Is ZIWI Peak Worth It?
A straight answer on whether ZIWI Peak is worth the money, based on its overall score, value score and real cost per serve, with better-value alternatives if it isn't the right fit.
Reviewed by Adam Lorimer
Contributing reviewer, brand and product sideIndependent scoringUpdated August 2026Not veterinary advice
Our score
Strong
ZIWI Peak product photography
- Overall score
- 81/100
- Strong
- Value score
- 64/100
- Average
- From (per day)
- $7.50
- ~15kg dog
The short answer
Genuinely high named-meat air-dried food with strong transparency: the ingredient panel is the real deal. But you pay heavily for it: among the highest price per kg and per serve in the category, and the value simply doesn't keep pace with the ingredient quality.
Where the points come from
The strongest pillar is ingredient quality at 88/100, worth 25 of the 100 points. The weakest is price & value at 64/100. That pattern, rather than the headline number, is what decides whether the price is worth paying for your dog.
What the money buys
Value is scored at 64/100, which we rate average, and it carries 25 of the 100 points on its own. The cheapest way to feed it in our index is ZIWI Peak Air-Dried Beef 1kg, at $7.50 a day for a ~15kg adult dog.
The field
Where 81 sits across every brand we score
One tick per brand. The shaded band is the middle half of the index and the heavy rule is the median, so the score reads as a position rather than a promise.
- MinMin
- 44
- Q1Lower quartile
- 58.5
- MedianMedian
- 69.5
- Q3Upper quartile
- 78.8
- MaxMax
- 87
| Brand | Overall score |
|---|---|
| Black & Gold | 44 |
| Baxter's | 46 |
| Julius | 48 |
| Woofin' Good! | 50 |
| ProBalance | 54 |
| Leaps & Bounds | 60 |
| The Nosh Project | 62 |
| Providore | 64 |
| Hill's Science Diet | 66 |
| Royal Canin | 68 |
| Ivory Coat | 71 |
| Meals for Mutts | 74 |
| SavourLife | 75 |
| Black Hawk | 76 |
| Prime100 | 78 |
| ZIWI Peak | 81 |
| Petzyo | 83 |
| Frontier Pets | 84 |
| Scratch | 86 |
| Lyka | 87 |
Dog Food Reviews scoring
The scorecard
How ZIWI Peak scores
Scored against our published methodology. Where a brand earns its points is the whole worth-it question: two brands on the same overall score can be worth very different money.
ZIWI Peak
81/100 overall · Strong
How the 100 points are split
- 25 Price & Value
- 25 Ingredient Quality
- 20 Nutrition & Suitability
- 15 Transparency
- 10 Availability & Convenience
- 5 Customer Sentiment
The checklist
When ZIWI Peak is worth it, and when it is not
Both lists come straight from this brand's entry in our index. Neither is a verdict on the food, only on the fit.
When ZIWI Peak is worth it
- Owners prioritising ingredient quality over cost
- Fussy eaters
- Small dogs where per-serve cost is bearable
When to compare carefully
- You judge food on value as well as ingredients
- You feed a large dog and the per-day cost matters
What it costs
What ZIWI Peak costs to feed
Cost per day is the figure that decides this page. It assumes a ~15kg adult dog at the brand's own feeding guide, so it moves with your dog rather than with the sticker price.
Prices checked· Editorial estimates
Estimated cost per day
Every product on one scale
All 2 ZIWI Peak products we hold, cheapest to feed first. Price per kilo sits under each label, because the bag price and the feed price are not the same question.
| Product | Est. cost per day | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| ZIWI Peak Air-Dried Beef 1kg | $7.50 | Air-dried · 1kg · $75/kg |
| ZIWI Peak Air-Dried Lamb 1kg | $7.90 | Air-dried · 1kg · $79/kg |
Editorial estimates · ~15kg adult dog
Best per-serve value
ZIWI Peak Air-Dried Beef 1kg
$75/kg
$7.50 a day for a ~15kg adult dog
- Pack size
- 1kg
- First ingredient
- Beef
- Format
- Air-dried
ZIWI Peak product photography
The verdict
Is ZIWI Peak worth it?
The ingredients are excellent, but the price per kg is steep enough that value drags the whole score down: you're paying a hefty premium for the air-dried format and small bags. Work out the cost per day before committing; on anything bigger than a small dog it gets expensive fast.
Scored out of 100 across 6 weighted pillars
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The detail
The daily cost maths on ZIWI Peak
For a roughly 15kg adult dog, the cheaper of the two ZIWI Peak bags we hold is Air-Dried Beef 1kg, at about $7.50 a day on our editorial estimate of $75.00 a bag, or $75.00 per kg in AUD. Air-Dried Lamb 1kg costs an estimated $79.00, which is $79.00 per kg and about $7.90 a day for the same dog.
Two listed alternatives cost far less to pour. Black Hawk Adult Chicken & Rice 20kg feeds that dog for about $2.10 a day at an estimated $8.45 per kg, so the ZIWI Peak beef runs roughly $5.40 more each day, close to $1,971 a year. Prime100 SK-D Single Protein Dry Kangaroo 8kg sits between them, about $3.20 a day at $14.88 per kg.
Where ZIWI Peak earns its price
Ingredient quality is ZIWI Peak's strongest pillar at 88/100, seven points above its 81/100 overall, and that pillar carries 25 of the 100 points on its own. The bags back it up: lamb is the first ingredient in the lamb pack at 38% protein and 30% fat, beef leads the beef pack at 36% and 28%, and both are grain free.
Transparency follows at 85/100, worth another 15 points, on an ownership line naming ZIWI Limited (New Zealand) and New Zealand manufacture. Nutrition scores 83/100, and both packs are rated for all life stages rather than adults only, unlike the Black Hawk and Prime100 bags above. Our product ratings are 89 for the lamb and 88 for the beef, both above the brand's 81 overall.
When ZIWI Peak stops being worth the money
Value is the weak pillar at 64/100, and it carries the same 25 points as ingredient quality, which is why an 88 on the panel still lands at 81 overall. Pack size is the mechanism: every ZIWI Peak bag in our index is 1kg, so there is no large-bag rate, and $75.00 per kg against Black Hawk's $8.45 is close to nine times the money. Both per-kg figures are editorial estimates.
The brand's own entry says to avoid it if you judge food on value as well as ingredients, or if you feed a large dog where the per-day cost matters, and the arithmetic agrees: the $7.50 figure is set at a 15kg dog and climbs from there. Availability sits at 72/100 against Black Hawk's 83, so restocking takes more planning. Not veterinary advice.
How owners pay less for ZIWI Peak
With no bigger bag to buy into, the levers are protein and retailer. Moving from the lamb to the beef saves an estimated $4.00 a bag and $0.40 a day, about $146 a year on the same 15kg dog. On the lamb, our estimates run $75.00 at PETO, $76.00 at Pet Circle, $77.00 at Budget Pet Products and $84.00 at Petbarn.
Subscription pricing goes further on the beef: Pet Circle's autoship estimate of $68.00 sits $12.00 under Petbarn's $80.00 shelf price. Petbarn adds Repeat Delivery discounts of up to roughly 15% and price matching, PETO carries a low-price guarantee, and Petstock lists the range without a tracked price in our index. Prices are editorial estimates. Confirm every figure with the retailer before buying.
The alternatives
Better-value alternatives to ZIWI Peak
Scored on the same 100-point model, so the comparison is like for like. Each card prints the two pillars a reader actually swaps a food on.
Prime100
Premium · Good
A capable single-protein option for elimination diets, and the labels are honest. But the rolls especially carry a steep price per kg for what is a deliberately simple recipe, and the range spread across formats muddies value: price the dry against the rolls per serve before you settle on one.
- Value
- 72/100
- Ingredients
- 83/100
Best forSensitive stomachs
Black Hawk
Premium · Good
Fine on a discounted big bag if you choose a named-meat-first recipe, but don't assume the whole range is equal: the cheaper lines pad the panel with grain and rice, and a chunk of the price is reach and marketing rather than ingredients. Compare the specific formula on cost per kg against SavourLife and Ivory Coat.
- Value
- 74/100
- Ingredients
- 76/100
Best forEveryday feeding if you pick the right recipe
SavourLife
Premium · Good
Fair value and the rescue donations are real, not greenwash: but the food itself is good rather than exceptional, with mid-premium panels and a narrow range. Buy it because the per-kg value stacks up, not because the cause makes the ingredients better than they are.
- Value
- 78/100
- Ingredients
- 74/100
Best forValue-conscious feeders who want a clean enough panel
Common questions
Is ZIWI Peak worth it? FAQs
Short answers to the questions that decide it, using the same published figures as the sections above.
Answers checked
Scores and estimates from our index
ZIWI Peak scores 81/100 overall and 64/100 on value in our index (average on value). The ingredients are excellent, but the price per kg is steep enough that value drags the whole score down: you're paying a hefty premium for the air-dried format and small bags. Work out the cost per day before committing; on anything bigger than a small dog it gets expensive fast.
For a ~15kg adult dog, ZIWI Peak works out from about $7.50 per day on ZIWI Peak Air-Dried Beef 1kg ($75/kg). Cost per serve is the figure that matters most: compare it against alternatives before deciding.
If value is your top priority and you're feeding a large dog on a tight budget, compare ZIWI Peak carefully against Prime100 and Black Hawk. The right pick is the one that fits your dog and budget.
Consider Prime100, Black Hawk, SavourLife. Compare them on price per kg and cost per day: a different brand may give you more for similar money.
Because our model weights price and value at 25 of the 100 points, the same weight it gives ingredient quality, and ZIWI Peak scores 64/100 there. Transparency at 85/100 and nutrition at 83/100 pull upward, availability at 72/100 does not, and the value figure drags the total back to 81. The ingredient panel is not the argument on this page; what it costs per day is.
On our editorial estimates the Air-Dried Beef 1kg is $75.00 against $79.00 for the Air-Dried Lamb 1kg, which works out at about $7.50 a day versus $7.90 for a roughly 15kg adult dog, or around $146 apart across a year. The lamb lists 38% protein and 30% fat against the beef's 36% and 28%, and we rate the lamb 89 and the beef 88. Not veterinary advice.
The ownership line reads ZIWI Limited (New Zealand), and the food is made in New Zealand, which is part of why transparency scores 85/100. The range we index is air-dried and wet rather than kibble, and both air-dried bags we hold are 1kg, so the $75.00 and $79.00 per kg figures, both editorial estimates, are the whole picture rather than the small-pack version of a cheaper big bag.
No. Dog Food Reviews is an independent value and comparison resource, not veterinary advice. Prices are illustrative and manually entered for v1, always confirm the live price with the retailer before buying.