Calibra

Calibra Life Adult Pouches: Beef with Rice review

Name: Calibra Life Adult Pouches: Beef with Rice
Brand: Calibra

70.3/100Excellent

WetAdult

Flavour

Two quite different dinners sharing a name, both in our Excellent band. The beef pouch keeps to a single animal at 65%; the chicken can puts muscle meat and heart from the same bird together at 70%. Both lists are short enough to read in one go.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Dogs kept to one animal. The beef recipe has no other
Small dogs and light eaters, with the beef in 150g pouches
Owners after organ meat: chicken hearts at 30% in the can
Dogs fine with a little gentle grain, rice at 4% in both
A short list, neither recipe running past a handful of entries

Worth watching

Salmon oil at 1% on the chicken label, so only the beef stays single animal
A shorter added panel on the beef, with no vitamin A or iron
Pea flour and lignocellulose on the chicken list, without percentages

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

How this scores

How we score

70.3/100Excellent

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueExcellent

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults of every size. The beef is light at 89 kcal per 100g, so the daily amount runs well past what one pouch suggests: weigh it against your dog's needs before ordering.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Beef

The score, in context

Chicken 71.4
Beef 70.3

All two Excellent. Typical wet food: Excellent.

A printed meat share at the head of a short list carries both, and the plant entries doing a job more than feeding the dog are the shared limit.

What's in it

Beef65%The entire animal content.
Brown rice4%The only cereal.
Minerals
Linseed oil0.2%Plant omega 3. No fish oil anywhere.
Plantago seedGentle soluble fibre, the kind psyllium is known for.
Powdered beetroot juiceColour and a little natural sweetness.

A short panel: vitamins D3 and E with zinc, manganese, iodine and copper.

No vitamin A or iron on the added panel, unlike the chicken can.

Named ingredients

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

Against the range

Meat: Beef 65%, one animal; Chicken 40% with hearts 30%, plus salmon oil.
Protein, dry matter: 47.4%; 40.9% on the chicken.
Energy: 89 kcal per 100g; 104 on the chicken.
Format: 150g pouch; 400g can.

The cleaner of the two for a dog that must keep to one animal.

Two recipes under one name: beef in a 150g pouch and chicken in a 400g can. Each opens on a high, printed meat share, carries rice at 4% and declares calcium, at 1.58% of dry matter for the beef and 1.36% for the chicken. The supporting entries and the added panels differ more than the name suggests.

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