Orijen

Orijen Adult: Six Fish review

Name: Orijen Adult: Six Fish
Brand: Orijen

78/100Excellent

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

78/100Excellent

Protein and processingGood

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

Fish

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 whole pilchard18%Whole fish with the bone, part of why ash and calcium read high.
Raw whole mackerel, raw whole hake11%, 10%
Raw flounder, raw whole rockfish, raw whole sole6% each
Dehydrated mackerel, herring, whitefish, sardine, blue whiting5% each, 4%Five more fish in dried form. No land animal anywhere on the list.
Herring oil4%The added fat, straight from fish.
Whole red lentils, peas, chickpeas, green lentils, lentil fibre, pinto beans, pea starchWhole pulses carry the starch in place of grain.
Sunflower oil
Dried kelp, dried chicory rootChicory's inulin feeds the gut bacteria.
Pumpkin, squash, courgette, carrots, apples, pears, kale, spinach, greens, berries
Turmeric, milk thistle, burdock root, lavender, marshmallow root, rosehipTrace level.

Added per kg: zinc 75 mg, copper 11 mg, vitamin B1 9.8 mg, vitamin E 200 IU, and a live Enterococcus faecium culture.

The only recipe of the four with no egg in it.

Calcium sits outside the band a growing large breed needs.

Named ingredients

Raw whole pilchard (18%), raw whole mackerel (11%), raw whole hake (10%), raw flounder (6%), raw whole rockfish (6%), raw whole sole (6%), dehydrated mackerel (5%), dehydrated herring (5%), dehydrated whitefish (5%), dehydrated sardine (5%), dehydrated blue whiting (4%), herring oil (4%), whole red lentils, whole peas, whole chickpeas, whole green lentils, lentil fibre, whole pinto beans, pea starch, sunflower oil, 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, rosehip

Against the range

Animals on the label: Fish only; Land meats too
Egg: None; On the other three
Carbohydrate, dry matter: 20.9%, the highest; From 18.1%

For a dog off land meats or egg, this is the one.

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

388 kcal/100g

Protein

38%

Fat

18%

Fibre

Ash

8.5%

Moisture

12%

Dry weight

Protein

43.2%

Fat

20.5%

Fibre

5.7%

Ash

9.7%

Carbs

20.9%

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

35%

Carbs

14.6%

Veg

0.3%

Oils

4.1%

Other

46%

Pricing & size