Primal Spirit

Primal Spirit Iberian Complete Wet Sausage: Ancestral Grassland review

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

74.8/100Excellent

WetAdult

Flavour

Primal Spirit's Iberian recipes in a 1kg sausage you slice as you go, all four in our Excellent band. Less water than a can means every slice carries more food. The one reservation is shared: each list hands its tail to cereals and soy protein without naming a grain.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Less washing up. One sausage covers several meals and cuts straight into the bowl
Dogs that eat better from a denser wet food, at 172 to 188 kcal per 100g against the 97 typical of adult wet food
A one-meat household, on Ancestral Grassland's pork
Owners who want the added vitamins and trace elements printed with doses
A big dog, whose daily portion is smaller than a can would need

Worth watching

Cereals unnamed on every label, so none can hold a wheat-free line
Soy protein in every recipe, propping up the analysis
Once cut, a sausage needs wrapping and keeping cold

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

How this scores

How we score

74.8/100Excellent

Protein and processingExcellent

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueExcellent

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults of every size. Carbohydrate is estimated at 18.1% to 24.7% of dry matter, above the 15.8% typical of wet food, so check that suits your dog's plan.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Pork

The score, in context

Ancestral Grassland 74.8
Wild Forest 73.5
Mediterranean Farm 73.3
Nordic Sealand 72.7

All four Excellent. Typical wet food: Excellent.

The four sit level, Ancestral Grassland ahead by a whisker, each carried by a headline meat figure and held back by the same vague cereal entry.

What's in it

Fresh pork, including kidneys and liver83% (kidneys 5%, liver 4%)Pork and only pork, organs named inside the figure.
Water
CerealsAny grain, and it can change without the wrapper saying so.
Soy proteinA plant concentrate.
Spices, tocopherolTocopherol keeps the fats fresh over several days of slicing.
Yucca extract

Vitamins A, D3 and E with zinc, iron, manganese, copper and iodine, each dosed per kilo.

Named ingredients

83% fresh pork (kidneys 5%, liver 4%) water, cereals, soy protein, spices, tocopherol, yucca extract.

Against the range

Meat: 83% pork; Pork with chicken, fish or turkey on the others
Energy: 188 kcal per 100g; Lower on the other three
Fat, dry matter: 32.0%; 28.4% to 30.3%

The sausage a single-animal household can actually use, and the densest of the four.

All four print a large fresh meat share, from 80% on Mediterranean Farm to 90% on Nordic Sealand, with pork in every one. Moisture runs from 63.8% to 65.8%, well under a can, so protein reads between 36.1% and 41.5% of dry matter and fat between 28.4% and 32.0%.

Every list then reaches cereals, with no grain named, and soy protein. Tocopherol keeps the fats fresh, spices and yucca extract close each label, and the dosed vitamin and trace element panel is identical across the four.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

188.4 kcal/100g

Protein

13.8%

Fat

11.6%

Fibre

1.2%

Ash

2.4%

Moisture

63.8%

Dry weight

Protein

38.1%

Fat

32%

Fibre

3.3%

Ash

6.6%

Carbs

20%

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

83%

Added water

10.2%

Carbs

4.1%

Other

2.7%

Pricing & size