Tribal

Tribal Small Breed Adult review

Name: Tribal Small Breed Adult
Brand: Tribal

67/100Good

Cold pressedAdult

Flavour

The brand's cold-pressed recipe sized for little dogs, with a feeding guide built around 1kg to 15kg and joint doses printed on every bag. Duck is the interesting lead, since it appears nowhere else the brand presses. Starch does real work in these pellets. All three sit in our Good band.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Small dogs who need a proper small-dog recipe
A step away from chicken: duck leads one recipe, fish another
Joints that take a lot of jumping on and off furniture
A bag that has to stay fresh for weeks, with a 1.5kg option
No cereal; sweet potato carries the recipe

Worth watching

Blue whiting in all three, so none is fish free
Green lipped mussel, for a household avoiding molluscs
Whole egg at 7.5% to 8%

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

How this scores

How we score

67/100Good

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceAverage

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Listed for small adult dogs. The guide runs from 25 grams a day at 1kg to 200 grams at 15kg, so weigh portions for a very small dog.

Food type

Cold pressed

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Small

Main protein

Duck

The score, in context

Salmon 67.2
Tribal Small Breed Adult 67.0
Turkey 66.6

All three Good. Typical dry food: Good.

The three finish level, so there is no stronger recipe to chase: go by the meat your dog eats happily.

What's in it

Fresh duck35%The only duck the brand presses, and an easy sideways step from chicken.
Sweet potato35%Binds and carries the recipe in place of cereal.
Blue whiting fish (hydrolysed)9.4%A small North Atlantic fish, broken down to be easy on the gut.
Whole egg7.5%
Beet pulp, brewer's yeast
Salmon oil, sunflower oil0.6%, 0.5%
Inulin, mineralsPrebiotic FOS.
Herbal blend: parsley, rosemary, nettle, chamomile, sage, thyme, coriander, dandelion, liquorice0.25%
Glucosamine, green lipped mussel, chondroitin sulphate980, 500 and 450 mg/kgPrinted as doses. The mussel is a shellfish.

Iron, manganese, copper, zinc, iodine and selenium as standard salts, each with a printed dose.

No calcium figure is printed on this recipe.

Named ingredients

Fresh duck (35%), Sweet potato (35%), Blue whiting fish (hydrolysed) (9.4%), Whole egg (7.5%), Beet pulp, Brewer's yeast, Salmon oil (0.6%), Sunflower oil (0.5%), Inulin (source of prebiotic FOS), Minerals, 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

Lead meat: Duck; Salmon and turkey on the other two.
Energy: 389 kcal per 100g; The richest; the turkey is 338.
Fat, dry matter: 15.8%; Turkey is 10.9%.
Energy figure: The maker's own; Estimated on the other two.

The reason to look at this range first, for a small dog tired of chicken.

The three are built to the gram on one plan: fresh duck, salmon or turkey at 35%, sweet potato at 35%, hydrolysed blue whiting between 9.4% and 10% and whole egg between 7.5% and 8%. Every recipe prints the same joint trio as doses.

Moisture is left off all three panels, so the dry-matter figures assume 8%. Carbohydrate converts to between 50.6% and 53.7% of dry matter against the 43.2% cold-pressed middle.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

388.6 kcal/100g

Protein

20.5%

Fat

14.5%

Fibre

2.8%

Ash

4.8%

Dry weight

Protein

22.3%

Fat

15.8%

Fibre

Ash

5.2%

Carbs

53.7%

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

52.4%

Carbs

41.2%

Oils

1.1%

Other

5.3%

Pricing & size