Acana

Acana Sport & Agility Recipe review

Name: Acana Acana Sport & Agility Recipe
Brand: Acana

77.7/100Excellent

DryPuppyAdult

Acana Sport & Agility Recipe is the brand's working-dog fuel, a grain-free chicken kibble with fat raised to 22% and estimated carbohydrate squeezed to 18%. Fresh chicken at 21% and chicken meal at 20% lead a list where every animal is named, and the energy comes from fat rather than starch, the way a hard-running body prefers it. It finishes in our Excellent band.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Some dogs have jobs, and this food was written for them.

Working dogs, gundogs and sporting types that empty the tank most days
Agility, flyball and canicross households needing dense calories in a manageable portion
Hard keepers that struggle to hold condition through a busy season
Owners running a mixed-age active pack, since the label spans puppy to senior

Worth watching

The richness is the feature, so make sure it matches the dog in front of you.

All this energy is for burning; fed to a dog whose main event is the sofa, it will arrive on the scales instead
Chicken and turkey run right through it, and there is no fish free option here either, with hake, herring meal and fish oil on the list too
The label includes puppies, but calcium works out at 1.93% of dry matter, above the level usually chosen for large-breed puppies, so for a giant pup it fits better once the growing is done

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

How this scores

How we score

77.7/100Excellent

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueExcellent

The Details

Dog fit

Some dogs have jobs, and this food was written for them. The richness is the feature, so make sure it matches the dog in front of you.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Puppy, Adult, Senior

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

An Excellent band food in a market whose typical adult dry offering reads Good. The score is earned the unglamorous way, with named meats stacked high, carbohydrate kept unusually low for a kibble and an analysis declared in full. Protein and processing reads Good and value Excellent, with nutritional balance and transparency both Outstanding.

What's in it

Ingredients, as declared: Fresh chicken (21%), chicken meal (20%), whole red lentils, whole green peas, chicken fat (8%), turkey meal (7%), fresh chicken giblets (liver, heart) (4%), fresh eggs (4%), raw hake (4%), fish oil (3.5%), herring meal (3%), whole chickpeas, whole green lentils, whole yellow peas, pea starch, raw turkey liver (0.5%), 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.

Named ingredients

Fresh chicken (21%), chicken meal (20%), whole red lentils, whole green peas, chicken fat (8%), turkey meal (7%), fresh chicken giblets (liver, heart) (4%), fresh eggs (4%), raw hake (4%), fish oil (3.5%), herring meal (3%), whole chickpeas, whole green lentils, whole yellow peas, pea starch, raw turkey liver (0.5%), 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.

Nutritional additives

Additives per 1kg: Technological additives: 1b306(i) Tocopherol extracts from vegetable oils: 121 mg, 1a330 citric acid: 40 mg. Sensory additives: Rosemary extract 80mg Zootechnical additives: 4b1707 Enterococcus faecium DSM 10663/NCIMB 10415: 1 x 10⁹ CFU

Ingredient notes

Fresh chicken at 21% and chicken meal at 20% front the recipe, with turkey meal at 7%, chicken giblets, fresh eggs and raw hake behind them. Protein converts to 39.8% of dry matter, the level you want when a dog is rebuilding muscle night after night.

The energy story is the point: chicken fat at 8% and fish oil at 3.5% push fat to 25.0% of dry matter and energy to 372 kcal per 100g. Estimated carbohydrate converts to just 20.4% of dry matter against a 46.2% typical. Working muscle runs well on fat, and this is one of the lower-carbohydrate mainstream kibbles around.

No grain appears on the list at all. Lentils, peas, chickpeas and pea starch do the binding on their own. Herring meal at 3% adds a second named fish alongside the hake and the oil.

A live probiotic strain is declared and tocopherols do the preserving. The fresh produce and botanicals at the tail sit at trace level; the meats and fats are the recipe.

Price and value

£6.75 a kilo, in a single 11.4kg bag.

Thanks to the energy density, a 15kg adult in moderate condition needs only about 226 grams a day, which comes to £1.52, worked on the standard 110 × bodyweight^0.75 kcal maintenance estimate. A dog in genuine work will need more, so feed to output and condition.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

372.5 kcal/100g

Protein

35%

Fat

22%

Fibre

Ash

Moisture

12%

Dry weight

Protein

39.8%

Fat

25%

Fibre

5.7%

Ash

9.1%

Carbs

20.4%

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

59.5%

Carbs

23.9%

Veg

0.8%

Oils

11.5%

Other

4.3%

Pricing & size