Primal Spirit

Primal Spirit Complete Wilderness review

Name: Primal Spirit Complete Wilderness
Brand: Primal Spirit

66.8/100Good

Cold pressedAdult

A cold-pressed food that splits its meat three ways and prints a percentage against every entry on the label. Pork, chicken and fish arrive at 20.4% each, and rice matches them. Twelve ingredients, twelve figures, and no unnamed animal or cereal category anywhere. It lands in our Good band.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Owners who like a figure against every entry
Dogs that do well on a mixed animal base
Dogs already through the usual proteins; pork is still uncommon in British bowls
Quick eaters, since a cold-pressed pellet breaks up in liquid instead of swelling
Multi-dog homes, one feeding table from toy to giant

Worth watching

Fish, pork and chicken all in the one recipe
Rice declared at the same weight as each meat
No vitamin and mineral panel printed

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

How this scores

How we score

66.8/100Good

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceGood

TransparencyExcellent

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults of every size. A 15kg adult in moderate condition works out at roughly 244 grams a day against the declared energy.

Food type

Cold pressed

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Pork

The score, in context

Primal Spirit Complete Wilderness 66.8

All one Good. Typical dry food: Good.

A fair result in a category we already score generously, earned by the named three-meat lead and the fully figured label.

What's in it

Fresh pork20.4%A rare sight in British dog food.
Fresh chicken20.4%
Fresh fish20.4%No species named, where the list stops short of its own standard.
Rice20.4%The starch, and one of the gentler cereals.
Beta vulgaris pulp5%Beet pulp by its botanical name. Firms up a stool.
Brewer's yeast3.5%Dense in B vitamins, which counts for more with no printed premix.
Pumpkin, banana, pineapple3.2%, 3.2%, 2.65%
Sage, ginger, turmeric0.25% eachCharacter, not a working dose.

No vitamin, mineral or calcium declaration; the micronutrition rests on the named ingredients.

Named ingredients

20.4% fresh pork, 20.4% fresh chicken, 20.4% fresh fish, 20.4% rice, 5% beta vulgaris pulp, 3.5% brewer's yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae), 3.2% pumpkin, 3.2% banana, 2.65% pineapple, 0.25% sage (Salvia officinalis), 0.25% ginger (Zingiber officinale), 0.25% turmeric (Curcuma long)

Against the range

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

344 kcal/100g

Protein

25.3%

Fat

15.2%

Fibre

Ash

9.5%

Moisture

19%

Dry weight

Protein

31.2%

Fat

18.8%

Fibre

2.5%

Ash

11.7%

Carbs

35.8%

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

61.3%

Carbs

20.4%

Veg

6.4%

Other

11.9%

Pricing & size