Brand № 15 / 20 · Fresh / DTC · Captured 2026-07-25

Spot & Tango

Independently owned Fresh / DTC 1 recall high

Runs two lines: pre-portioned fresh meals and UnKibble, a shelf-stable 'fresh dry' format at roughly half the cost of fresh. Publishes GA, kcal/kg, and AAFCO statements per recipe. One recall (2022, UnKibble salmonella risk, no illnesses reported).

Spot & Tango is independently owned. Of the 4 foods we hold, 4 publish a guaranteed analysis, 4 a calorie statement, 4 an ingredient list and 4 an AAFCO adequacy statement. Those counts are what the transparency mark above records — how we read a label.

Pricing

UnKibble from roughly $1/day for small dogs; fresh from ~$2/day. 14-day money-back guarantee.

Prices are not label data: they come from the brand's published rates and 2026 third-party pricing tests, they change without notice, and they are the one figure on this site we cannot verify against a label. Calorie cost is the comparable number — work it out per 1,000 kcal.

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Recall history

1 event on record, newest first. The marker is filled where the notice reports illness or death and hollow where it does not; that is read from the notice, not scored. Every event links to its own source.

2022
2022-09

Spot & Tango Notice reports no illness

Potential salmonella

Four batches of UnKibble (Beef & Barley, Duck & Salmon, Chicken & Brown Rice variants)

Direct-to-consumer shipments; no illnesses reported

Source dogfoodadvisor.com ↗ Captured 2026-07-25 Methodology

All 32 events in the recall tracker

Spot & Tango foods in the database

Protein is converted to a dry-matter basis so these rows compare to any other format on the site. The bar under each calorie figure spans the full 122-food range, with the tick at the median, so a bar here means what the same bar means anywhere else.

Dry-matter values computed from each label's guaranteed analysis. Hatched cells are values Spot & Tango does not publish. Scroll horizontally to see all 4 columns.
Food	Form	Protein DM	kcal / kg
Beef + Barley	Fresh dry (UnKibble)	28.4%	4792
Cod + Salmon	Fresh dry (UnKibble)	28.4%	4193
Turkey + Quinoa	Fresh cooked	34.5%	1625
Turkey + Sweet Potato	Fresh dry (UnKibble)	26.3%	4367

spotandtango.com is the manufacturer's own site and the source everything above was captured from on 2026-07-25. Manufacturers reformulate without announcing it, so the bag in your hand outranks this page.

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Fresh / DTC · 4 foods