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Ava Health & Vitality Cockapoo Wet: Puppy Chicken Pâté review

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

62.7/100Good

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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

62.7/100Good

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

Puppy

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, with a printed percentage.
Sweet potato8%
Sunflower oil3.2%Lifted for a growing dog.
Cellulose fibre0.9%Refined fibre, added for bulk.
Fish oil0.7%Omega 3 for growth, and a second animal on the label.
Tapioca starch, yeast extract, minerals
Yeast, chicory root extract0.055%, 0.02%Prebiotics for the gut flora.
Yucca, cranberry, green tea, pomegranate extracts0.005% down to 0.001%

Vitamins A and E with taurine, and trace minerals chelated on protein hydrolysates, zinc at 37.6mg first.

Calcium converts to 1.74% of dry matter, pitched at a small to medium puppy and not a large-breed one.

Named ingredients

Chicken (35%), Sweet Potato (8%), Sunflower Oil (3.2%), Cellulose Fibre (0.9%), Fish Oil (0.7%) Tapioca Starch, Yeast Extract, Minerals, 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: 0.7%; None on the adult.
Fat, dry matter: 36.5%; 35.0% on the adult.
Energy: 115 kcal per 100g; 109 on the adult.
Pouch: 85 g; 140 g on the adult.

Richer than the adult, which is sensible for a dog still growing.

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

115 kcal/100g

Protein

Fat

8.4%

Fibre

Ash

1.6%

Moisture

77%

Dry weight

Protein

34.8%

Fat

36.5%

Fibre

4.3%

Ash

Carbs

17.4%

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

31.3%

Carbs

Oils

3.9%

Other

21.8%

Pricing & size