Tribal

Tribal Small Breed Adult: Turkey review

Name: Tribal Small Breed Adult: Turkey
Brand: Tribal

66.6/100Good

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

66.6/100Good

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

Turkey

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 turkey35%The leanest analysis of the three.
Sweet potato35%Binds and carries the recipe in place of cereal.
Blue whiting fish (hydrolysed)10%A small North Atlantic fish, broken down to be easy on the gut.
Whole egg8%
Beet pulp, brewer's yeast
Salmon oil, sunflower oil0.6% each
InulinPrebiotic 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.

Named ingredients

Fresh turkey (35%), Sweet potato (35%), Blue whiting fish (hydrolysed) (10%), Whole egg (8%), Beet pulp, Brewer's yeast, Salmon oil (0.6%), Sunflower oil (0.6%), 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

Fat, dry matter: 10.9%; The leanest; the duck is 15.8%.
Energy: 338 kcal per 100g; The lightest, so the biggest portions.
Calcium, dry matter: 0.98%; 0.61% on the salmon.

The lighter bowl for a small dog that gains easily.

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

337.7 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

23%

Fat

10%

Fibre

2.8%

Ash

Dry weight

Protein

25%

Fat

10.9%

Fibre

Ash

7.6%

Carbs

53.5%

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

53.7%

Carbs

40.6%

Oils

1.2%

Other

4.5%

Pricing & size