Stella & Chewy's Freeze Dried Raw Stella's Super Beef Meal Mixers Grain Free Dog Food Topper

Stella & Chewy's Stella's Super Beef Meal Mixers

Here is the thing worth knowing before you buy both bags: these Meal Mixers and Stella's Super Beef Dinner Patties are the same recipe.

Same food, two shapes

We checked both of Stella's own product pages side by side rather than assuming it. The ingredient list is identical in the same order. The guaranteed analysis matches on every value, 41% protein and 35% fat. Calorie density is 4,940 kcal/kg in both.

So if you're feeding the patties and wondering whether the Mixers are a lighter or different product, they aren't. What changes is the shape of the pieces, the feeding chart, and how you're meant to use it... not the food. Nobody needs both bags for nutritional reasons. Pick the format that fits how you actually feed.

One real difference in how Stella labels them: the patties carry Stella's "100% complete and balanced" description and the Meal Mixers don't. The Mixers feeding chart still offers a full-meal column alongside the topper column, which we've printed below. We're reporting exactly that and going no further, because Stella hasn't.

Read the first six ingredients

Beef, beef liver, beef kidney, beef heart, beef tripe, beef bone. Six components before anything else appears, and tripe is the one worth noticing... it turns up in almost nothing else on the shelf. Stella puts the recipe at 95% grass-fed beef, nutrient-rich organs and bone.

That's a longer organ list than Stella's own chicken recipe, which runs liver and gizzard. If organ content is why you buy raw, this is the recipe in the line that delivers most of it.

After the meat: pumpkin seed, then organic cranberries, spinach, broccoli, beets, carrots, squash and blueberries. Fenugreek seed, kelp, a full vitamin and mineral package, added taurine.

Pea-free, lentil-free and potato-free, as published for this recipe. Not true of everything Stella & Chewy's makes, so check each item rather than the brand.

The probiotics, named

Four fermentation products in the list: Pediococcus acidilactici, Lactobacillus acidophilus, Bifidobacterium longum and Bacillus coagulans. Named because the organisms are checkable and "contains probiotics" isn't.

How much is a quarter cup, really

A quarter cup of this is 56 calories. That sounds small and it isn't, because the Meal Mixers line is not consistent from flavor to flavor:

The same quarter-cup scoop carries 50 calories of chicken or 62 of Surf 'N Turf. That's a 24% spread across products a shopper picks between as if they were flavors.

For a 15 lb dog getting a daily topper, swapping flavors without changing the scoop quietly changes their intake. If you top a bowl every day, take the topper's calories off the dinner underneath it, and recheck when you change flavors.

Full ingredient list

Beef, Beef Liver, Beef Kidney, Beef Heart, Beef Tripe, Beef Bone, Pumpkin Seed, Organic Cranberries, Organic Spinach, Organic Broccoli, Organic Beets, Organic Carrots, Organic Squash, Organic Blueberries, Fenugreek Seed, Potassium Chloride, Dried Kelp, Sodium Phosphate, Mixed Tocopherols (preservative), Choline Chloride, Dried Pediococcus Acidilactici fermentation product, Dried Lactobacillus Acidophilus fermentation product, Dried Bifidobacterium Longum fermentation product, Dried Bacillus Coagulans fermentation product, Zinc Proteinate, Iron Proteinate, Taurine, Calcium Carbonate, Vitamin E Supplement, Thiamine Mononitrate, Copper Proteinate, Manganese Proteinate, Sodium Selenite, Niacin Supplement, D-calcium Pantothenate, Riboflavin Supplement, Vitamin A Supplement, Vitamin D3 Supplement, Vitamin B12 Supplement, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Folic Acid.

Guaranteed analysis

• Crude Protein (min) ... 41%
• Crude Fat (min) ... 35%
• Crude Fiber (max) ... 5%
• Moisture (max) ... 5%

Calorie content

56 kcal per quarter cup ... 4,940 kcal/kg

Feeding guidelines

Stella publishes two charts for this product. Cups below mean a level standard 8-fluid-ounce dry measuring cup.

As a mixer or topper, on top of your dog's regular food:

As a complete meal:

Stella notes puppies may need up to twice the adult amount, and to consult a veterinarian for pregnant and nursing dogs. Split the daily amount across two meals, and treat any chart as a starting point... check your dog's body condition after two or three weeks and adjust.

How to use it

Crumble it over the bowl dry, or rehydrate with warm water first, which brings out the smell and tends to win over a fussy eater. Stella also suggests bone broth as the rehydrating liquid, and we carry their Bountiful Bone Broth.

Shelf-stable, no refrigeration needed.

Switching over

If you're moving your dog onto this as a full meal rather than a topper, Stella's guidance is to introduce gradually over seven to ten days, mixing with the current food and shifting the ratio. They note sudden diet changes and overfeeding can both cause digestive upset. At 35% fat, take the slow route.

On the label statement

Stella & Chewy's does not publish an AAFCO nutritional adequacy statement or a life stage for this product on their website, and unlike the patties they do not describe it as complete and balanced. We can't fill that in for them. If you intend to feed this as your dog's only food rather than as a topper, ask us and we'll read the bag, and talk to your vet.

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