Calibra

Calibra Dog Life Pouch Adult Chicken 10x150g review

Name: Calibra Dog Life Pouch Adult Chicken 10x150g
Brand: Calibra

78/100Excellent

WetAdult

One of the cleanest wet foods on the shelf for a dog working round a long list of exclusions. Chicken is the only animal, and with linseed in place of fish oil it is a rare fish-free pouch too. No botanicals, no joint extras, just one meat and a little support around it, in our Excellent band.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Dogs kept to one meat
Fish-free feeding: linseed carries the omega 3
A digestion that needs a gentle nudge from Plantago seed
Smaller dogs and light eaters, served fresh from a 150g pouch
Dogs kept low on starch

Worth watching

Brown rice, so grain is in
Plant omega 3 only, which is not what a fish oil delivers
Chicken is the commonest intolerance, so check your dog's history with poultry

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

How this scores

How we score

78/100Excellent

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueExcellent

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults of every size, though a 15kg dog needs more than six pouches a day. It suits smaller dogs best, where one pouch lands close to a meal.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

Calibra Dog Life Pouch Adult Chicken 10x150g 78.0

All one Excellent. Typical wet food: Excellent.

A very clean list and a meat-led analysis earn its place, with nothing clever on the front of the pack doing the work.

What's in it

Chicken65%Easy to digest and highly palatable. The only animal on the label.
Brown rice4%A whole grain, and the only cereal.
Minerals
Linseed oil0.2%Plant omega 3.
Plantago seedA soluble fibre of the psyllium family, for a digestion that runs loose.
Powdered beetroot juiceColour and a little sweetness.

Vitamins D3 and E with zinc, manganese, iodine and copper, each dosed per kilo; no vitamin A figure is printed.

Named ingredients

Chicken 65 %, brown rice 4 %, minerals, linseed oil 0.2 %, Plantago seed, powdered beetroot juice.

Against the range

A six-entry pouch with chicken at 65% and no second animal. Brown rice at 4% is the only cereal, linseed oil at 0.2% the omega 3, and Plantago seed adds soluble fibre. Carbohydrate converts to an estimated 6.3% of dry matter and calcium to 1.58%.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

89.4 kcal/100g

Protein

Fat

Fibre

0.8%

Ash

Moisture

81%

Dry weight

Protein

47.4%

Fat

31.6%

Fibre

4.2%

Ash

10.5%

Carbs

6.3%

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

65%

Added water

18.5%

Carbs

Veg

2.6%

Oils

0.2%

Other

9.7%

Pricing & size