Stella & Chewy's FreshMade Pork & Quinoa Gently Cooked Dog Food

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Stella & Chewy's FreshMade Pork & Quinoa Gently Cooked Dog Food

Sous-vide cooked, then flash frozen in a 16 oz pouch. Pork is genuinely the first ingredient, and this is one of only two FreshMade recipes Stella describes for dogs of all life stages.

Read this before you buy: it lives in the freezer

FreshMade is frozen, not refrigerated and not shelf-stable. Stella's instructions:

• Store in the freezer
• Thaw in the refrigerator, in the original pouch
• Allow 24 to 36 hours to thaw completely
• Use within 5 days of thawing

You can't decide at dinnertime to feed this. Because it's frozen, it's pickup or local delivery only. We can't ship it.

The organ meat in this pork recipe is beef

Stella's published order: Pork, pork bone broth, butternut squash, carrots, kale, Beef Liver, quinoa, cranberries... and salmon oil at thirteen.

There is no pork liver in it. The organ component is beef, and beef isn't named anywhere on the product. With the salmon oil that makes three species in a recipe whose name mentions one.

For most dogs that's a non-issue. If you came to pork specifically as a novel protein to get away from beef, this is the wrong pouch, and nothing on the front tells you. Come and talk to us... Stella's freeze-dried Chewy's Purely Pork Meal Mixers are pork and nothing else, and we stock them.

Pork is genuinely uncommon in dog food, so the muscle meat here is still a real novel-protein option for a dog that can have beef.

One of only two FreshMade recipes for all life stages

This matters, and it's easy to miss. Stella's four grain-free FreshMade recipes are described as a complete meal for adult dogs only. This one and their Beef, Barley & Turkey are described for dogs of all life stages and sizes.

Both of those two are also the grain-inclusive ones, and both are the only two carrying a published DHA guarantee at 0.08% minimum. DHA is one of the things a growth diet is expected to supply.

So if you want gently cooked food for a young or growing dog, these two are where Stella points you. See the honest caveat at the bottom about what they don't publish.

Where it sits in the line

Middle of the range on fat and calories. On a dry-matter basis the 10% protein works out to roughly 38%, since this is 74% moisture... the driest of the six, which is why it carries more calories than the poultry recipes despite similar protein.

About the quinoa

Quinoa sits at position seven. Stella doesn't call this recipe grain-free and doesn't pretend to... their bullet says made with quinoa, a nutritious source of fiber and vitamins, and the only exclusion claim is no corn, wheat or soy.

Worth knowing both ways: if you're avoiding grain entirely, Gobblin' Good and Chick-A-Lick'n are the grain-free options. If grain-free legume diets are what you're trying to get away from, this recipe uses quinoa rather than peas and contains no legumes at all.

What "gently cooked" means here

Stella's own description: packed in BPA-free pouches, gently sous-vide cooked, then flash frozen. Sous vide means sealed and cooked slowly at a controlled low temperature.

It sits between raw and kibble: cooked, so not raw, but minimally processed and never extruded into a dry pellet. Stella states FreshMade is reviewed by a board-certified veterinary nutritionist.

Full ingredient list

Pork, Pork Bone Broth, Butternut Squash, Carrots, Kale, Beef Liver, Quinoa, Cranberries, Ground Flaxseed, Tricalcium Phosphate, Calcium Carbonate, Salt, Salmon Oil (Preserved with Mixed Tocopherols), Thiamine Mononitrate, Vitamin E Supplement, Niacin Supplement, D-calcium Pantothenate, Riboflavin Supplement, Vitamin A Supplement, Vitamin B12 Supplement, Vitamin D3 Supplement, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Folic Acid, Zinc Proteinate, Iron Proteinate, Copper Proteinate, Manganese Proteinate, Sodium Selenite, Dried Kelp, Dried Chicory Root (source of Inulin), Choline Chloride, Taurine, Turmeric, Ginger.

Reproduced exactly as Stella & Chewy's publishes it. Also on the label: 100% human grade whole foods, with no corn, wheat or soy. Note that unlike the four grain-free recipes, this one carries no percentage-of-meat claim.

Guaranteed analysis

• Crude Protein (min) ... 10%
• Crude Fat (min) ... 6.5%
• Crude Fiber (max) ... 2.5%
• Moisture (max) ... 74%
• Docosahexaenoic Acid (DHA) (min) ... 0.08%

Calorie content

578 kcal per 16 oz pouch ... 1,275 kcal/kg

Feeding guidelines, adult dogs

As a topper: Stella's rate is ¾ oz, about 1½ tablespoons, per 10 lbs of body weight per day. Stella adds that puppies may need up to twice the adult amount.

Size

16 oz BPA-free pouch.

On the label statement

Stella describes this as complete and balanced for dogs of all life stages and says it's reviewed by a board-certified veterinary nutritionist. But they publish no AAFCO nutritional adequacy statement on their page, and "all life stages" in marketing copy is not the same as the formal AAFCO statement, which is what tells you whether a food is formulated for growth and whether that includes large-breed puppies.

We checked twice; it isn't there. If you're feeding a puppy, especially a large-breed puppy, ask us and we'll read the adequacy statement off the pouch before you commit.

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