Primal Spirit

Primal Spirit Iberian Complete Wet Canned: Ancestral Grassland review

Name: Primal Spirit Iberian Complete Wet Canned: Ancestral Grassland
Brand: Primal Spirit

68.2/100Good

WetAdult

Flavour

Two Spanish cans with unusually large meat headlines, both in our Good band. Ancestral Grassland is 80% fresh pork with kidney and liver named inside it; Mediterranean Farm splits the 80% between chicken and pork. Both then finish on cereals with no grain named and on soy protein.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Dogs that have fallen out with the common meats. Pork stays novel for most
Owners who want a big animal figure printed, 80% on each can
A dog kept to one animal, in Ancestral Grassland
Households that like offal named and weighed
Adults of any size, toy to giant

Worth watching

Unnamed cereals on both labels, so neither suits a dog that must avoid wheat or maize
Soy protein helping to carry the protein figure
Estimated carbohydrate above the usual 15.8% for adult wet food on both cans

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

How this scores

How we score

68.2/100Good

Protein and processingExcellent

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults of every size. A 15kg dog takes a whisker under two 400g cans a day, so check the energy figure against your dog's build.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Pork

The score, in context

Ancestral Grassland 68.2
Mediterranean Farm 67.0

All two Good. Typical wet food: Excellent.

The two finish side by side, and both lose ground in the same place: precise about the meat, then vague about the grain and silent on why the soy is there.

What's in it

Fresh pork, including kidneys and liver80% (kidneys 5%, liver 4%)Organ meat named, not folded into a category. Liver is dense in vitamin A, B12, copper and iron.
Water
CerealsA legal catch-all; the grain can change while the label stays put.
Soy proteinA plant concentrate that raises the protein figure with no meat behind it.
Spices, yucca extractYucca is long used to make a dog's leavings less noticeable.

Vitamins A, D3 and E with manganese, iron, copper, zinc and iodine, all dosed per kilo, and tocopherols as the preservative.

Named ingredients

80% fresh pork (kidneys 5%, liver 4%) water, cereals, soy protein, spices, yucca extract.

Against the range

Meat: Pork only, 80%; Mediterranean Farm: chicken 50%, pork 30%
Protein, dry matter: 40.5%; 34.7% on Mediterranean Farm
Carbohydrate, dry matter: 18.6%; 27.5% on Mediterranean Farm
Fat, dry matter: 27.0%; 24.8% on Mediterranean Farm

The single-animal can and the meatier of the pair.

Both cans declare 80% fresh meat, with liver weighed inside the pork, then water, unnamed cereals, soy protein, spices and yucca extract. The added vitamins and trace minerals are printed with identical doses on both labels.

What varies is the meat: all pork on Ancestral Grassland, chicken and pork on Mediterranean Farm. The pork can is the meatier in dry matter and carries less estimated carbohydrate.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

124.2 kcal/100g

Protein

10.5%

Fat

Fibre

1.2%

Ash

2.4%

Moisture

74.1%

Dry weight

Protein

40.5%

Fat

27%

Fibre

4.6%

Ash

9.3%

Carbs

18.6%

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

80%

Added water

12%

Carbs

Other

Pricing & size