Stella & Chewy's Stella's Super Beef Grain Free Dinner Patties Freeze-Dried Dog Food

Stella & Chewy's Stella's Super Beef Freeze-Dried Raw Dinner Patties

This is the Stella & Chewy's bag that sells best in our shop, and the organ list is a good part of why.

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, here or in Stella's own range. Stella puts the recipe at 95% beef, nutrient-rich organs and bone.

That matters because "beef dog food" usually means muscle meat with a bit of liver. A list that runs through kidney, heart and tripe is closer to what a dog would actually eat if it caught something, which is the entire argument for raw feeding and is rarely laid out this plainly on a label.

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

The probiotics, named

Four fermentation products sit in the ingredient list: Pediococcus acidilactici, Lactobacillus acidophilus, Bifidobacterium longum and Bacillus coagulans.

We name them rather than saying "contains probiotics" because naming them is checkable and the phrase isn't. A lot of foods claim probiotics and declare no organism at all.

How to use it

Freeze-dried patties can be served straight from the bag or rehydrated with warm water. Stella also suggests bone broth as the rehydrating liquid, and we carry their Bountiful Bone Broth if you want to go that way.

The bag is shelf-stable and needs no refrigeration, which is the practical advantage over Stella's frozen version of this same recipe. The frozen one is local pickup and delivery only... this one ships.

Who it suits, and who it doesn't

A good fit for an owner who wants raw feeding without freezer space, and for a dog who has lost interest in kibble... the smell once rehydrated is a different proposition entirely.

At 35% fat it is a rich food. A dog with a pancreatitis history, or one on a vet-prescribed low-fat diet, needs that vet's view first. And it is beef from top to bottom, so it's out for any dog avoiding beef and for most dogs on an elimination trial.

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%

Taken from Stella & Chewy's own product page.

Calorie content

56 kcal per patty ... 4,940 kcal/kg

Feeding guidelines

Stella's published amounts for adult dogs, patties per day, split across two meals.

Stella notes that puppies may need up to twice the adult amount, and to check with a veterinarian for pregnant and nursing dogs. Treat all of it as a starting point and adjust to your dog's body condition after a few weeks.

Switching over

Stella's own guidance: introduce slowly, mixing with the current food over the first seven to ten days, increasing this and decreasing the other. They note that sudden diet changes, overfeeding included, can cause digestive upset. Worth following here given the fat content.

One thing worth knowing if you also buy the Meal Mixers

Stella's Super Beef Meal Mixers carry the same ingredient list and the same guaranteed analysis as these patties, 41% protein and 35% fat at 4,940 kcal/kg in both. We checked both of Stella's pages rather than assume it.

So choosing between the bag of patties and the bag of Mixers is choosing a format and a way of feeding, not a different food. The patties carry Stella's complete-and-balanced description; the Mixers are built to go on top of something, though their chart offers a full-meal column too. Worth knowing before you pay for both.

Sizes

5.5 oz, 14 oz and 25 oz.

On the label statement

Stella describes this as a 100% complete and balanced dinner. They do not publish the formal AAFCO nutritional adequacy statement or the life stage on their website, so we can't tell you from here which life stage it is approved for. If that matters for your dog, ask us and we'll read it off the bag rather than guess.

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