Vale Pet Foods

Vale Pet Foods Vale RAW Beef Tripe Minces: Chicken review

Name: Vale Pet Foods Vale RAW Beef Tripe Minces: Chicken
Brand: Vale Pet Foods

86.3/100Outstanding

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Flavour

A raw range built entirely around tripe, at 70% of every mince, and all four finish Outstanding. The differences come from the partner animal: poultry in even tenths of meat, bone and offal, or salmon and wild rabbit supplied whole. There is no premix, by design.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Raw feeders who rate tripe
Dogs that pick at plainer minces. Few bowls smell as tempting
Rotating proteins on the same base: chicken, turkey, salmon, wild rabbit
Every life stage and size, as all four list puppy, adult and senior
Meal-by-meal feeding from 1kg packs

Worth watching

Tripe puts beef in all four, so nothing here for a dog kept off beef
The rabbit is gutted, so no organ meats in that one
Freezer storage, fridge thawing and clean hands after every meal

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

How this scores

How we score

86.3/100Outstanding

Protein and processingOutstanding

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyExcellent

ValueOutstanding

The details

Dog fit

Listed for puppies, adults and seniors of every size. A 15kg adult works through about 370 to 375 grams a day, so plan the freezer space before ordering.

Food type

Raw

Life stage

Puppy, Adult, Senior

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Beef

The score, in context

Salmon 87.2
Chicken 86.3
Turkey 86.2
Wild Rabbit 85.7

All four Outstanding. Typical raw food: Outstanding.

All four sit level with an exceptionally strong raw field, the wild rabbit and the salmon edging ahead of the poultry pair.

What's in it

Beef tripe70%Stomach from a grazing animal. At this share it is the food.
Chicken10%
Chicken bone10%The calcium source, with no added minerals.
Chicken offal10%Organs carry much of a carcass's micronutrition.

Named ingredients

70% Beef Tripe, 10% Chicken, 10% Chicken Bone, 10% Chicken Offal

Against the range

Partner animal: Chicken: meat, bone, offal at 10% each; Turkey the same; salmon and rabbit come whole.
Ash, dry matter: 9.5%; 2.6% on the salmon, 3.0% on the rabbit.
Protein, dry matter: 60.5%; The same on the turkey, 47.4% on the other two.

The tidiest construction of the four, with the bone showing clearly in the ash.

Every mince is 70% beef tripe with a second animal making up the last 30%. Chicken and turkey arrive as three even tenths of meat, bone and offal; salmon and wild rabbit come whole, bone included, and the rabbit is gutted.

Nothing on any of the four labels is anything other than animal, and there is no additives panel or premix. Bone carries the calcium, and the salmon and rabbit read low on ash for recipes that declare it.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

184.2 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

18.4%

Fat

14.1%

Fibre

0.4%

Ash

2.9%

Dry weight

Protein

60.5%

Fat

46.4%

Fibre

1.3%

Ash

9.5%

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

100%

Pricing & size