Stella & Chewy's Raw Blend Kibble Wholesome Grains Red Meat Recipe with Pumpkin & Quinoa Dry Dog Food

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Stella & Chewy's Raw Blend Kibble With Wholesome Grains, Red Meat Recipe with Pumpkin & Quinoa

This bag solves a problem most of the shelf doesn't: it is poultry-free and legume-free at the same time.

Why that combination is hard to find

Plenty of foods are poultry-free. Plenty are legume-free. Getting both usually means a grain-inclusive red-meat recipe, and there aren't many.

We checked this list against every category: no chicken, no turkey, no duck. No peas, no lentils, no chickpeas, no pea protein, no potato. The starches are oatmeal at three, pearled barley at four, quinoa at ten and coconut flour further down.

If you've been steering around grain-free legume diets and your dog can't have poultry, this is one of very few bags that answers both at once.

It is a Raw Blend, which is not the same as Raw Coated

Worth understanding because Stella sells both and the names are easy to confuse.

Raw Coated is oven-baked kibble with a freeze-dried raw coating on each piece. Raw Blend is that same coated kibble plus separate freeze-dried raw chunks mixed into the bag. Raw Blend is the more complete version of the two, and this is a Raw Blend.

Five animal species, and only three are named

Stella's bullet says a unique blend of animal proteins including beef, lamb and venison. The published list carries two more:

Pork meal at five and salmon meal at six both outrank the venison the recipe is named for. If you are avoiding pork or fish, this food contains meaningful amounts of both, and for an elimination diet that makes it the wrong bag. Come and talk to us.

For everyone else that's five proteins in one bag, which is genuine variety. Beef liver, beef kidney and beef tripe are in there too... a good organ profile for a kibble.

The most calorie-dense Stella kibble we've measured

447 calories a cup, 3,800 kcal/kg. Here's the Stella dry range for comparison:

Most calories per cup and among the lowest protein in the range, at 29%. That's the trade a grain-inclusive recipe makes. If you're switching from the grain-free Red Meat bag, you're dropping seven points of protein and gaining five calories a cup, so measure to this chart rather than keeping your old scoop.

The joint figures are lower too: 800 mg/kg of glucosamine and chondroitin against 1,200 and 900 in the grain-free version.

One gap we're not going to paper over

There is no AAFCO nutritional adequacy statement and no named life stage. On a complete dry food that's the most important line on the label. We checked twice. Ask us and we'll read it off the bag, especially for a puppy or a pregnant dog.

Full ingredient list

Beef, Lamb Meal, Oatmeal, Pearled Barley, Pork Meal, Salmon Meal, Sunflower Oil (Preserved with Mixed Tocopherols), Lamb, Pumpkin, Quinoa, Tomato Pomace, Beef Liver, Beef Kidney, Free-Range Venison, Beef Fat (Preserved with Mixed Tocopherols), Natural Vegetable Flavor, Beef Tripe, Flaxseed, Salmon Oil (Preserved with Mixed Tocopherols), Coconut Flour, Salt, Pumpkin Seed, Organic Cranberries, Organic Spinach, Organic Broccoli, Organic Beets, Organic Carrots, Organic Squash, Organic Blueberries, Inulin, Blueberries, Rosemary Extract, Mixed Tocopherols (preservative), Dried Kelp, Choline Chloride, Potassium Chloride, Taurine, Calcium Carbonate, Zinc Proteinate, Iron Proteinate, Copper Proteinate, Manganese Proteinate, Sodium Selenite, Calcium Iodate, Vitamin E Supplement, Thiamine Mononitrate, Niacin Supplement, D-calcium Pantothenate, Riboflavin Supplement, Vitamin A Supplement, Vitamin D3 Supplement, Vitamin B12 Supplement, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Folic Acid, Dried Pediococcus Acidilactici fermentation product, Dried Lactobacillus Acidophilus fermentation product, Dried Bifidobacterium Longum fermentation product, Dried Bacillus Coagulans fermentation product.

Reproduced exactly as Stella & Chewy's publishes it.

Guaranteed analysis

• Crude Protein (min) ... 29%
• Crude Fat (min) ... 17%
• Crude Fiber (max) ... 5%
• Moisture (max) ... 12%
• Omega 6 Fatty Acids (min) ... 2%
• Omega 3 Fatty Acids (min) ... 0.5%
• Taurine (min) ... 0.2%
• Glucosamine (min) ... 800 mg/kg
• Chondroitin Sulfate (min) ... 800 mg/kg
• Total Microorganisms (min) ... 10,000,000 CFU/lb

Stella's own label footnotes that omega fatty acids, taurine, glucosamine, chondroitin and total microorganisms are not recognized as essential nutrients by the AAFCO Dog Food Nutrient Profiles. We pass the footnote on with the figures.

Calorie content

447 kcal per cup ... 3,800 kcal/kg

Feeding guidelines, adult dogs

Cups per day, split across two meals. Stella does not state what size cup their chart is based on; the standard for dry food is a level 8-fluid-ounce dry measuring cup.

Feeding guidelines, puppies

Stella adds that puppies may need up to twice the amount listed for an adult. Since Stella publishes no life stage for this food, please ask us to check the bag before feeding it to a puppy.

Every chart is a starting point. Check your dog's body condition after two or three weeks and adjust.

Switching over

Stella's guidance: introduce gradually over seven to ten days, mixing with the current food and shifting the ratio. Sudden diet changes, overfeeding included, can cause digestive upset.

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