Raw Pet Foods

Raw Pet Foods Complete: Duck review

Name: Raw Pet Foods Complete: Duck
Brand: Raw Pet Foods

83.7/100Outstanding

RawAdult

Flavour

Seven frozen raw minces built the same short way, and all seven reach our Outstanding band. A named meat leads, ox organ follows, and a small plant share closes each one. The catch is that the name on the front does not always settle which animals are inside.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Owners who rotate: beef, chicken, duck, lamb and turkey across the line
A dog kept to one animal. Beef & Tripe stays bovine and Lamb & Tripe stays ovine
Dogs that must have no starch, since no label carries a cereal, potato or pulse
A small dog and a large one fed from the same freezer, the guide running from toy to giant
Fussy eaters, who tend to find unwashed tripe hard to refuse

Worth watching

Chicken in the Beef mince and ox organ in the poultry ones
No calcium figure printed on any label, a question for the maker if it matters to your dog
Freezer room and kitchen hygiene: defrost overnight in the fridge, then wash bowls and surfaces properly

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

How this scores

How we score

83.7/100Outstanding

Protein and processingOutstanding

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyGood

ValueOutstanding

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults of every size. The maker's table puts a 15 kg adult at 300 to 450 grams a day, so check the individual label against your dog's no-go list before filling a freezer drawer.

Food type

Raw

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Duck

The score, in context

Chicken 90.3
Beef 90.0
Turkey 88.9
Chicken 87.7
Beef 87.3
Duck 83.7
Lamb 81.8

All seven Outstanding. Typical raw food: Outstanding.

All seven sit close together, so choose on the animal and the richness and not on the order they finish in.

What's in it

DuckThe only animal named.
Liver
OffalUnnamed, so ask the maker what it is before an exclusion trial.
Kidney
Carrots, butternut squash, broccoli
Kelp, flax seed oil

No percentages anywhere on this label, and no fibre figure declared.

Named ingredients

Duck, Liver, Offal, Kidney, Carrots, Butternut Squash, Broccoli, kelp, Flax seed oil.

Against the range

Percentages: None printed; Most of the line prints one against every entry.
Animals named: Duck only; Most others add ox organ.
Transparency: Good; Outstanding on four of the seven.

Interesting for a dog meeting a new protein, once the offal question is answered.

Every mince follows one pattern: a named meat well out in front, then ox heart, liver and kidney, then carrots, butternut and green leaf, with kelp and flaxseed oil at 1% to finish. No cereal, potato or pulse appears anywhere, and organ meat does the work of a vitamin premix.

Only the Beef itemises bone, at 10%, and no label prints a calcium figure. Protein converts to between 37.3% and 45.8% of dry matter and fat to between 39.8% and 45.8%. Tripe turns up in three recipes.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

190.9 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

16.4%

Fat

15.5%

Ash

2.5%

Moisture

64.2%

Dry weight

Protein

45.8%

Fat

43.3%

Ash

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

89.8%

Veg

9.6%

Oils

0.6%

Pricing & size