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Ava Breed Health Labrador Retriever Dry review

Name: Ava Breed Health Labrador Retriever Dry
Brand: Ava

63.3/100Good

DryAdult

A chicken-led kibble written around Labradors, their appetite, their condition and the joints underneath, and it sits in our Good band. Chicken is declared at 42.0%, with meal and fresh shares printed separately. Taurine, L-carnitine and a dosed joint pair sit in the small print.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Labradors and other big, enthusiastic eaters
Owners watching a waistline: fat is held to 13.0% and L-carnitine dosed at 300 mg per kilo
Large frames that deserve joint support early, with glucosamine at 0.07% and chondroitin at 0.055%
Dogs that thrive on chicken, split 21.0% meal and 18.8% fresh
Grain-happy households: brown rice at 18.8% heads the starch, with no legume in sight

Worth watching

Chicken in the meat, the fat and the gravy
Salmon oil, under a strict fish exclusion
Maize at 9.2% and sorghum at 6.4% behind the rice

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

How this scores

How we score

63.3/100Good

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceAverage

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Written for Labradors: the chart starts at 20kg to 25kg on 260 to 310 grams and puts a 30kg to 40kg dog at 355 to 440 grams. The energy figure is our estimate, so let your dog's shape fine-tune it.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

Ava Breed Health Labrador Retriever Dry 63.3

All one Good. Typical dry food: Good.

Tidy work: named chicken up front, every chelated mineral dosed, and the Labrador extras printed on the label itself.

What's in it

Chicken meal, chicken21.0%, 18.8%Fresh chicken is mostly water before baking; the meal does most of the protein work.
Brown rice18.8%
Maize9.2%A plainer starch than the rice above it.
Beet pulp6.8%Fermentable fibre.
Flaked oats, sorghum6.4% eachOats bring fibre and B vitamins; sorghum is gluten free.
Chicken fat, salmon oil3.0% fat
Brewers yeast, chicken gravy, egg, minerals2.2% gravy
Chicory root extract, yeasts0.2%, 0.14%The prebiotic entries.
Glucosamine, chondroitin sulphate0.07%, 0.055%The joint pair most often added for big-framed dogs.
Yucca, cranberry, pomegranate, green tea extracts0.025% down to 0.009%Decoration at hundredths of a percent. Yucca takes the edge off garden smells.

Taurine at 750mg and L-carnitine at 300mg per kilo beside vitamins A, D3 and E, with chelated zinc, copper and manganese, and selenium as selenised yeast.

Iron is named as a chelate but printed without an amount, the one gap in the panel.

Named ingredients

Chicken 42.0% (Chicken Meal (21.0%), Chicken (18.8%)), Brown Rice (18.8%), Maize (9.2%), Beet Pulp (6.8%), Flaked Oats (6.4%), Sorghum (6.4%), Chicken Fat (3.0%), Salmon Oil, Brewers Yeast, Chicken Gravy (2.2%), Minerals, Egg, Potassium Chloride, Chicory Root Extract (a source of Prebiotic Fructooligosaccharides (0.2%)), Yeasts (as a source of Beta-glucans and Prebiotic Mannanoligosaccharide) (0.14%), Glucosamine (0.07%), Chondroitin Sulphate (0.055%), Yucca Extract (0.025%), Cranberry Extract (0.018%), Pomegranate Extract (0.009%), Green Tea Extract (0.009%)

Against the range

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

339.8 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

25%

Fat

13%

Fibre

3.5%

Ash

10%

Moisture

Dry weight

Protein

27.2%

Fat

14.1%

Fibre

3.8%

Ash

10.9%

Carbs

44%

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

45.1%

Carbs

47.6%

Veg

0.2%

Oils

4.7%

Other

2.4%

Pricing & size