Calibra

Calibra Life Adult Monoprotein Cans: Duck review

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

73.6/100Excellent

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

73.6/100Excellent

Protein and processingGood

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

Duck

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

Duck70%The one land animal in the can.
Rice4%One of two cans in the range with a cereal.
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.

Rice at 4% means this can is not grain free, unlike the beef, turkey and wild boar.

Named ingredients

Duck (70 %), rice (4 %), pea flour, lignocellulose, salmon oil (1 %), calcium carbonate.

Against the range

Companion at 4%: Rice; Shared with the lamb; the others use a fruit or carrots.
Protein, dry matter: 43.2%; Level with the beef and wild boar; 40.9% on the lamb and turkey.
Fat, dry matter: 29.5%; Second leanest after the lamb.

Middling on energy, which keeps portions moderate.

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

108.5 kcal/100g

Protein

9.5%

Fat

6.5%

Fibre

0.8%

Ash

Moisture

78%

Dry weight

Protein

43.2%

Fat

29.5%

Fibre

3.6%

Ash

9.1%

Carbs

14.6%

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

10.8%

Oils

Other

3.2%

Pricing & size