Ava

Ava Wet Food Adult Weight Management review

Name: Ava Wet Food Adult Weight Management
Brand: Ava

46.1/100Average

WetAdult

Ava's lightest tin, drawn up to fill a dog without loading the calories, and it reads Average on our scoring. Chicken leads at 26%, brown rice follows at 10%, and L-carnitine joins the added panel. On its own terms it does exactly the job it was built for.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Dogs on a weight programme: about a fifth lighter per gram than typical adult wet food
Owners who like a bowl that still looks generous
A low-fat dinner, with fat at 15.0% of dry matter
Stiff joints, with glucosamine and chondroitin at declared levels
Several dogs, toy breeds through to giants, on one tin

Worth watching

Chicken the only named meat, with minerals, beet pulp and yeast filling much of the rest
Carbohydrate estimated at 44.0% of dry matter against 15.8% typical
Calcium at 3.1% of dry matter, worth raising at the next check-up

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

How this scores

How we score

46.1/100Average

Protein and processingAverage

Nutritional balanceAverage

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueAverage

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults of every size. Chicken, egg and grain all appear, so it is no help for an elimination diet.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

Ava Wet Food Adult Weight Management 46.1

All one Average. Typical wet food: Excellent.

It reads below where adult wet food tends to sit, which is the price of a tin built to carry fewer calories per gram.

What's in it

Chicken26%The only named meat. Palatable and easy on most digestions.
Brown rice10%Doing much of the filling.
MineralsHigh on the list, and calcium follows.
Beet pulp, brewers yeast
Sunflower oil
Whole dried eggThe only other animal ingredient.
Chicory root extract, yeasts0.040%, 0.028%Prebiotics for the friendly gut bacteria.
Glucosamine, chondroitin0.025%, 0.010%
Yucca, cranberry, green tea, pomegranate extracts0.005% down to 0.001%

L-carnitine at 25mg for fat handling, with chelated zinc, copper and manganese and selenised yeast; carrageenan and guar gum set the pâté.

Calcium at 3.1% of dry matter is a generous load for adult maintenance.

Named ingredients

Chicken (26%), Brown Rice (10%), Minerals, Beet Pulp, Brewers Yeast, Sunflower Oil, Whole Dried Egg, Chicory Root Extract (as a source of Prebiotic Fructooligosaccharide) (0.040%), Yeasts (as a source of Beta-glucans and Prebiotic Mannanoligosaccharide) (0.028%), Glucosamine (0.025%), Chondroitin (0.010%), Yucca Extract (0.005%), Cranberry Extract (0.002%), Green Tea Extract (0.001%), Pomegranate Extract (0.001%)

Against the range

One chicken tin with brown rice, trimmed of fat and protein and carrying L-carnitine. The trace elements are chelated, and a long tail of prebiotics, joint entries and plant extracts is dosed to the thousandth of a percent.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

77.3 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

Fat

Fibre

0.2%

Ash

Moisture

80%

Dry weight

Protein

30%

Fat

15%

Fibre

Ash

10%

Carbs

44%

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

30.2%

Added water

15%

Carbs

29.3%

Oils

3.5%

Other

22%

Pricing & size