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Calibra Dog Premium Line Beef 12x1240g review

Name: Calibra Dog Premium Line Beef 12x1240g
Brand: Calibra

43.3/100Average

WetAdult

A catering-size beef tin, 1240g of traditional chunks at a time, sitting in our Average band. It lands there because the label names so little of the recipe, with beef the one animal pinned down. Nothing in the tin itself is troubling.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Households feeding several dogs at once, as one tin covers a lot of bowls
Big dogs, where one large tin beats a row of small ones
Dogs that like a generous, filling dinner. Each gram carries less energy than most wet food
Beef eaters
Dogs that drink sparingly, as most of the bowl arrives as moisture

Worth watching

Beef at 8% inside meat and animal derivatives, so this tin cannot anchor an elimination diet
Cereals unnamed and various sugars on the list
No energy figure declared, so the 75 kcal per 100g is our estimate

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

How this scores

How we score

43.3/100Average

Protein and processingPoor

Nutritional balanceExcellent

TransparencyGood

ValueAverage

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adult dogs of every size. The light energy density means the daily amount looks large, so weigh the first few portions against your dog's condition.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Beef

The score, in context

Calibra Dog Premium Line Beef 12x1240g 43.3

All one Average. Typical wet food: Excellent.

The placing is a labelling story more than a nutrition one, and it says nothing about safety: tins built like this have fed dogs happily for decades.

What's in it

Meat and animal derivatives68% in chunksAny part of any warm-blooded land animal, in any proportion. The chunk figure carries a tolerance of plus or minus 50% in the finished tin.
Of which beef8%The one animal figure you can hold the maker to.
CerealsNo grain named, so it can change while the label stays the same.
Vegetable protein extractsSome of the protein is plant protein, which dogs make less of than meat protein.
Minerals
Various sugarsAdded for taste, and uncommon on a wet label.

Vitamins A, D3 and E with copper, zinc, manganese and iodine, each dosed, but no calcium figure anywhere.

Named ingredients

Meat and animal derivatives (68 % in chunks*, of which 8 % beef), cereals, vegetable protein extracts, minerals, various sugars. *Chunks typically ± 50 % in finished product

Against the range

One beef recipe in a catering-size tin. Beef at 8% is the only entry with its own figure, inside a chunk mix declared as meat and animal derivatives at 68%. Cereals, vegetable protein extracts, minerals and various sugars make up the rest.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

75 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

Fat

3.8%

Fibre

0.5%

Ash

Moisture

81.5%

Dry weight

Protein

37.8%

Fat

20.5%

Fibre

2.7%

Ash

10.8%

Carbs

28.2%

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

9.7%

Added water

30%

Carbs

59.3%

Other

Pricing & size