Calibra

Calibra Life Adult Monoprotein Cans: Beef review

Name: Calibra Life Adult Monoprotein Cans: Beef
Brand: Calibra

77.1/100Excellent

WetAdult

Flavour

Five single-animal cans in our Excellent band, each holding its meat at 70% with very little on top. Only the animal and one 4% companion change from can to can, which makes rotating proteins simple. Wild boar is the unusual one.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Dogs kept on one meat. Each can names a single land animal
Rotating proteins, with five cans built to one pattern
A dog that has worked through the everyday meats, thanks to the wild boar
Grain-avoiding homes: the beef, turkey and wild boar carry no cereal
Adults of every size, toy to giant

Worth watching

Salmon oil at 1% on all five, so none is fish free
Rice at 4% in the duck and the lamb
Pea flour high on every list with no percentage, so the plant share cannot be read off the label

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

How this scores

How we score

77.1/100Excellent

Protein and processingExcellent

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueExcellent

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adult dogs of every size. Settle on the animal your dog tolerates first, then check the 4% companion if grain is off your list.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Beef

The score, in context

Wild Boar 77.7
Beef 77.1
Turkey 77.0
Duck 73.6
Lamb 73.4

All five Excellent. Typical wet food: Excellent.

The gaps between the five are small, so the choice really comes down to which animal suits your dog.

What's in it

Beef70%The one land animal in the can.
Carrots4%The only vegetable companion in the range.
Pea flourPlant protein, iron and fibre, with no percentage printed.
LignocellulosePurified plant fibre for bulk. Almost nothing in the way of nutrition.
Salmon oil1%Marine omega 3, and the reason the can is not fish free.
Calcium carbonate

Vitamins A, D3, E and B1 with biotin, zinc, manganese, iodine, copper and iron, every one with a printed dose.

Named ingredients

Beef (70 %), carrots (4 %), pea flour, lignocellulose, salmon oil (1 %), calcium carbonate.

Against the range

Companion at 4%: Carrots; Apples, cranberries, or rice on the duck and lamb.
Fat, dry matter: 34.1%; 27.3% on the lamb up to 36.4% on the wild boar.
Energy: 114 kcal per 100g; 107 to 118 kcal across the five.

A grain-free beef can on the richer side of the range.

Every can holds one named land animal at 70%, with nothing else above 4%. That 4% companion is the main difference: carrots with the beef, apples with the turkey, cranberries with the wild boar and rice with the duck and the lamb. Pea flour, lignocellulose, salmon oil at 1% and calcium carbonate finish every list.

In dry matter, protein runs from 40.9% to 43.2% and fat from 27.3% to 36.4%. Calcium converts to 1.36% throughout, and the vitamin and mineral panel is the same on all five.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

114 kcal/100g

Protein

9.5%

Fat

7.5%

Fibre

0.8%

Ash

1.8%

Moisture

78%

Dry weight

Protein

43.2%

Fat

34.1%

Fibre

3.6%

Ash

8.2%

Carbs

10.9%

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

70%

Added water

15%

Carbs

6.8%

Veg

Oils

Other

3.2%

Pricing & size