The scores
Primal Pronto Beef Recipe Frozen Raw: A (90/100) — Beef with ground bone plus beef liver. Ten organic produce ingredients. Whole-food supplementation (yeast, kelp, alfalfa). HPP documented.
Open Farm Harvest Chicken Freeze-Dried Raw: A (90/100) — Certified Humane chicken plus multiple organs. Non-GMO produce. Traceable supply chain.
Both brands sit at A/90 under the same Fresh Food Rubric v1.0 with raw-format pathogen-control credits earned via different paths.
How the ingredients compare
Primal Pronto (Beef): Beef with ground bone, beef liver, organic squash, organic carrots, organic kale, organic apples, organic parsley, organic pumpkin seeds, organic sunflower seeds, organic blueberries, organic cranberries, organic broccoli, montmorillonite clay, organic apple cider vinegar, cod liver oil, fish oil, organic coconut oil, dried yeast, organic ground alfalfa, dried organic kelp, taurine.
Open Farm (Harvest Chicken): Certified Humane cage-free chicken, chicken livers, chicken gizzards, chicken hearts, pumpkin seeds, non-GMO vegetables and fruits, salmon oil, kelp, supplementation.
Different proteins — Primal is beef-based, Open Farm’s freeze-dried raw poultry line is chicken-based. Open Farm runs three organs (liver, gizzard, heart) to Primal’s one; Primal runs a wider produce layer (ten organic items vs. Open Farm’s non-GMO vegetable fraction).
Where Primal Pronto pulls ahead
Whole-food supplementation: Primal replaces much of the conventional synthetic vitamin tail with whole-food sources — dried yeast for B-vitamins, kelp for iodine and trace minerals, alfalfa for vitamin K, cod liver oil for vitamins A and D. Only vitamin E and taurine are added as discrete supplements. This is the most food-first supplementation philosophy in our raw catalog.
Explicit HPP documentation: Primal publicly names HPP as its pathogen-control step on product pages and educational content, earning the full +5 HPP bonus directly under the rubric. Open Farm’s pathogen control exists but is not as publicly documented by specific process name.
Broader organic produce: Ten distinct organic fruit and vegetable ingredients vs. Open Farm’s smaller non-GMO produce fraction. The wider matrix delivers more phytonutrient variety and diversified fiber. Shop on Amazon →
Where Open Farm holds its own
Pantry-stable format: Freeze-dried raw lives in the pantry until you rehydrate it. No freezer space, no thaw planning, no cold-chain delivery anxiety. For apartment dwellers, travelers, and small-freezer households, this is a material lifestyle advantage over Primal’s frozen-raw format.
Third-party welfare certifications: Certified Humane is an independently audited farm-animal welfare standard; Global Animal Partnership (GAP) is a five-tier welfare rating with transparent criteria. Neither certification is claimed at the Primal level of public documentation. For ethics-forward purchasing, Open Farm is the clearer fit.
Three-organ stack: Chicken liver plus chicken gizzard plus chicken heart on the Harvest Chicken SKU gives Open Farm three distinct organ meats — matching ancestral-diet organ-variety targets more closely than Primal’s single-liver configuration. Shop on Amazon →
The bottom line
This is a tie on measurable rubric-scored ingredient quality at A/90 — the decision is format plus philosophy. For frozen-raw purists with freezer space, whole-food supplementation preference, and a documented-HPP priority, Primal Pronto Frozen Raw. For pantry-stable convenience, third-party welfare certifications, and three-organ stack density, Open Farm Freeze-Dried Raw. Both are priced at the premium end of the raw category (roughly $5–8 per day for a medium dog).