Alpha Spirit

Alpha Spirit Complete Wet Pouch: Chicken Pate review

Name: Alpha Spirit Complete Wet Pouch: Chicken Pate
Brand: Alpha Spirit

76.3/100Excellent

WetPuppyAdult

Flavour

Smooth pate pouches with about as short a list as wet food offers, all five in our Excellent band. Each is 95% of one named animal, with organs spelled out on three of them, and four further entries behind it. Chicken, turkey, ham, salmon and sea bream each get their own pouch.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Dogs on an elimination trial: each pouch keeps its meat to a single animal
Dogs that struggle with texture, from age, dental trouble or plain fussiness
Small dogs and toppers. The smallest pouch is a single 85 g serving
Households with dogs at different stages, as the label covers puppies to seniors
Dogs that need something unfamiliar, with sea bream and salmon beside the usual three

Worth watching

Gelatin is not pinned to a species on any pouch
Brewer's yeast is on every list, which matters for a dog that reacts to yeast

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

How this scores

How we score

76.3/100Excellent

Protein and processingExcellent

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyExcellent

ValueExcellent

The details

Dog fit

Listed for puppies, adults and seniors of every size. No pouch declares moisture, so the dry-matter figures are estimates; for a strict trial, ask Alpha Spirit where the gelatin comes from.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Puppy, Adult, Senior

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

Chicken Pate 76.3
Turkey Pate 76.3
Salmon Pate 75.8
Sea Bream Pate 75.8
Ham Pate 72.5

All five Excellent. Typical wet food: Excellent.

The five sit close enough together that the animal, not the ranking, is what to choose on.

What's in it

Chicken: meat, liver, heart95%65% meat, with liver and heart named. The organs do much of the micronutrition.
GelatinSets the pate. No species given.
PumpkinA little gentle fibre.
Brewer's yeastB vitamins and some protein.
Cassava shidigeraPrinted as cassava shidigera here, in place of yucca.

Vitamins A, D3 and E with manganese, iron, copper, zinc and iodine, every one with a figure beside it.

Gelatin has no species on the label. For a strict elimination trial, check its source with Alpha Spirit.

Named ingredients

95% chicken (65% meat, liver, heart), gelatin, pumpkin, brewer's yeast, cassava shidigera.

Against the range

Fat, dry matter: 36.4%; Shared top with the turkey; sea bream lowest at 25.0%
Protein, dry matter: 43.2%; Up to 50.0% on the sea bream
Organs named: Liver, heart; Turkey the same, ham names lung and liver

One of the two richest pouches, the one for a dog that needs feeding up.

Every pouch is 95% one named animal, then gelatin, pumpkin, brewer's yeast and a yucca extract (printed as cassava shidigera on the chicken and salmon). The chicken, turkey and ham labels split the meat further, naming liver, heart or lung behind 65% muscle meat or ham.

Protein converts to between 43.2% and 50.0% of dry matter on the four pouches we can convert, and fat between 25.0% and 36.4%. None declares moisture, and the ham leaves out ash too. The added panel is the same on all five.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

109 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

9.5%

Fat

Fibre

0.8%

Ash

1.5%

Dry weight

Protein

43.2%

Fat

36.4%

Fibre

3.6%

Ash

6.8%

Carbs

10%

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

95%

Added water

Veg

0.6%

Other

1.4%

Pricing & size