Ava

Ava Wet Food Adult: Chicken Pâté review

Name: Ava Wet Food Adult: Chicken Pâté
Brand: Ava

58.2/100Good

WetAdult

Flavour

The everyday Ava tin, sold as three listings that are not quite the same dinner. The Chicken & Lamb tins and the chicken pâté name their animal at 46%, while the twelve-tin listing is chicken at 26% or white fish at 41%. Our scoring spreads them from Excellent to Average, so check which tin goes in the trolley.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Dogs that like a change of animal: chicken, white fish and lamb under one name
Owners who like the animal counted on the tin
Adult dogs from the smallest breeds to the giants
More water in the day, at 78% and 80% moisture
Joint extras in the everyday bowl. Glucosamine and chondroitin are on every recipe

Worth watching

A meat share that runs from 26% chicken to 46% depending on the tin
Brown rice, egg, chicken and fish oil across the range, so no tin can carry an elimination diet
Calcium between 3.1% and 4.36% of dry matter, heavy for adult maintenance

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

How this scores

How we score

58.2/100Good

Protein and processingAverage

Nutritional balanceExcellent

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults of every size. Pick the Chicken & Lamb multipack for the meatiest analysis; the twelve-tin listing needs the larger daily portion.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

Chicken 71.6
Chicken Pâté 58.2
Ava Wet Food Adult 42.3

Three recipes across Excellent and Good and Average. Typical wet food: Excellent.

Only the Chicken & Lamb multipack reaches the band adult wet food usually sits in, and the pâté scores lower on the same recipe.

What's in it

Chicken46%The same recipe as the multipack chicken tin.
Brown rice7%
Minerals, beet pulp, brewers yeast
Fish oilOmega 3 for skin, coat and joints.
Whole dried egg
Chicory root extract, yeasts0.040% and 0.028%The two prebiotics.
Glucosamine, chondroitin0.013% and 0.005%Printed with levels, for the joints.
Yucca, cranberry, green tea, pomegranate extracts0.005% down to 0.001%

Zinc at 16.05mg and copper at 2mg as chelates, with manganese, iodine and organic selenium, and vitamins A, D3 and E.

Calcium converts to 4.36% of dry matter, a heavy mineral load for adult maintenance.

Named ingredients

Chicken (46%), Brown Rice (7%), Minerals, Beet Pulp, Brewers Yeast, Fish Oil, Whole Dried Egg, Chicory Root Extract (as a source of Prebiotic Fructooligosaccharide) (0.040%), Yeasts (as a source of Beta-glucans and Prebiotic Mannanoligosaccharides) (0.028%), Glucosamine (0.013%), Chondroitin (0.005%), Yucca Extract (0.005%), Cranberry Extract (0.002%), Green Tea Extract (0.001%), Pomegranate Extract (0.001%)

Against the range

Recipe: 46% chicken, fish oil; Identical to the chicken tin in the Chicken & Lamb pack
Protein and processing: Average; Excellent on the multipack, with nothing in the recipe to separate them

The same dinner as the multipack chicken tin, bought one at a time.

Three listings with two kinds of dinner. The Chicken & Lamb tins and the pâté name their animal at 46% over brown rice at 7%, with fish oil. The twelve-tin listing is chicken at 26% or white fish at 41% over brown rice at 10%, with sunflower oil.

Every recipe finishes the same way: beet pulp, brewers yeast, whole dried egg, two prebiotics, glucosamine and chondroitin at printed levels, and a few plant extracts. Calcium runs high across the range, from 3.1% to 4.36% of dry matter.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

94.3 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

Fat

Fibre

0.2%

Ash

Moisture

78%

Dry weight

Protein

36.4%

Fat

22.7%

Fibre

0.9%

Ash

9.1%

Carbs

30.9%

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

47.6%

Added water

28.1%

Carbs

14.4%

Oils

1.3%

Other

8.5%

Pricing & size