Alpha Spirit

Alpha Spirit Soft Food Puppy Complete review

Name: Alpha Spirit Soft Food Puppy Complete
Brand: Alpha Spirit

70.8/100Excellent

WetPuppy

A soft, meat-led puppy food in our Excellent band, with the meat and fish partially hydrolysed so a young gut has less work to do. It prints calcium at 1.6% of dry matter, a figure a large-breed owner can act on.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Puppies newly onto solids, with nothing that needs a full set of adult teeth
Large and giant breed pups, because the calcium figure is printed
Raising a pup across several proteins: turkey, fish, pork and duck
Fussy youngsters. A moist meat-led food tends to go faster than biscuit
Glucosamine and taurine dosed from the start

Worth watching

Four animals and a fish blend, so no use as a trial diet for a suspected food reaction
Whole fish is the second entry, and chicken liver sits at 5%
Starch and glycerine with no plant source named

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

How this scores

How we score

70.8/100Excellent

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueExcellent

The details

Dog fit

Listed for puppies of every size. The guide runs by current weight and age, so weigh your pup regularly and walk the amounts down the chart as growth slows.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Puppy

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Fish

The score, in context

Alpha Spirit Soft Food Puppy Complete 70.8

All one Excellent. Typical wet food: Excellent.

Semi-moist puppy food is too thin a slice of the market to have a typical to compare against, so the band rests on what the label declares, and it declares a great deal.

What's in it

Fresh turkey meat35%Lean and easily digested, partially hydrolysed with the rest.
Fresh whole fish: sardinella, mackerel, horse mackerel, sardine20%Bones and soft organs come in with the flesh. Horse mackerel is simply another fish.
Fresh pork15%A meat most British dogs have never met.
Fresh duck10%
Fresh chicken liver5%The most nutrient-dense entry: vitamin A, B12, copper.
Hydrolysed starch5%Binds the food. No plant named.
Vegetable glycerine5%Keeps it from drying out. No plant named.
Eggs, beet pulp, brewer's yeast1% each
Sweet potato0.75%
Carrot, apple, cumin, thyme, turmeric0.25% each

Iron, glucosamine for the joints and taurine for the heart, each given as a figure.

Chicken liver at 5%, so not for a pup being kept off chicken.

Named ingredients

Partially hydrolysed fresh meat and fish (35% fresh turkey meat, 20% fresh whole fish (arsenal (Sardinella aurita), mackerel (Scomber scombrus), horse mackerel (Trachurus spp.), sardine (Sardina pilchardus)), 15% fresh pork, 10% meat fresh duck, 5% fresh chicken liver, 5% hydrolysed starch, 5% vegetable glycerine (USP), 1% eggs, 1% Beta Vulgaris pulp, 1% brewer's yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae), 0.75% sweet potato, 0.25% carrot, 0.25% apple, 0.25% cumin (Cuminum cyminum), 0.25% thyme (Thymus vulgaris), 0.25% turmeric (Curcuma longa)

Against the range

One soft puppy recipe with four animals and a named fish blend at the top, every entry carrying a percentage. The meat and fish are partially hydrolysed, and moisture is declared at 25%. Calcium is printed and converts to 1.6% of dry matter.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

330.8 kcal/100g

Protein

29.5%

Fat

15%

Fibre

Ash

Moisture

25%

Dry weight

Protein

39.3%

Fat

20%

Fibre

2.7%

Ash

9.3%

Carbs

28.7%

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

100%

Pricing & size