Vale Pet Foods

Vale Pet Foods Vale RAW Minces With Veg: Beef & Veg review

Name: Vale Pet Foods Vale RAW Minces With Veg: Beef & Veg
Brand: Vale Pet Foods

87.1/100Outstanding

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Flavour

Five raw minces, all in our Outstanding band, and each one keeps to a single animal from meat through bone to offal. That is rare in raw, and it holds up here because nothing from another species goes in. Beef, chicken, lamb, turkey and venison each get their own mince.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Dogs on an exclusion diet. The only animal in each recipe is the one on the front
Vegetables in a raw bowl without a long list of extras
Dogs reacting to the everyday meats, with venison as a protein most have never met
Feeding from puppyhood to old age, as all five are listed for every life stage
Raw feeders who want organ meats declared: kidney and liver are a tenth of every recipe

Worth watching

The beef's declared fat reads oddly high against the rest of its panel, so portion that one by eye and condition
No vitamin or mineral panel. Bone, offal and sea kelp are expected to cover it
Freezer room, a night thawing in the fridge, and the usual hygiene with bowls, boards and hands

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

How this scores

How we score

87.1/100Outstanding

Protein and processingOutstanding

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyExcellent

ValueOutstanding

The details

Dog fit

Listed for puppies, adults and seniors of every size. Energy shifts a long way between animals, so re-weigh the portion whenever you rotate.

Food type

Raw

Life stage

Puppy, Adult, Senior

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Beef

The score, in context

Beef 87.1
Turkey 85.3
Lamb 84.1
Venison 84.0
Chicken 83.3

All five Outstanding. Typical raw food: Outstanding.

Holding the top band five times over, with a different animal each time, is the achievement here; the five sit close enough that your dog's preferred animal should decide.

What's in it

Beef, including beef bone70%Bone is a tenth of the recipe and the only calcium source, as no mineral panel is printed.
Beef offal: kidney, liver10%From the same animal.
Broccoli, carrotPart of the 20% vegetable share; the split is not published.
Turmeric
Sea kelpThe iodine source a no-premix recipe needs.

The declared fat converts to 79.3% of dry matter, which cannot sit beside protein at 60.5%. Portion by your dog's condition.

Named ingredients

70% Beef (inc 10% Beef Bone), 10% Beef Offal (Kidney, Liver), 20% Vegetables (Broccoli, Carrot, Turmeric & Sea Kelp)

Against the range

Fat, dry matter: 79.3% (a label quirk); 22.4% to 46.4% on the others
Energy: 269 kcal per 100g, estimated; 133 to 184 kcal on the rest
Ash, dry matter: 3.0%; Up to 14.8% on the chicken

The pick of the family on our scoring, though its fat figure is one to ignore.

Every mince follows the same arithmetic: 70% named meat with a tenth of the recipe as that animal's bone, 10% kidney and liver from the same animal, and 20% broccoli, carrot, turmeric and sea kelp. Nothing else goes in, so there is no oil from another species, no premix and no unnamed fat.

What moves is the analysis. Ash runs from 3.0% of dry matter on the beef to 14.8% on the chicken. Estimated energy runs from 133 kcal per 100g on the venison to 269 kcal on the beef, so a swap means a new portion.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

269.2 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

18.4%

Fat

24.1%

Fibre

0.1%

Ash

0.9%

Dry weight

Protein

60.5%

Fat

79.3%

Fibre

0.3%

Ash

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

80%

Veg

20%

Pricing & size