Orijen

Orijen Adult: Regional Red review

Name: Orijen Adult: Regional Red
Brand: Orijen

79/100Excellent

DryPuppyAdult

Flavour

About as meat-heavy as a dry food gets. Each of the four bags opens on a long run of raw and dehydrated animal ingredients with the percentage printed, and whole pulses stand in for grain. All four sit in our Excellent band, so the choice comes down to which animals your dog does well on.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Poultry, red meat, fish or something wilder. The same construction sits under every bag
Dogs that do best with meat leading the bowl
Keeping a dog off cereal; lentils, chickpeas, peas and beans carry the starch
Working and sporting dogs. Fat is 18.0%, with the calories to match
Rotation feeding, as the four recipes share a shape and change only the animals
Avoiding land meats. The Six Fish is fish and nothing else

Worth watching

Fish is on every label, so no bag here is fish free
Dense kibble. Portions look small, and guesswork tends to go the wrong way
Calcium runs high; only the Original suits a growing large breed

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

How this scores

How we score

79/100Excellent

Protein and processingExcellent

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueExcellent

The details

Dog fit

Listed for puppies, adults and seniors of every size. With a large-breed puppy in the house, check calcium before ordering: only the Original stays inside the range growth wants.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Puppy, Adult, Senior

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Beef

The score, in context

Original 79.6
Regional Red 79.0
Six Fish 78.0
Tundra 77.6

All four Excellent. Typical dry food: Good.

The four finish so close together that the animals on the label should decide it.

What's in it

Raw beef18.5%Raw, so a good part of that weight is water lost in the oven.
Raw lamb, raw pork7% each
Raw beef liver, raw pork liver5% eachLiver is about as nutrient-dense as anything a dog eats: B vitamins, vitamin A, copper and selenium.
Raw salmon, dehydrated herring, dehydrated sardine5%, 5%, 3.5%The fish side, which means this red meat recipe is not fish free.
Fresh eggs5%
Dehydrated lamb, dehydrated beef, dehydrated pork5%, 5%, 3.5%Already dry, so they weigh more in the kibble than the figures suggest.
Whole red lentils, pinto beans, green lentils, chickpeas, navy beans, lentil fibreWhole pulses carry the starch. No grain.
Beef fat, whitefish oil2% eachBeef fat here, where the Original uses chicken fat.
Raw lamb liver, beef kidney, beef tripe, lamb kidney, lamb tripe1.5% down to 1%More organ meat, each one named.
Kelp, chicory root, fruit, greens, berries and trace herbsThe same plant tail as every bag in the range.

Added per kg: zinc 105 mg, vitamin E 375 IU, and the most heavily dosed B vitamin panel in the range, from B1 at 100 mg down to B12 at 0.2 mg.

Calcium is 2.05% of dry matter, above the band a growing large breed needs.

No live Enterococcus faecium culture on this label; the other three carry one.

Named ingredients

Raw beef (18.5%), raw lamb (7%), raw pork (7%), raw beef liver (5%), raw salmon (5%), raw pork liver (5%), fresh eggs (5%), dehydrated lamb (5%), dehydrated beef (5%), dehydrated herring (5%), whole red lentils, whole pinto beans, dehydrated pork (3.5%), dehydrated sardine (3.5%), whole green lentils, whole chickpeas, whole navy beans, lentil fibre, beef fat (2%), whitefish oil (2%), raw lamb liver (1.5%), raw beef kidney (1.5%), raw beef tripe (1.5%), raw lamb kidney (1%), raw lamb tripe (1%), dried kelp, fresh whole pumpkin, fresh whole butternut squash, fresh whole zucchini, fresh whole carrots, fresh whole apples, fresh whole pears, dried chicory root, fresh kale, fresh spinach, fresh beet greens, fresh turnip greens, whole cranberries, whole blueberries, whole saskatoon berries, turmeric, milk thistle, burdock root, lavender, marshmallow root, rosehips.

Against the range

Meat: Beef, lamb, pork; Chicken, fish or lamb lead
B vitamins: Full panel; B1 only
Added fat: Beef fat; Chicken, duck or herring

The red meat and organ pick.

Every recipe opens on a long run of animal ingredients, each with its percentage printed: raw and fresh first, dehydrated behind. Whole lentils, chickpeas, peas and beans carry the starch, and estimated carbohydrate runs from 18.1% to 20.9% of dry matter. Fish is on all four labels. The plant tail is identical across the range, from pumpkin and kale to berries, kelp, chicory and a run of trace herbs.

What changes is the animals, the added fat and the supplement panel. Calcium reads 1.59% of dry matter on the Original and 2.05% on two of the others, and only the Original stays inside the band growth wants. Three of the four carry a live probiotic; the Regional Red does not.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

386 kcal/100g

Protein

38%

Fat

18%

Fibre

Ash

Moisture

12%

Dry weight

Protein

43.2%

Fat

20.5%

Fibre

5.7%

Ash

10.2%

Carbs

20.4%

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

81%

Carbs

14.3%

Veg

0.7%

Oils

Pricing & size