Acana

Acana Puppy Recipe review

Name: Acana Puppy Recipe
Brand: Acana

76.3/100Excellent

DryPuppy

A meaty, generous bowl for a pup growing into a medium frame, and Excellent on our reading. Fresh chicken and chicken meal open the list at 18% each, and carbohydrate is estimated at only 26.1% of dry matter. It feeds rich, with fat declared at 20.0%.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Puppies heading for a medium adult size
Quick-growing pups with a lot to fuel, at 366 kcal per 100g
Offal on the list: chicken giblets at 7% and raw turkey livers at 1%
Grain-free households. Legumes do the binding
A light starch load against the 39.0% typical

Worth watching

Calcium at 1.7% of dry matter is above the large-breed growth ceiling, so a pup set to finish very big suits the large-breed recipe
Chicken, turkey, egg and fish together, so no exclusion or poultry-free plan
No vitamin or mineral doses on the printed panel

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

How this scores

How we score

76.3/100Excellent

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueExcellent

The details

Dog fit

Listed for puppies heading for a medium adult frame. The chart moves as the pup grows, so weigh portions on a rich food like this and adjust to the pup in front of you.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Puppy

Breed size

Medium

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

Acana Puppy Recipe 76.3

All one Excellent. Typical dry food: Good.

Chicken at the head of the list and an unusually light starch load are what lift it a step above the typical puppy bag.

What's in it

Fresh chicken18%
Chicken meal18%Water already gone, so it gives more finished kibble per point than the fresh entry.
Whole red lentils, whole green peasThe legume base, with no cereal anywhere.
Fresh chicken giblets (liver, heart), chicken fat7% each
Turkey meal, fresh eggs4% eachA second bird, and a highly digestible protein.
Raw hake, herring meal4% eachMarine protein.
Fish oil3%Long-chain omega 3 for a growing nervous system and coat.
Green lentils, chickpeas, yellow peas, lentil fibre, pea starch
Raw turkey livers, salt, dried kelp1% liversSalt is listed on its own for palatability; kelp brings trace minerals.
Pumpkin, squash, carrots, apples, pears, courgette, greens, berries and botanicalsSeasoning. The meat does the work.

Tocopherol extracts and citric acid to hold the fats, rosemary extract, and a live Enterococcus faecium culture; no vitamin or mineral doses are itemised.

Calcium at 1.7% of dry matter sits above the ceiling large-breed growth plans work to.

Named ingredients

Fresh chicken (18%), chicken meal (18%), whole red lentils, whole green peas, fresh chicken giblets (liver, heart) (7%), chicken fat (7%), turkey meal (4%), fresh eggs (4%), raw hake (4%), herring meal (4%), fish oil (3%), whole green lentils, whole chickpeas, whole yellow peas, lentil fibre, pea starch, raw turkey livers (1%), salt, dried kelp, fresh whole pumpkin, fresh whole butternut squash, fresh whole carrots, fresh whole apples, fresh whole pears, fresh whole zucchini, dried chicory root, fresh kale, fresh spinach, fresh turnip greens, fresh beet greens, whole cranberries, whole blueberries, whole saskatoon berries, turmeric, milk thistle, burdock root, lavender, marshmallow root, rosehips.

Against the range

One grain-free puppy bag for a medium frame. Chicken leads twice, then a legume structure of lentils, peas and chickpeas does the binding in place of cereal. Turkey, egg, hake and herring fill out the animal side, and a long fruit, greens and botanical tail sits low down as seasoning.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

366 kcal/100g

Protein

33%

Fat

20%

Fibre

Ash

Moisture

12%

Dry weight

Protein

37.5%

Fat

22.7%

Fibre

5.7%

Ash

Carbs

26.1%

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

56%

Carbs

29.2%

Veg

0.6%

Oils

10%

Other

4.3%

Pricing & size