Ziwi Peak

Ziwi Peak Air Dried: Venison Recipe review

Name: Ziwi Peak Air Dried: Venison Recipe
Brand: Ziwi Peak

83.8/100Outstanding

DryAdult

Flavour

About as concentrated as a bowl gets: venison and its organs at 93% in one recipe, lamb with whole mackerel in the other. Almost nothing on either label came from anywhere but an animal. Both sit in our Outstanding band.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Meat-first dogs that thrive on very little else
Raw-style feeding without the freezer, as air drying keeps the food stable in the cupboard
Working and high-energy dogs; a lot of calories fit in a small serving
A novel protein plan, with venison a meat most dogs have never eaten
Older or stiffening dogs, with green mussel at 3% on both labels

Worth watching

Green mussel on both, and oily fish in the Mackerel and Lamb, so neither is seafood free
Adult labels only. Come to it once a puppy has finished growing
Portions that look small beside a kibble scoop, so weigh them at the start

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

How this scores

How we score

83.8/100Outstanding

Protein and processingOutstanding

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueOutstanding

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adult dogs of every size. A 15kg adult eats about 155 grams a day, so weigh the first few meals and move across gradually.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Venison

The score, in context

Mackerel 84.5
Venison Recipe 83.8

All two Outstanding. Typical dry food: Good.

Both finish level, earned by the sheer proportion of animal and an analysis with barely any carbohydrate left; pick the meat that suits your dog.

What's in it

Venison and venison organs: venison, tripe, heart, lung, liver, kidney, bone, cartilage93%One land animal from muscle through to bone. Bone is where the 10.0% ash comes from.
New Zealand green mussel3%The only entry from another animal.
Lecithin, parsley
Dried apple pomace
Chicory inulinFeeds the gut's own bacteria.
Minerals, dried organic kelp

Vitamin D3 at 840 IU per kilo, zinc, copper, iron and manganese as chelates, and selenium from yeast at 0.09mg.

Green mussel is the one exception for a single-protein plan: skip it for a dog avoiding shellfish.

Named ingredients

93% Venison and Venison Organs (including Venison, Tripe, Heart, Lung, Liver, Kidney, Bone, Cartilage), 3% New Zealand Green Mussel, Lecithin, Parsley, Dried Apple Pomace, Chicory Inulin, Minerals, Dried Organic Kelp

Against the range

Meat: Venison and organs 93%; Lamb with whole mackerel on the other.
Protein, dry matter: 54.4%; 52.7% on the Mackerel and Lamb.
Carbohydrate, dry matter: 3.8%; 5.5% on the Mackerel and Lamb.

As close to single-protein feeding as a complete food comfortably gets.

Both recipes are meat, organs, bone and cartilage dried gently to a soft chip, every part named inside the headline percentage, and both finish with New Zealand green mussel at 3%. There is no cereal, potato, pulse or poured-in oil. Moisture is 9.0%, protein converts to 52.7% and 54.4% of dry matter, and fat to 29.7% on both.

The short plant tail is functional: chicory inulin, apple pomace, kelp, lecithin and parsley. What varies is the animal, and a little of the mineral panel.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

465 kcal/100g

Protein

49.5%

Fat

27%

Fibre

Ash

10%

Moisture

Dry weight

Protein

54.4%

Fat

29.7%

Fibre

1.1%

Ash

11%

Carbs

3.8%

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

96%

Veg

1.4%

Other

2.6%

Pricing & size