Tribal

Tribal Fresh Pressed Adult: Fresh Chicken review

Name: Tribal Fresh Pressed Adult: Fresh Chicken
Brand: Tribal

63.6/100Good

Cold pressedAdult

Flavour

A cold-pressed range on one blueprint, fresh named meat and sweet potato at 35% each. The pellets are pressed cool, so they crumble in water where a kibble would swell. The chicken and turkey sit in our Good band and the salmon reaches Excellent.

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Our view

Likely to suit

A dry-fed routine off a cereal base, with no maize or wheat anywhere
Joints with some wear, on dosed glucosamine, green lipped mussel and chondroitin
Fast eaters. A cold-pressed pellet breaks apart in water and does not expand after swallowing
A house with a 5kg lapdog and a 60kg giant, since the feeding guide stretches that far
Dogs settled on one bird or on fish

Worth watching

Fish in all three, and green lipped mussel is a shellfish
Carbohydrate above the middle of the cold-pressed field on every recipe
Whole egg in every recipe

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

How this scores

How we score

63.6/100Good

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceAverage

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults from toy to giant. Tribal's own guide puts a 15 kg dog at about 200 grams a day; the salmon is the richest, so its portions run smallest.

Food type

Cold pressed

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

Fresh Salmon 70.1
Fresh Turkey 69.7
Fresh Chicken 63.6

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

The salmon leads, but only slightly, so pick whichever meat suits your dog.

What's in it

Fresh chicken35%
Sweet potato35%Matches the meat and does the carrying.
Hydrolysed fish protein13%Fish broken down into a concentrated, highly digestible form. Highest in the range here.
Whole egg5%Very complete protein.
Beet pulp, brewer's yeast, mineralsYeast for B vitamins and a savoury note.
Chicken fatThe only added fat.
InulinPrebiotic FOS.
Herbal blend0.25%Itemised, parsley and nettle through to dandelion leaves and liquorice.
Glucosamine, green lipped mussel, chondroitin sulphate980, 500, 450 mg/kg

Trace minerals printed per kilo, preserved with a tocopherol-rich extract.

Named ingredients

Fresh chicken (35%), Sweet potato (35%), Hydrolysed fish protein (13%), Whole egg (5%), Beet pulp, Brewer's yeast, Minerals, Chicken fat, Inulin (source of prebiotic FOS), Herbal blend (0.25%; Parsley, Rosemary, Nettle, Chamomile, Sage, Thyme, Coriander leaves, Dandelion leaves, Liquorice), Glucosamine (980 mg/kg), Green lipped mussel (500 mg/kg), Chondroitin sulphate (450 mg/kg).

Against the range

Fish protein: 13%; 10% blue whiting on the other two.
Added fat: Chicken fat; Sunflower and salmon oil on the other two.
Energy: 371 kcal per 100g; 394 on the salmon, 363 on the turkey.

Bird-only apart from the fish protein and egg, and the middle of the range for richness.

One blueprint across all three: fresh named meat at 35%, sweet potato at 35%, a hydrolysed fish protein at 10% to 13% and whole egg at 5% to 8%. Protein converts to 25.0% of dry matter on every recipe. There is no wheat, maize or rice, and carbohydrate runs from 50.6% to 53.5% of dry matter against 43.2% for the middle of the cold-pressed field.

Every recipe carries glucosamine at 980 mg/kg, green lipped mussel at 500 mg/kg and chondroitin sulphate at 450 mg/kg, with an itemised herbal blend at 0.25%. What changes is the meat and the oil behind it.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

371.1 kcal/100g

Protein

23%

Fat

11.5%

Fibre

2.7%

Ash

6.4%

Moisture

Dry weight

Protein

25%

Fat

12.5%

Fibre

2.9%

Ash

Carbs

52.6%

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

53.3%

Carbs

41.2%

Oils

0.9%

Other

4.6%

Pricing & size