Orijen

Orijen Adult: Tundra review

Name: Orijen Adult: Tundra
Brand: Orijen

77.6/100Excellent

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

77.6/100Excellent

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

Lamb

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 lamb, venison, duck, pork, goat7%, 5% each, 4%No single animal leads; the top share is lamb at 7%.
Raw arctic char, raw whole pilchard, raw steelhead trout5%, 5%, 3%
Raw duck liver, lamb liver, pork liver5%, 4%, 4%Three livers, each named. Liver is heavy in B vitamins and vitamin A.
Fresh eggs4%
Dehydrated lamb, whitefish, blue whiting, mutton, herring, mackerel4% eachAlready dry, so they weigh more in the kibble than their share suggests.
Whole green lentils, chickpeas, peas, red lentils, pinto beans, navy beans, lentil fibre, pea starchWhole pulses in place of grain.
Duck fat, pollock oil3%, 1%
Raw lamb kidney, raw lamb tripe0.5% each
Kelp, chicory root, fruit, greens, berries and trace herbsThe same plant tail as the rest of the range.

Added per kg: zinc 105 mg, copper 5.5 mg, vitamin B1 9.8 mg, vitamin E 120 IU, with a live Enterococcus faecium culture.

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

Named ingredients

Raw lamb (7%), raw venison (5%), raw duck (5%), raw arctic char (5%), raw whole pilchard (5%), raw pork (5%), raw duck liver (5%), raw lamb liver (4%), fresh eggs (4%), dehydrated lamb (4%), dehydrated whitefish (4%), dehydrated blue whiting (4%), dehydrated mutton (4%), dehydrated herring (4%), dehydrated mackerel (4%), raw goat (4%), raw pork liver (4%), whole green lentils, whole chickpeas, whole peas, raw steelhead trout (3%), duck fat (3%), whole red lentils, whole pinto beans, lentil fibre, pollock oil (1%), whole navy beans, pea starch, raw lamb kidney (0.5%), raw lamb tripe (0.5%), 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

Protein, declared: 40.0%, the highest; 38.0% on the rest
Carbohydrate, dry matter: 18.1%, the lowest; Up to 20.9%
Animals: Venison, duck, goat, mutton; Narrower casts

The one for a hard-working dog or a jaded appetite.

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

40%

Fat

18%

Fibre

Ash

Moisture

12%

Dry weight

Protein

45.5%

Fat

20.5%

Fibre

5.7%

Ash

10.2%

Carbs

18.1%

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

71%

Carbs

14.7%

Veg

0.3%

Oils

Other

10%

Pricing & size