Alpha Spirit

Alpha Spirit Complete Wet Meatballs: Pork with Caraway review

Name: Alpha Spirit Complete Wet Meatballs: Pork with Caraway
Brand: Alpha Spirit

70.2/100Excellent

WetAdult

Flavour

Five Excellent meatball recipes on one base, each tin declaring 80% meat and itemising every animal inside it. Chicken and pork carry all five, and the herb on the front comes with a matching third meat on three of them.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Dogs that would rather chew than lap
Dogs that get on well with chicken and pork
Owners who want the meat itemised to the percentage
Rotating flavours on one recipe base
Adults of every size, toy to giant

Worth watching

Chicken leads the beef, lamb and turkey tins, with the named animal at 10%
The beef in Beef with Sage is veal
Carbohydrate from potato starch at 18.1% to 26.1% of dry matter

Written by our editorial team. Independent guidance, not veterinary advice.

How this scores

How we score

70.2/100Excellent

Protein and processingExcellent

Nutritional balanceExcellent

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueExcellent

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults of every size. No label declares energy, so portions rest on our estimates; weigh the first week and adjust by waistline.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

Lamb 73.2
Beef 72.9
Turkey 72.7
Chicken 71.1
Pork 70.2

All five Excellent. Typical wet food: Excellent.

The five hold station together in a strong category, with starch from the binding the one figure keeping them from climbing.

What's in it

Meat: chicken 40%, pork 40%80%Pork draws level with the chicken.
Potato starchHolds the ball together; little nutrition of its own.
Carrot, pumpkin
Chard, pepper
Gelatine, beet fibreGelatine sets the sauce; beet fibre adds bulk.
Caraway0.5%Flavouring level.
Minerals

Calcium, phosphorus and iron dosed in print, with vitamins A, D and E.

Named ingredients

Meat 80% (Chicken 40%, Pork 40%), Potato Starch, Carrot, Pumpkin, Chard, Pepper, Gelatine, Beet Fibre, Caraway (0.5%) and Minerals.

Against the range

Pork: 40%; 30% on the other four.
Third meat: None; Veal, lamb or turkey on three others.
Fibre, dry matter: 1.7%; 2.1% to 2.3% on the rest.

The most pork-forward tin, on the shortest meat list of the five.

Every tin declares 80% meat with each animal given its own percentage. Chicken takes 40% or 50% and pork 30% or 40%, and where a third animal appears it is named at 10%. Potato starch is the second entry on every list, binding mince into meatballs, with carrot, pumpkin, chard and pepper behind it.

Protein converts to 37.8% to 43.2% of dry matter and fat to 21.7% to 23.3%. The herb on the front is declared at 0.5%, and four labels dose calcium, phosphorus and iron in print.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

93.6 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

8.9%

Fat

Fibre

0.4%

Ash

Moisture

77%

Dry weight

Protein

38.7%

Fat

21.7%

Fibre

1.7%

Ash

13%

Carbs

24.9%

As-fed composition

Estimated breakdown of the finished product by ingredient category, from the declared ingredient list and ingoing weights. These are estimates, not measurements.

Meat

80%

Added water

11.7%

Carbs

4.3%

Veg

2.5%

Other

1.5%

Pricing & size