Calibra

Calibra Life Adult Pouches: Chicken with Rice review

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

71.4/100Excellent

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

71.4/100Excellent

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

Chicken

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

Chicken40%
Chicken hearts30%Dense, palatable organ meat from the same bird.
Rice4%
Pea flourA plant protein, no percentage given.
LignocelluloseA purified fibre.
Salmon oil1%Brings fish into the can.
Calcium carbonate

The fuller of the two panels, with vitamins A, D3, E and B1, biotin, and zinc, manganese, iodine, copper and iron.

Salmon oil at 1% means this one is not fish free.

Named ingredients

Chicken (40 %), chicken hearts (30 %), rice (4 %), pea flour, lignocellulose, salmon oil (1 %), calcium carbonate.

Against the range

Meat: Chicken and chicken hearts, 70%; Beef 65% in the pouch.
Fat, dry matter: 27.3%; 31.6% on the beef.
Carbohydrate, dry matter: 16.8%; 6.3% on the beef.
Fish oil: Salmon oil 1%; None in the beef.

The one for organ meat and a fuller vitamin panel.

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

104.5 kcal/100g

Protein

Fat

Fibre

0.8%

Ash

2.5%

Moisture

78%

Dry weight

Protein

40.9%

Fat

27.3%

Fibre

3.6%

Ash

11.4%

Carbs

16.8%

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