Ava

Ava Sensitive Skin and Stomach Adult: White Fish review

Name: Ava Sensitive Skin and Stomach Adult: White Fish
Brand: Ava

58.2/100Good

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

58.2/100Good

Protein and processingAverage

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

Fish

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

Fish: freshly prepared white fish, white fish meal, fish stock38.5%Split 19%, 17% and 2.5%.
Sweet potato31%The larger starch share here.
Tapioca12%
Beet pulp8%
Brewers yeast
Rapeseed oil, salmon oilEvery animal ingredient, the oil included, is fish.
Chicory root extract, yeasts0.16% and 0.11%Prebiotics.
Yucca extract, glucosamine, chondroitin0.2% down to 0.015%
Cranberry, green tea, pomegranate extracts0.01% down to 0.005%

Vitamins A, D3 and E, added DL-methionine, and zinc, manganese and copper as chelates with iodine.

Named ingredients

Fish (38.5%) (Freshly Prepared White Fish 19%, White Fish Meal 17%, Fish Stock 2.5%), Sweet Potato (31%), Tapioca (12%), Beet Pulp (8%), Brewers Yeast, Rapeseed Oil, Salmon Oil, Chicory Root Extract (as a source of prebiotic fructooligosaccharides) (0.16%), Yeasts (as a source of prebiotic mannanoligosaccharides) (0.11%), Yucca Extract (0.2%), Glucosamine (0.02%), Chondroitin (0.015%), Cranberry Extract (0.01%), Green Tea Extract (0.005%), Pomegranate Extract (0.005%)

Against the range

Animals on the label: Fish only; Chicken plus salmon oil in the other bag.
Fat, as fed: 10.0%; 15.5% on the chicken.
Starch lead: Sweet potato 31%; Tapioca leads the chicken bag.

The safer first try for a dog that has reacted to chicken, and the one for a fish-based trial.

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

350 kcal/100g

Protein

23%

Fat

10%

Fibre

3.5%

Ash

7.5%

Moisture

Dry weight

Protein

25%

Fat

10.9%

Fibre

3.8%

Ash

8.2%

Carbs

52.1%

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

36%

Added water

2.5%

Carbs

51%

Veg

0.2%

Oils

5.2%

Other

5.2%