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Tribal 80% Gourmet Sausage: Fresh Chicken review

Name: Tribal 80% Gourmet Sausage: Fresh Chicken
Brand: Tribal

80.9/100Outstanding

WetPuppyAdult

Flavour

About the shortest route to a complete wet dinner, and all four sausages sit in our Outstanding band. The meat and organs share a single 80% figure, so nothing props up the headline. You slice a portion by hand, and it stays cold once opened.

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Our view

Likely to suit

A dog on an exclusion routine. One named animal per sausage, no fish oil in the way
Grain-avoiding homes, with one root vegetable and chickpeas as the whole plant side
Working dogs and hard keepers
Rotation feeders moving between poultry and red meat
Small dogs that struggle to eat a day's calories

Worth watching

No split between muscle meat and offal inside the 80%
No calcium figure, though it is listed from puppy up. Ask Tribal before a large-breed puppy grows on it
Once opened it needs covering and keeping cold over several meals

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

How this scores

How we score

80.9/100Outstanding

Protein and processingOutstanding

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueOutstanding

The details

Dog fit

Listed for puppies, adults and seniors of every size. Check the calcium question with Tribal for a large-breed pup, and plan fridge space for an open sausage.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Puppy, Adult, Senior

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

Fresh Turkey 82.8
Fresh Duck 82.0
Fresh Chicken 80.9
Fresh Lamb 80.7

All four Outstanding. Typical wet food: Excellent.

Barely anything separates the four, with the turkey and duck a shade ahead of the lamb and chicken.

What's in it

Fresh chicken (meat and organs)80%
Parsnips4%
Chickpeas4%
Minerals

A short panel: vitamin D3 and vitamin E with zinc, manganese and iodine. The organs bring much of the rest.

No calcium figure on the label. For a large-breed puppy, ask Tribal for it.

Named ingredients

Fresh Chicken 80% (meat and organs), Parsnips 4%, Chickpea 4%, Minerals.

Against the range

Added oil: None; Linseed oil on the other three.
Fat, dry matter: 24.2%; Leanest; the turkey reaches 34.7%.
Protein, dry matter: 44.2%; Highest in the range.
Energy: 123 kcal per 100g; Lightest; up to 150 on the turkey.

The lean sausage, for a dog that needs fewer calories.

Each sausage is 80% one fresh animal, meat and organs counted together, then a single root vegetable at 4%, chickpeas at 4% and minerals. Parsnips go with the chicken and turkey, carrots with the duck and lamb. Linseed oil closes three of the lists; the chicken does without.

Protein converts to between 39.2% and 44.2% of dry matter. The carbohydrate estimate reads 17.5% to 20.3%, a by-difference figure that on a list this short mops up anything the analysis does not name. Energy runs from 123 to 150 kcal per 100g, dense for wet food.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

123 kcal/100g

Protein

11.7%

Fat

6.4%

Fibre

0.3%

Ash

2.7%

Moisture

73.5%

Dry weight

Protein

44.2%

Fat

24.2%

Fibre

1.1%

Ash

10.2%

Carbs

20.3%

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

7.2%

Carbs

Veg

Other

4.8%

Pricing & size