Primal Spirit

Primal Spirit Iberian Complete Wet Canned Nordic Sealand review

Name: Primal Spirit Iberian Complete Wet Canned Nordic Sealand
Brand: Primal Spirit

71.4/100Excellent

WetAdult

Fresh pork at 50% and fresh fish at 30%, with fish oil on top, put this can in our Excellent band. Pork is rare in British dog food, which makes it a real change for a dog bored of the usual meats. The back half of the label is vaguer: cereals and soy protein, with no grain named.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Dogs that have never eaten pork, still uncommon on British shelves
Owners who want the two headline animals weighed: pork 50%, fish 30%
Dogs that do well on an oily bowl, with fish oil added to the fish
Any adult from toy to giant, all on the same can
Additives dosed in print, vitamin A at 7954 IU and zinc at 44mg per kilo among them

Worth watching

Cereals with no grain named. No good for a dog that must avoid wheat or maize
Fresh fish with no species given
Carbohydrate at an estimated 24.4% of dry matter, against 15.8% for typical adult wet food

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

How this scores

How we score

71.4/100Excellent

Protein and processingExcellent

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyExcellent

ValueExcellent

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults of every size. A 15kg dog needs about 720 grams a day, a shade under two cans, so count cans before ordering.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Pork

The score, in context

Primal Spirit Iberian Complete Wet Canned Nordic Sealand 71.4

All one Excellent. Typical wet food: Excellent.

The meat is plentiful and named; what holds the can back is everything behind it, from unnamed cereals to soy protein doing part of the protein work.

What's in it

Fresh pork50%Rare enough in dog food that many dogs will never have tasted it.
Fresh fish30%No species named, so you cannot rule out one fish in particular.
Water
CerealsNo grain named, and it can change batch to batch with nothing moving on the tin.
Soy proteinConcentrated plant protein adding to the analysis.
Fish oilHere in earnest, for the omega 3.
Potato starchStarch with little else attached.
Spices, yucca extract

Vitamins A, D3 and E and five trace minerals all dosed in print, with plant tocopherols keeping the fats fresh.

Cereals are unnamed, so a dog that must avoid a particular grain cannot be kept safe on this can.

Named ingredients

50% fresh pork, 30% fresh fish, water, cereals, soy protein, fish oil, potato starch, spices, yucca extract.

Against the range

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

116.4 kcal/100g

Protein

9.5%

Fat

Fibre

1.6%

Ash

1.8%

Moisture

75%

Dry weight

Protein

38%

Fat

24%

Fibre

6.4%

Ash

7.2%

Carbs

24.4%

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

15.8%

Carbs

2.8%

Oils

0.4%

Other

0.9%

Pricing & size