Food Dog Supplements AniForte Canine Complete for Dogs (formerly BARF Complete)
AniForte Canine Complete 500g tub, all-round vitamin and mineral supplement for raw fed dogs

AniForte Canine Complete for Dogs (formerly BARF Complete)

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If you're mixing your dog's food yourself, this is the part that's hardest to get right. Meat, bone and offal you can weigh. Vitamins, minerals and trace elements you can't, and getting them wrong quietly, over months, is the thing that catches most home feeders out.

Canine Complete is the all-round supplement that covers that side of it. One scoop a day, stirred through the food.

AniForte make it for dogs on any diet, and it will lift any meal. Where it really earns its keep is with DIY raw feeders, anyone feeding 80/10/10, which is meat, bone and offal and nothing else, and home-cooked meals. If you're building the meals yourself, this is the bit that fills in behind the meat.

It's 100% natural, and the list is short enough to read: a ground herb mixture of nettle leaves, blackberry leaves, chamomile, dandelion root and milk thistle, plus brewer's yeast, linseed cake meal, seaweed lime, eggshell powder, organic moringa and seaweed meal. No artificial additives, no extenders, no by-products, no fillers. The vitamins and minerals come from the ingredients rather than being sprayed on afterwards, which is the whole point of it.

AniForte publish the full analysis, which is worth a look if you're the sort who checks: vitamins A, C, D3, E and the B group including B12, then sodium, potassium, magnesium, calcium and phosphorus, then copper, iron, zinc, manganese and iodine. Every figure is in the specification below.

The dose is small and scales by weight, from 2g a day for a dog under 5kg up to 10g for anything over 45kg. There's a 2g measuring spoon in the tub. It's suitable from 16 weeks of age, so puppies are fine once they're past that.

Most raw feeders run it alongside a couple of other staples, depending on how they feed. There's a short section below on what else is worth keeping in the cupboard.

A note on the name. Canine Complete used to be called BARF Complete. Same recipe, same tub, new name, and AniForte are still working through the changeover, so the one that arrives may carry either label. If you've been buying BARF Complete for years, this is it.

Why We Love It

  • Covers the daily vitamins, minerals and trace elements in one scoop, which is the part of home feeding that's genuinely hard to get right
  • 100% natural, with the nutrients coming from herbs, seaweed, brewer's yeast and moringa rather than being added synthetically
  • No artificial additives, extenders, by-products or fillers
  • Full vitamin, mineral and trace element analysis published, right down to the trace elements
  • Suits any diet, and comes into its own with DIY raw, 80/10/10 and home-cooked meals, where the vitamins and minerals are yours to sort out
  • Small daily dose with a measuring spoon included, so a 500g tub lasts months
  • Suitable from 16 weeks of age

How much to give, and how long a tub lasts

Mixed straight into daily food. One level measuring spoon is roughly 2g. Suitable from 16 weeks of age.

Your dog Daily amount 500g tub lasts Cost per day
Up to 5kg 2g (1 spoon) About 8 months About 8p
5 to 15kg 4g (2 spoons) About 4 months About 16p
15 to 30kg 6g (3 spoons) About 12 weeks About 24p
30 to 45kg 8g (4 spoons) About 2 months About 32p
Over 45kg 10g (5 spoons) About 7 weeks About 40p

Cost per day at £19.99 for the 500g tub. Update if your pricing differs.

Store it somewhere cool, dry and out of the light.

Building the rest of the bowl

Canine Complete handles the vitamins, minerals and trace elements. The rest of the bowl comes down to how you feed, and there are a few staples most raw feeders keep alongside it.

Calcium, if there's no bone in the diet. A raw diet with bone in it has this covered already. If you feed boneless, or your dog can't manage bone, a calcium source is the usual answer. AniForte point to their own eggshell powder for it.

An oil, if oily fish isn't a regular thing. Omega-3 and omega-6 come from the food rather than from a vitamin and mineral supplement, so if your dog isn't getting oily fish often, an appropriate oil is worth adding.

The plant side, if you feed 80/10/10. That ratio is meat, bone and offal, with no plant matter in it at all. Our AniForte Fruit & Vegetable Flakes cover the fruit, veg and fibre. Completely different job from this one, and plenty of raw feeders use both.

Every raw set-up is a bit different. If you're not sure what yours needs, just ask, we're always happy to talk it through.

Why the name changed

Canine Complete is the same product that was sold as BARF Complete. AniForte renamed it, and their position is that the recipe is unchanged.

The changeover is still working through, so tubs labelled BARF Complete are still in circulation. If one of those arrives, it's the right product. Nothing about what's inside has changed.

The renaming is simply about the name being clearer. "BARF" means something specific to raw feeders and nothing at all to anyone else, and this supplement suits fresh and home-cooked feeding just as well as raw.

Composition & specification

Composition: Ground herb mixture (nettle leaves, blackberry leaves, chamomile, dandelion root, milk thistle), ground brewer's yeast, ground linseed cake meal, ground seaweed lime, ground eggshell powder, moringa powder*, seaweed meal (*from organic farming)

Analytical constituents: Crude ash 18.2%, crude fibre 7.0%, crude protein 27.5%, crude fat 4.7%

Vitamins per kg: Vitamin A (retinol) 300 µg, vitamin C 20 mg, vitamin B1 22 mg, vitamin B2 10 mg, vitamin B6 16 mg, vitamin B12 7 µg, niacin 118 mg, biotin 436 µg, pantothenic acid 13 mg, folic acid 2.05 mg, vitamin D3 7.5 µg, vitamin E 23 mg

Minerals per kg: Sodium 1,800 mg, potassium 16,500 mg, magnesium 4,800 mg, calcium 45,600 mg, phosphorus 7,600 mg

Trace elements per kg: Copper 8.78 mg, iron 614 mg, zinc 37.5 mg, manganese 45.6 mg, iodine 28.4 mg

Free from: Artificial additives, extenders, by-products, fillers

Size stocked: 500g

Includes: Measuring spoon (1 spoon ≈ 2g)

Suitable for: Dogs from 16 weeks of age, on raw, fresh or home-cooked diets

Feeding: Up to 5kg 2g daily. 5 to 15kg 4g. 15 to 30kg 6g. 30 to 45kg 8g. From 45kg 10g. Mix into daily food.

Storage: Store cool, dry and protected from light.

AniForte Canine Complete (Formerly BARF Complete) FAQ's

Yes. Canine Complete is the new name for BARF Complete and the recipe is unchanged. AniForte are still working through the changeover, so the tub that arrives may carry either label. If you've been buying BARF Complete, this is the same product.
Because "BARF" means something precise to raw feeders and nothing at all to everyone else, and this supplement works just as well over fresh or home-cooked food. The new name says what it does. Nothing about the recipe or the ingredients changed with it.
The daily vitamins, minerals and trace elements. Vitamins A, C, D3, E and the B group including B12. Sodium, potassium, magnesium, calcium and phosphorus. Copper, iron, zinc, manganese and iodine. Every figure is published in the specification above, which is not something every supplement in this category will show you.
It's the complete vitamin, mineral and trace element side of your dog's diet, covered in one scoop. That's the job it does and it does the whole of it, which is where the name comes from. You add it to the meat you're already feeding.
They do different jobs. Canine Complete is vitamins, minerals and trace elements. The flakes are the fruit, veg and fibre component that an 80/10/10 ratio leaves out entirely. Plenty of raw feeders use both, and if you feed strict 80/10/10 you're missing the plant side without something covering it.
By weight. 2g a day for a dog up to 5kg, 4g for 5 to 15kg, 6g for 15 to 30kg, 8g for 30 to 45kg and 10g for anything over 45kg. The measuring spoon in the tub holds about 2g. Full table above, including how long a tub lasts.
Around eight months for a small dog, four months for a medium one, and about seven weeks for a very large dog. That works out between 8p and 40p a day.
From 16 weeks of age, yes. Dose by weight as normal. If your dog has any existing health issues, have a word with your vet or with us before adding anything new.
A raw food sold as complete will already have vitamins, minerals and trace elements added, so that side of things is covered. AniForte make Canine Complete for dogs on any diet and plenty of people use it as a general top-up, but where it really earns its place is DIY raw, 80/10/10 and home-cooked meals, where those nutrients are yours to sort out. If you're not sure whether the food you buy is complete, ask us and we'll check the label with you.
Yes. Home-cooked meals have exactly the same gap as DIY raw, so it does the same job there. It's a powder, so it stirs into anything.
The ingredients, rather than a synthetic vitamin mix added at the end. Nettle, blackberry leaf, chamomile, dandelion root and milk thistle for the herb base, then brewer's yeast, linseed cake meal, seaweed lime, eggshell powder, organic moringa and seaweed meal. That's the full list.
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