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Ava Health & Vitality Cockapoo Wet: Adult Chicken Pâté review

Name: Ava Health & Vitality Cockapoo Wet: Adult Chicken Pâté
Brand: Ava

63.8/100Good

WetAdult

Flavour

Two chicken pâtés that cover a cockapoo's whole life, one for puppies and one for adults, both in our Good band. The adult recipe is the unusual one: apart from the chicken, no other animal ingredient appears anywhere on its list. Percentages run down to 0.001%.

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Our view

Likely to suit

A puppy and an adult under one roof, as the two recipes differ mainly in richness
Small and medium dogs, the build both pâtés are portioned and dosed for
Dogs that do best on one named meat
Cereal-free feeding, with sweet potato and tapioca carrying the starch
Fussy eaters. A soft pâté is easy to mix through and easy to warm a little
Owners who like every oil named

Worth watching

Meat stops at 35% chicken, with starch, water and refined fibre making up much of the rest
Mineral chelates on protein hydrolysates the label never names, one more thing for a strict elimination diet
Chicken itself: a cockapoo that itches on chicken elsewhere will itch on it here

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

How this scores

How we score

63.8/100Good

Protein and processingAverage

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Listed for small and medium dogs, one recipe for puppies and one for adults. Most cockapoos weigh well under 15kg, and the label asks 420 to 560 grams a day of the adult pâté for a dog of 8 to 11kg.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Small, Medium

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

Adult Chicken Pâté 63.8
Puppy Chicken Pâté 62.7

All two Good. Typical wet food: Excellent.

The declaration is thorough on both, and what holds them a band below the typical wet food is how much of each pouch is meat.

What's in it

Chicken35%Fresh and the only animal ingredient on the list.
Sweet potato8%Brings fibre and vitamins along with its starch.
Sunflower oil2.6%
Cellulose fibre0.9%Refined plant fibre for bulk and stool structure, with no nutrition to speak of.
Tapioca starchCassava starch, and little else.
Yeast extract, minerals
Olive oil0.3%Good for coat condition, and a source of vitamin E.
Yeast, chicory root extract0.055%, 0.02%Prebiotics: MOS and beta-glucans, then FOS.
Yucca, cranberry, green tea, pomegranate extracts0.005% down to 0.001%

Vitamins A and E with taurine and L-carnitine at 320mg, and trace minerals chelated on protein hydrolysates, zinc at 37.6mg heading the list.

Named ingredients

Chicken (35%), Sweet Potato (8%), Sunflower Oil (2.6%), Cellulose Fibre (0.9%), Tapioca Starch, Yeast Extract, Minerals, Olive Oil (0.3%), 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%), Green Tea Extract (0.001%), Pomegranate Extract (0.001%)

Against the range

Fish oil: None; The puppy pâté adds 0.7%.
Oils: Sunflower 2.6%, olive 0.3%; Sunflower 3.2% and no olive on the puppy.
Energy: 109 kcal per 100g; 115 on the puppy.
Calcium, dry matter: 1.0%; 1.74% on the puppy.

With chicken the only animal on the list, this is the cleaner choice for a household avoiding fish.

Both pâtés put chicken at 35% with sweet potato at 8% behind it, and tapioca starch and cellulose fibre at 0.9% fill out much of the rest. No cereal appears on either label. Both print their own energy figure and dose the additive panel throughout.

The oils are what vary. The adult carries sunflower oil and a little olive oil and no fish at all; the puppy drops the olive oil and adds fish oil at 0.7%. Both run rich in fat for a wet food, at 35.0% and 36.5% of dry matter.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

109 kcal/100g

Protein

Fat

7.7%

Fibre

Ash

1.3%

Moisture

78%

Dry weight

Protein

36.4%

Fat

35%

Fibre

4.5%

Ash

5.9%

Carbs

18.2%

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

31.9%

Carbs

22.4%

Oils

2.9%

Other

7.9%

Pricing & size