Vale Pet Foods

Vale Pet Foods Vale RAW Purely Minces: Duck review

Name: Vale Pet Foods Vale RAW Purely Minces: Duck
Brand: Vale Pet Foods

78.1/100Excellent

RawAdult

Flavour

Four Outstanding minces and an Excellent duck, each one a single animal ground with its own bone and offal and nothing else in the tub. These are among the shortest labels you will read anywhere. The choice comes down to the animal and how rich a bowl your dog wants.

Where to buy: coming soon

Live retailer links are coming soon. Once we have them from UK retailers, where to buy and the best price will appear here.

Our view

Likely to suit

Strict exclusion plans: one named species per tub, no oils or extras
Owners who want percentages. Meat, bone and offal are declared at 80%, 10% and 10%
A first try of an unfamiliar protein, with venison alongside the everyday four
Rotation feeding, as only the animal changes from tub to tub
Single-dog homes; every mince comes in a 1kg tub

Worth watching

Freezer space, a fridge thaw and the usual raw hygiene over bowls, boards and hands
No vitamin or mineral panel printed anywhere, so the micronutrition rests on the offal and bone
Big swings in richness, so a move from the turkey to the beef means rethinking the portion

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

How this scores

How we score

78.1/100Excellent

Protein and processingOutstanding

Nutritional balanceAverage

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueExcellent

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adult dogs. Check which mince you are moving to before you portion it, since the beef runs more than twice as rich as the turkey.

Food type

Raw

Life stage

Adult

Main protein

Duck

The score, in context

Beef 88.3
Venison 84.8
Chicken 84.5
Turkey 83.3
Duck 78.1

Five recipes across Outstanding and Excellent. Typical raw food: Outstanding.

Little separates the five but the animal, and the duck sits a step behind mainly because its panel reads oddly.

What's in it

Duck80%
Duck bone10%
Duck offal10%Not broken down further.

The panel declares 25.0% moisture, far drier than a raw mince usually reads, and the carbohydrate estimate that follows has no ingredient to come from. Read this tub by its ingredients.

Named ingredients

80% Duck, 10% Duck Bone, 10% Duck Offal

Against the range

Moisture: 25.0%, declared; Undeclared on the other four.
Carbohydrate, estimated: 36.0%; Zero on the rest, as nothing on any label makes it.
Band: Excellent; Outstanding on the other four.

On the label itself it is the same recipe as its four siblings.

Every tub is built the same way in three entries: 80% meat, 10% bone and 10% offal, all from one named animal. There is no vegetable, no added oil and no vitamin or mineral premix, so ground bone carries the calcium and the offal carries much of the micronutrition.

What moves between the five is the animal and how rich it runs. Fat as fed goes from 5.2% on the turkey to 24.1% on the beef, and moisture is declared only on the duck, so the other four convert on the 69.6% we assume for raw.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

328.5 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

19%

Fat

16%

Fibre

Ash

Moisture

25%

Dry weight

Protein

25.3%

Fat

21.3%

Fibre

1.3%

Ash

Carbs

48.1%

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