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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.
153540 kcal/100g | 270 | 7 | 92.56 | 1.8 oz50 g | - | |
151533 kcal/100g | 490 | 10 | 24.47 | 3.2 oz92 g | - | |
151533 kcal/100g | 490 | 10 | 24.47 | 3.2 oz92 g | - | |
117412 kcal/100g | 350 | 29 | 42.83 | 3.0 oz85 g | - | |
117412 kcal/100g | 350 | 25 | 42.83 | 3.0 oz85 g | - | |
117412 kcal/100g | 350 | 25 | 42.83 | 3.0 oz85 g | - | |
103365 kcal/100g | 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 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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