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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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#13of 13 USD-priced brands by average cost per 1,000 kcal ($45.48) - the priciest of the group, even though all 7 of its meals carry a real price.
1of the top 15 highest-protein meals in our 284-meal database is Wild Zora's Summit Savory Chicken, at 93.5 g protein per 1,000 kcal.
  • 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
Meals To Go - Palisade Pineapple Mango (Vegan) package, Wild Zora

Brand profile

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.
Meals To Go - Palisade Pineapple Mango (Vegan) package, Wild Zora
Our pick

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.

153540 kcal/100g
270792.561.8 oz50 g-
151533 kcal/100g
4901024.473.2 oz92 g-
151533 kcal/100g
4901024.473.2 oz92 g-
117412 kcal/100g
3502942.833.0 oz85 g-
117412 kcal/100g
3502542.833.0 oz85 g-
117412 kcal/100g
3502542.833.0 oz85 g-
103365 kcal/100g
3102948.353.0 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 with a link to the full source. 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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