Ava

Ava Sensitive Skin and Stomach Adult: Chicken review

Name: Ava Sensitive Skin and Stomach Adult: Chicken
Brand: Ava

68.8/100Good

DryAdult

Flavour

A grain-free pair for dogs whose skin or digestion complains at the slightest excuse, both in our Good band. Each bag is built round one lead protein, chicken or white fish. The labels print every split and dose, which is exactly what you want from a food sold on sensitivity.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Touchy digestion. The list is short and the starch is tapioca and sweet potato
Itchy or dull-coated dogs, with salmon oil and chelated zinc in both
Homes steering round grain: neither bag has any cereal
Dogs kept off land meat entirely, via the white fish bag

Worth watching

Salmon oil in the chicken bag too, so neither is fish free
Chicken is a common trigger in sensitive dogs, so start with the white fish if chicken has caused trouble

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

How this scores

How we score

68.8/100Good

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceAverage

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adult dogs of every size. Pick the bag by what your dog has reacted to before: fish if chicken has been the problem.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

Chicken 68.8
White Fish 58.2

All two Good. Typical dry food: Good.

The chicken finishes the higher of the two on clean labelling and a large named protein share, with nothing exotic creating the gap.

What's in it

Chicken: chicken meal, chicken, chicken fat, chicken gravy48%Split 20.5%, 19%, 6% and 2.5%. The meal does the heavy lifting once baking drives off the water.
Tapioca20%Close to pure starch, chosen because it is bland and rarely upsets anything.
Sweet potato18.5%Brings fibre and micronutrients.
Beet pulp6%Gentle fermentable fibre.
Brewers' yeast, minerals
Salmon oilThe skin and coat engine, and fish in a chicken bag.
Chicory root extract, yeasts0.16% and 0.11%Two prebiotics.
Yucca extract, glucosamine, chondroitin0.02% down to 0.015%Joint entries at trace level.
Cranberry, green tea, pomegranate extracts0.01% down to 0.005%A small antioxidant flourish.

Vitamins A, D3 and E, with zinc, manganese and copper as chelates, iodine, and selenium from inactivated yeast.

Salmon oil means a chicken-only elimination trial cannot be run on this bag.

Named ingredients

Chicken (48%) (Chicken Meal 20.5%, Chicken 19%, Chicken Fat 6%, Chicken Gravy 2.5%), Tapioca (20%), Sweet Potato (18.5%), Beet Pulp (6%), Brewers' Yeast, Salmon Oil, Minerals, Chicory Root Extract (as a source of Prebiotic Fructooligosaccharide) (0.16%), Yeasts (as a source of Beta-glucans and Prebiotic Mannanoligosaccharide) (0.11%), Yucca Extract (0.02%), Glucosamine (0.02%), Chondroitin (0.015%), Cranberry Extract (0.01%), Green Tea Extract (0.005%), Pomegranate Extract (0.005%)

Against the range

Meat: Chicken 48%; 38.5% fish in the other bag.
Fat, as fed: 15.5%; 10.0% on the white fish.
Carbohydrate, dry matter: 46.3%; 52.1% on the white fish.

The natural first pick where the stomach, not the protein, is the problem.

Both bags share one construction: one lead protein with its split printed, then tapioca and sweet potato in place of grain, with beet pulp behind. Chicory root extract and yeast-derived MOS give two prebiotics, glucosamine and chondroitin appear at trace level, and cranberry, green tea and pomegranate extracts close the list.

Salmon oil is in both, and the trace minerals arrive mostly as chelates, zinc at 64.2 mg per kilo. Carbohydrate runs from 46.3% to 52.1% of dry matter.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

379.2 kcal/100g

Protein

23.5%

Fat

15.5%

Fibre

3.5%

Ash

Moisture

Dry weight

Protein

25.5%

Fat

16.8%

Fibre

3.8%

Ash

7.6%

Carbs

46.3%

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

45.5%

Added water

2.5%

Carbs

44.5%

Veg

0.2%

Oils

2.2%

Other

5.1%