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Ava Breed Health French Bulldog Dry: Puppy review

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

54.6/100Good

DryPuppy

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

54.6/100Good

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

Puppy

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

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%Fish meal and white fish at 19.2% each.
Sweet potato19.2%
Potato17.2%
Salmon oil6.1%Omega 3 for a growing dog.
Beet pulp5.2%
Tapioca4.4%Starch binder.
Sunflower oil, psyllium, minerals, brewers yeast, eggEgg again, as on every edition.
Chicory inulin, yeasts0.2%, 0.14%Prebiotics.
Glucosamine, yucca, chondroitin, cranberry, pomegranate, green tea extracts0.03% down to 0.009%

Vitamins A, D3 and E plus L-carnitine at 200 mg, with chelated zinc, copper, manganese and iron and a yeast-grown selenium.

Calcium is undeclared. Keep it to small breeds like the one it names, not larger, faster-growing pups.

Named ingredients

Fish (41%) (Fish Meal (19.2%), White Fish (19.2%), Salmon Stock (2.6%)), Sweet Potato (19.2%), Potato (17.2%), Salmon Oil (6.1%), Beet Pulp (5.2%), Tapioca (4.4%), Sunflower Oil, Psyllium, Minerals, Brewers Yeast, Egg, Chicory Inulin (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%), Pomegranate Extract (0.009%), Green Tea Extract (0.009%)

Against the range

Feeding: Growth chart, from 140 grams a day at 3.5kg; Adult portions on the other two.
Protein, dry matter: 25%; 26.1% on the other two.
Calcium: Undeclared; Declared on the original and Adult.

Fine for a Frenchie pup; the missing calcium figure is the reason to keep it to small breeds.

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

23%

Fat

13%

Fibre

Ash

Dry weight

Protein

25%

Fat

14.1%

Fibre

4.3%

Ash

9.8%

Carbs

46.8%

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

41.9%

Carbs

46%

Veg

0.2%

Oils

8.5%

Other

3.5%

Pricing & size