Alpha Spirit

Alpha Spirit The Only One Complete: Duck review

Name: Alpha Spirit The Only One Complete: Duck
Brand: Alpha Spirit

80/100Outstanding

Cold pressedAdultSenior

Flavour

Cold-pressed food built more like a raw recipe than a bagged one, with the Duck and the Poultry in our Outstanding band and the Wild Fish a whisker behind in Excellent. Fresh meat and whole fish lead every label. Pick by which animals your dog gets on with.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Owners drawn to raw feeding but not the freezer routine
Dogs that do better on very little starch
A dog kept away from land animals altogether, through the Wild Fish
Mixed homes, from toy breeds to giants and seniors alongside adults

Worth watching

Whole fish in all three, and fresh chicken in the Duck
Moisture at 16.0%, so the pieces are soft and the bag wants closing properly

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

How this scores

How we score

80/100Outstanding

Protein and processingOutstanding

Nutritional balanceExcellent

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueOutstanding

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults and seniors of every size. Hydrolysed starch names no crop, so check with the maker if you shop strictly on grain avoidance.

Food type

Cold pressed

Life stage

Adult, Senior

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Duck

The score, in context

Poultry 80.4
Duck 80.0
Wild Fish 78.6

Three recipes across Outstanding and Excellent. Typical dry food: Good.

Named fresh animals filling most of the bag carry all three well clear of the typical cold-pressed food, and no label here wins on the score.

What's in it

Fresh duck meat45%An inclusion you would expect on a frozen label.
Fresh chicken meat20%So this is duck-forward, not duck-only.
Fresh whole fish: sardinella, mackerel, horse mackerel, sardine, whole20%Named species, gone in whole. The omega fats arrive with the fish; no oil is added.
Hydrolysed starch10.5%The only carbohydrate ingredient. The crop is not named.
Eggs, beet pulp, brewer's yeast1% eachEasily used protein, gentle fibre and B vitamins.
Pear, pineapple, chicory, banana0.25% down to 0.125%
Cumin, oregano, anise, turmeric, fennel0.125% eachSeasoning and aroma.

Only iron at 70 mg, glucosamine at 4400 mg and taurine at 3000 mg are declared. The glucosamine is a working dose for the joints.

Chicken and fish are both in this recipe.

Named ingredients

45% fresh duck meat, 20% fresh chicken meat, 20% fresh whole fish (alacha (Sardinella aurita), mackerel (Scomber scombrus), horse mackerel (Trachurus spp.), Sardine (Sardina pilchardus)), 10.5% hydrolyzed starch, 1% eggs, 1% Beta Vulgaris pulp, 1% brewer's yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae), 0.25% pear, 0.25% pineapple, 0.25% chicory, 0.125% banana, 0.125% cumin (Cuminum cyminum), 0.125% oregano (Origanum vulgare), 0.125% anise (Pimpinella anisum), 0.125% turmeric (Curcuma longa), 0.125% fennel (Foeniculum vulgare)

Against the range

Meat: Duck 45%, chicken 20%, fish 20%; Chicken, turkey and duck in the Poultry; fish 85% in the Wild Fish.
Protein, dry matter: 37.5%; The highest; 35.7% in the Poultry.
Carbohydrate, dry matter: 30.4%; The lowest; 33.9% in the Poultry.
Energy: 371 kcal per 100g; About 364 in the other two.

The richest of the three, so portions run a touch smaller.

Fresh meat and whole fish lead all three labels, the fish always the same four small oily species named outright. There is no added oil, so the omega fats arrive with the fish. Hydrolysed starch at 9% to 10.5% is the only carbohydrate ingredient.

Eggs, beet pulp and brewer's yeast sit in the middle, with fruit and herbs at fractions of a percent. Moisture is declared at 16.0% and calcium works out at 1.79% of dry matter on all three. The animals are what change.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

371.4 kcal/100g

Protein

31.5%

Fat

17%

Fibre

Ash

Moisture

16%

Dry weight

Protein

37.5%

Fat

20.2%

Fibre

2.4%

Ash

9.5%

Carbs

30.4%

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

86%

Carbs

10.5%

Veg

0.6%

Other

2.9%

Pricing & size