicken than any other meat, and for good reasons. Chicken is palatable and it sits easily on most digestions. The one drawback is that sheer familiarity makes it the meat dogs most often become intolerant to. If yours has never had trouble with it, none of that applies.

Ox provides all three organs, with heart at 4% and both liver and kidney at 2%. For vitamin A, for copper and for the B group, no natural source beats liver. Heart is really a working muscle and not a true organ, which is why it behaves like meat on the analysis. Their presence does put beef on this label alongside the chicken.

The entire plant side is carrots at 7%, with butternut and green leaf at 3% each, and no cereal, potato or pulse sits behind them. Beta carotene and a little soluble fibre come from the carrot. At these inclusions the vegetables season a meat recipe and add no bulk to it.

Kelp and flaxseed oil at 1% close the list and carry the micronutrient load between them. The seaweed brings iodine and trace minerals, and the seed brings plant omega 3 fats. There is no synthetic vitamin and mineral premix, which is standard raw practice and leaves the organ meats to deliver the rest.

The declared analysis runs protein at 16.4% and fat at 15.5% as fed, with moisture at 64.2%. No fibre figure is printed, so the table stays as declared and is not converted. The 191 kcal per 100g figure is estimated off the analysis, never measured.

Burgers are formed at 100g, sold singly and in a 900g pack of nine.

Take a 15kg adult dog in steady condition, needing roughly 840 kcal a day on the standard maintenance sum (110 × bodyweight^0.75). Against this food's estimated energy that lands at about 440 grams, which is four to five burgers.