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Wild Zora
Just 7 meals, but the priciest per 1,000 kcal of any brand in our 284-meal database - all built around a paleo, grain-free niche.
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- 7meals in our DB #12 of 14 brands by size
- 129.8avg cal/oz (458 kcal/100g) #5 of 14
- 55.1avg protein g/1,000kcal #4 of 14
- $45.48avg cost/1,000kcal #13 cheapest of 13 priced
Brand profile
- Wild Zora Foods was founded in 2014 in Loveland, Colorado by husband-and-wife Josh and Zora Tabin. In January 2018 it acquired Paleo Meals To Go, a smaller Loveland company founded in 2013 by Dawn Anderson and Ty Soukup - 6 of the 7 Wild Zora meals in our database, everything sold under the “Meals To Go” name, are that acquired product line. Only the Instant Cereal is a separate, in-house line.
- Wild Zora markets every meal in this line as gluten-free and grain-free on its own site, positioned for paleo and AIP-style diets - a real dietary niche, though our own diet-tag data below has none of that recorded per meal yet.
Sources: wildzora.com, Paleo Meals To Go acquisition · PRWeb, acquisition announcement · wildzora.com, Meals To Go collection · TrailGroove Blog, Mountain Beef Stew review
Who Wild Zora suits - and who should look elsewhere
Built from the 284-meal database, not opinion - the same facts anyone can check in the table below.
Good fit if…
- You eat paleo, or avoid grains: Wild Zora markets every meal here as gluten-free and grain-free on its own site, and 6 of its 7 meals trace back to Paleo Meals To Go, a company built specifically around that niche before Wild Zora acquired it in 2018.
- You want protein without a huge calorie load: Wild Zora averages 55.1 g protein per 1,000 kcal, 4th-highest of the 14 brands we track, and its Summit Savory Chicken is 1 of the top 15 highest-protein meals in the whole database.
- You want a vegan freeze-dried breakfast: 2 of the brand's 7 meals - Palisade Pineapple Mango and Cliffside Coconut Berry - carry “(Vegan)” directly in the product name, though neither carries a vegan tag in our own diet-tag field yet (see the data gap below).
Look elsewhere if…
- Budget matters most: at $45.48 per 1,000 kcal on average, Wild Zora is the priciest of the 13 USD-priced brands in our database - Mountain House, our other live brand guide, averages $23.31.
- You want a big rotation of flavors: 3 breakfast and 4 main meals is 7 total, a fraction of Mountain House's 41 or Peak Refuel's 20 - you'll repeat meals fast on a week-long trip.
- You filter strictly by allergen or diet-tag data on this site: Wild Zora publishes no allergen data in our records for any of its 7 meals, and none of the 7 carry a diet tag either. That's a gap in our data, not a claim about what's in the food - check the label yourself.
For the best mix of density and value in the Wild Zora lineup, Palisade Pineapple Mango (Vegan) is the pick: 151 cal/oz, the 2nd-highest of the brand's 7 meals, at $24.47 per 1,000 kcal - the cheapest in the Wild Zora lineup, well under the brand's priciest meal, the Instant Cereal, at $92.56 - with 10 g of protein in a 490-calorie pouch.
Every Wild Zora meal in our database
7 meals, sorted by calorie density by default - click a column header (or focus it and press Enter) to re-sort.
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153
540 kcal/100g
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270 | 7 | 92.56 | 1.8 oz50 g | - | |
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151
533 kcal/100g
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490 | 10 | 24.47 | 3.2 oz92 g | - | |
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151
533 kcal/100g
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490 | 10 | 24.47 | 3.2 oz92 g | - | |
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117
412 kcal/100g
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350 | 29 | 42.83 | 3.0 oz85 g | - | |
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117
412 kcal/100g
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350 | 25 | 42.83 | 3.0 oz85 g | - | |
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117
412 kcal/100g
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350 | 25 | 42.83 | 3.0 oz85 g | - | |
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103
365 kcal/100g
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310 | 29 | 48.35 | 3.0 oz85 g | - |
Where the data says Wild Zora is strong - and weak
Computed from all 284 meals in our database, not opinion.
Strong
- 4th of 14 brands by average protein per 1,000 kcal (55.1 g) - ahead of Mountain House (52.7) and Peak Refuel (46.5), and behind only Packit Gourmet, LyoFood, and Campers Pantry.
- Its Summit Savory Chicken is 1 of the top 15 highest-protein meals in our entire 284-meal database at 93.5 g protein per 1,000 kcal - though that same meal is also the brand's least dense (103.4 cal/oz) and 2nd-priciest per 1,000 kcal ($48.35) of its 7.
- Full price transparency: all 7 of 7 meals carry a real USD price - unlike Radix Nutrition, which publishes no usable price at all in our data.
- Its densest meal, the Instant Cereal at 153.1 cal/oz, out-denses the single densest meal from 7 of the other 13 brands we track, including LyoFood (146.5) and Backpacker's Pantry (137.7).
Weak
- Priciest brand in our database: $45.48 per 1,000 kcal on average, the most expensive of the 13 USD-priced brands we track - Tent Meals, the cheapest, averages $12.27.
- Smallest catalogue of the two live brand hubs: just 7 meals, split across 3 breakfasts and 4 mains with nothing tagged snack or dessert - versus Mountain House's 41 or Peak Refuel's 20.
- Zero diet tags recorded on any of Wild Zora's 7 meals in our database (0 of 7), even though the brand markets every “Meals To Go” entree as gluten-free and grain-free on its own site - our per-meal diet-tag field simply hasn't been filled in for this brand yet.
- No allergen data recorded for any of Wild Zora's 7 meals in our database - a gap in our own records, not a claim these meals are free of common allergens. Check the package label yourself before buying.
What people say
Independent reviews of Wild Zora, quoted briefly, each outlet linked once. We have not tested these meals ourselves - this is what other outlets report.
“The meal is really quite good”
“The calorie count could use a boost”
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