Acana

Acana Adult Dog Recipe review

Name: Acana Adult Dog Recipe
Brand: Acana

71.9/100Excellent

DryAdult

An Excellent grain-free kibble whose animal content arrives as a mosaic. Fresh chicken and chicken meal lead at 13% each, and every animal behind them is named and given a percentage. A live probiotic is dosed on the label.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Owners who want every animal source percentaged, down to raw turkey livers at 1%
Dogs kept off grain: lentils, peas and chickpeas carry the starch
Dogs that thrive on mixed proteins
Stomachs that like help, with chicory root in the bowl and Enterococcus faecium on the panel

Worth watching

Chicken, turkey, fish and egg in one recipe, so it cannot anchor an elimination diet
Fibre at 5%, which firms some dogs up and hurries others along

Written by our editorial team. Independent guidance, not veterinary advice.

How this scores

How we score

71.9/100Excellent

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceGood

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueExcellent

The details

Dog fit

Listed for medium adult dogs. Weigh the daily amount against the dog in front of you: the label puts a 15kg dog at 135 to 205 grams.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Medium

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

Acana Adult Dog Recipe 71.9

All one Excellent. Typical dry food: Good.

An unusually well itemised label and a lower-carbohydrate bowl earn this its place, with three pillars even at Good and transparency clear of them.

What's in it

Fresh chicken, chicken meal13% eachMeal is meat with the water already out, so it counts for more than its place suggests.
Whole red lentils, green peas, chickpeasThe starch, and no grain.
Fresh chicken giblets (liver, heart), turkey meal6.5% each
Chicken fat6%
Fresh eggs, raw hake4% eachFish starts here.
Lentil fibre, pea starchPart of why fibre reads 5%.
Fish oil, herring meal3% eachOmega fats for skin and coat. The food can never be fed fish free.
Green lentils, yellow peas, raw turkey liverslivers 1%
Salt, dried kelp, dried chicory rootChicory is a prebiotic.
Fruit, vegetables, greens and herbs from apples to turmericReads well and weighs little: 0.8% of the recipe by our estimate.

Choline, zinc, copper, B vitamins and vitamins A, D3 and E, all dosed, plus a live probiotic, Enterococcus faecium, printed by strain.

Named ingredients

Fresh chicken (13%), chicken meal (13%), whole red lentils, whole green peas, whole chickpeas, fresh chicken giblets (liver, heart) (6.5%), turkey meal (6.5%), chicken fat (6%), fresh eggs (4%), raw hake (4%), lentil fibre, pea starch, fish oil (3%), whole green lentils, whole yellow peas, herring meal (3%), raw turkey livers (1%), salt, dried kelp, fresh whole apples, fresh whole butternut squash, fresh whole carrots, fresh whole pears, fresh whole pumpkin, fresh whole zucchini, dried chicory root, fresh beet greens, fresh kale, fresh spinach, fresh turnip greens, whole blueberries, whole cranberries, whole saskatoon berries, burdock root, lavender, marshmallow root, milk thistle, rosehips, turmeric.

Against the range

A grain-free kibble with no potato either. The animal content comes in instalments from chicken, turkey, egg and two fish, which our estimate puts at 47% of the recipe, and legumes do all the binding. Carbohydrate converts to 34.0% of dry matter, under the 46.2% a typical adult dry food runs at.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

351 kcal/100g

Protein

29%

Fat

17%

Fibre

Ash

Moisture

12%

Dry weight

Protein

33%

Fat

19.3%

Fibre

5.7%

Ash

Carbs

34%

As-fed composition

Estimated breakdown of the finished product by ingredient category, from the declared ingredient list and ingoing weights. These are estimates, not measurements.

Meat

47%

Carbs

38.9%

Veg

0.8%

Oils

Other

4.4%

Pricing & size