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Ava Breed Health French Bulldog Dry: Adult review

Name: Ava Breed Health French Bulldog Dry: Adult
Brand: Ava

57.5/100Good

DryAdult

Flavour

A Good fish-first dry food for French Bulldogs, sold in three editions that all land in the same band. Fish takes the place most breed foods give to chicken, and the digestive care is the most Frenchie-specific thinking on the label.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Frenchies whose stomachs object to chicken. Fish is the only meat on any of the three labels
Delicate digestion, with psyllium for soluble fibre and a prebiotic pairing behind it
Grain-free homes: sweet potato, potato and tapioca carry all the starch
Plenty of omega 3, from salmon oil at a full 6%

Worth watching

Unnamed fish meal and egg on all three labels, which rules them out of a strict elimination trial
No calcium figure on the Puppy edition
A fair share of carbohydrate across the range, if your dog does best on a meatier bowl

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

How this scores

How we score

57.5/100Good

Protein and processingAverage

Nutritional balanceAverage

TransparencyGood

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Made for French Bulldogs, with adult editions and a Puppy one. Check which of the three bags you are ordering, since they look alike at a glance.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Small

Main protein

Fish

The score, in context

Adult 57.5
Puppy 54.6
Ava Breed Health French Bulldog Dry 50.6

All three Good. Typical dry food: Good.

One verdict across three bags; what separates them is how much the label proves, with the Puppy leaving calcium undeclared.

What's in it

Fish: fish meal, white fish, salmon stock41.5%Fish meal at 19.9% leads, species unnamed.
Sweet potato19.0%
Dried potato17%Dried here, where the other two use fresh potato.
Salmon oil6%Omega 3.
Beet pulp5.2%
Tapioca4.3%Starch binder.
Psyllium, brewers' yeast, sunflower oil, dried whole egg, mineralsEgg as dried whole egg on this edition.
Chicory root extract, yeasts0.2%, 0.14%Prebiotics.
Glucosamine, yucca, chondroitin, cranberry, green tea, pomegranate extracts0.03% down to 0.009%

Vitamins A, D3 and E plus L-carnitine at 300 mg, with chelated zinc, copper, manganese and iron and a yeast-grown selenium.

Moisture is not declared, so the dry-matter figures assume a standard 8%.

Named ingredients

Fish (41.5%) (Fish Meal (19.9%), White Fish (19%), Salmon Stock (2.6%)), Sweet Potato (19.0%), Dried Potato (17%), Salmon Oil (6%), Beet Pulp (5.2%), Tapioca (4.3%), Psyllium, Brewers' Yeast, Sunflower Oil, Dried Whole Egg, Minerals, Chicory Root Extract (a a source of Prebiotic Fructooligosaccharides (0.2%), Yeasts (as a source of Beta-glucans and Prebiotic Mannanoligosaccharide) (0.14%), Glucosamine (0.03%), Yucca Extract (0.025%), Chondroitin Sulphate (0.02%), Cranberry Extract (0.018%), Green Tea Extract (0.009%), Pomegranate Extract (0.009%)

Against the range

Bag: 12kg; 3kg for the original and Puppy.
L-carnitine: 300 mg; 200 mg on the Puppy, none on the original.
Fat, dry matter: 14.1%; 13% on the original.

The big-bag choice for an adult Frenchie, and the cheapest per kilo of the three.

All three editions are built on about 41% fish: a fish meal of unnamed species leads, white fish follows and salmon stock closes. Sweet potato and potato carry the starch with tapioca as a binder, and no grain appears on any label. Salmon oil sits at 6% on each.

Psyllium, beet pulp at 5.2% and two prebiotics give every recipe the same gut care. Egg is on all three labels. What varies is small: the Adult uses dried potato and dried whole egg, and the Adult and Puppy add L-carnitine.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

341.5 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

24%

Fat

13%

Fibre

Ash

Dry weight

Protein

26.1%

Fat

14.1%

Fibre

4.3%

Ash

9.8%

Carbs

45.7%

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

42.8%

Carbs

45.5%

Veg

0.2%

Oils

Other

4.4%

Pricing & size