Primal Spirit

Primal Spirit Iberian Complete Dry: Iberian Pork review

Name: Primal Spirit Iberian Complete Dry: Iberian Pork
Brand: Primal Spirit

80.8/100Outstanding

Cold pressedAdult

Flavour

About the shortest ingredients list you will read this year, and pork leads every recipe on it, either alone at 70% or paired with salmon or sardine. The pellets are cold pressed. The Iberian Pork and the Salmon land in our Outstanding band, with the Sardine a step behind in Excellent.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Owners who want to recognise every word on the list
Dogs settled on pork
A dog being steered away from chicken and beef. Neither appears in the range
Fast eaters, since pressed pellets break down in liquid and never swell in the stomach
Mixed households, from toy breeds up to giant

Worth watching

Rice in all three keeps them off a strictly grain-free plan
No vitamin and mineral panel published
Both fish recipes keep fresh pork on the label

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

How this scores

How we score

80.8/100Outstanding

Protein and processingExcellent

Nutritional balanceGood

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueOutstanding

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adult dogs of every size. The energy figures are our estimates, so weigh the first fortnight and adjust by body condition.

Food type

Cold pressed

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Pork

The score, in context

Iberian Pork 80.8
Salmon 80.5
Sardine 74.4

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

The Sardine sits only a band below the other two, so let flavour make the choice.

What's in it

Fresh Iberian pork70%, 30% of it hamThe only animal on the label. Pork is still a relative stranger in British dog food.
Rice (white)Named outright, and the only starch. Carbohydrate stays near a third of dry matter.
Milled beetFibre for stool quality.
Brewer's yeastDense in B vitamins and a full protein in itself, doing real work with no declared premix.
Turmeric

No vitamin and mineral panel or calcium figure is published, so the micronutrients rest on the five named ingredients.

Named ingredients

70% Fresh Iberian Pork (30% Pork Ham), Rice (White), Milled Beet, Brewer's Yeast, Turmeric, 70% Fresh Iberian Pork (30 % Pork Ham), Rice (White), Milled Beet, Brewer's Yeast, Turmeric

Against the range

Meat: Iberian pork 70%; Pork 40% with salmon or sardine 30%
Protein, dry matter: 34.8%; Fractionally the highest; 34.4% and 34.6% in the others
Fish: None; Salmon or sardine in the other two

The one to reach for when the bowl is kept to a single meat.

Every recipe stops at five ingredients: fresh meat, white rice, milled beet, brewer's yeast and turmeric. Pork leads all three, alone at 70% in the Iberian Pork and at 40% beside 30% salmon or sardine in the other two. No chicken or beef appears anywhere, and no vitamin and mineral panel is published.

The pellets are cold pressed at low heat, never extruded, and crumble in liquid. The analyses barely move: protein runs 34.4% to 34.8% of dry matter, fat 20.1% to 20.5%, carbohydrate 32.6% to 32.9%.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

334.5 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

28.5%

Fat

16.5%

Fibre

Ash

Moisture

18%

Dry weight

Protein

34.8%

Fat

20.1%

Fibre

2.4%

Ash

9.8%

Carbs

32.9%

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

100%

Pricing & size