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Ava Breed Health Chihuahua Wet: Adult Pâté Pouches review

Name: Ava Breed Health Chihuahua Wet: Adult Pâté Pouches
Brand: Ava

63.4/100Good

WetAdult

A Good chicken pâté built for a dog that eats in thimblefuls, packed in pouches sized for it. The label is the strong point: every inclusion has a figure and every additive a dose. The recipe itself is moderate, with chicken at 35% and starch and refined fibre making up much of the rest.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Toy and small adult dogs, the group Ava built the recipe and pouch around
Picky little dogs. A smooth pâté is easy to serve in tiny amounts and mix through
Dogs that do better on one named meat
Grain-free homes, with starch from sweet potato at 8% and tapioca only
Opening something fresh each meal, at 85 g a pouch
Owners who want taurine listed as an added ingredient

Worth watching

Chicken at 35% is a moderate share for a wet recipe
Cellulose fibre at 1.5%, a purified plant fibre for bulk that pushes crude fibre to 7.2% of dry matter
Fish oil at 0.5% and chelates of unnamed protein origin, which matter on a strict elimination diet

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

How this scores

How we score

63.4/100Good

Protein and processingAverage

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Listed for toy and small adult dogs. The label puts a dog of 3 to 4 kg at 255 to 297.5 grams a day, three pouches and a little over, so check your dog's weight against that.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

Adult Pâté Pouches 63.4

All one Good. Typical wet food: Excellent.

The gap to the middle of the wet shelf is a matter of construction, and the label declares everything down to 0.001%.

What's in it

Chicken35%The only meat. Palatable and easy on most digestions, and also the meat dogs most often prove intolerant of.
Sweet potato8%Starch with some fibre and vitamins.
Cellulose fibre1.5%Refined plant fibre for bulk and stool structure without calories.
Sunflower oil0.8%
Minerals
Tapioca starchStarch and very little else, used as a binder.
Yeast extract
Fish oil0.5%A second animal source on the list.
Yeast, chicory root extract0.055%, 0.02%Prebiotics: MOS and beta-glucans, then FOS.
Yucca, cranberry, pomegranate, green tea extracts0.005% down to 0.001%Trace level, none doing heavy lifting.

Vitamins A and E, added taurine, and zinc, manganese, copper and iron as chelates of protein hydrolysates, generally absorbed better than plain sulphates, plus iodine.

Fish oil and chelates of unnamed protein origin both sit on the label, which a strict elimination diet has to account for.

Named ingredients

Chicken (35%), Sweet Potato (8%), Cellulose Fibre (1.5%), Sunflower Oil (0.8%), Minerals, Tapioca Starch, Yeast Extract, Fish Oil (0.5%), Yeast (as a source of Prebiotic Mannan-oligosaccharides and Beta-glucans)(0.055%), Chicory Root Extract (as a source of Prebiotic Fructo-oligosaccharides)(0.02%), Yucca Extract (0.005%), Cranberry Extract (0.002%), Pomegranate Extract (0.001%), Green Tea Extract (0.001%)

Against the range

A single chicken pâté in 85 g pouches. Chicken at 35% is the only meat, with sweet potato, tapioca starch and cellulose fibre behind it and a tail of prebiotics and plant extracts.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

93 kcal/100g

Protein

8.1%

Fat

6.1%

Fibre

1.5%

Ash

1.4%

Moisture

79.2%

Dry weight

Protein

38.9%

Fat

29.3%

Fibre

7.2%

Ash

6.7%

Carbs

17.9%

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

35%

Added water

32.5%

Carbs

18.1%

Oils

1.3%

Other

13.1%

Pricing & size