Calibra

Calibra Life Junior Medium Breed review

Name: Calibra Life Junior Medium Breed
Brand: Calibra

70.3/100Excellent

DryPuppy

A chicken led growth kibble with a tidy, fully itemised label. Calcium is declared and converts to 1.43% of dry matter, comfortably inside what growing bone works to. The prebiotic entries carry milligram doses where most labels give a name and a shrug. It lands in our Excellent band.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Medium breed puppies, the build the recipe is written around
Owners who read the calcium line first
Pups who never seem to run down: 398 kcal per 100g against a typical 376
Dogs that do well on chicken
Gut support written in figures, from mannan-oligosaccharides at 150 mg/kg down

Worth watching

Poultry fat and hydrolysed poultry protein name no bird
Salmon oil at 2%, for a household avoiding fish
Energy dense, so a calmer pup wants its portions weighed

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

How this scores

How we score

70.3/100Excellent

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceGood

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueExcellent

The details

Dog fit

Listed for medium breed puppies. The ration climbs as your pup grows, so use the bag's chart for the current weight and let your pup's shape have the final word.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Puppy

Breed size

Medium

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

Calibra Life Junior Medium Breed 70.3

All one Excellent. Typical dry food: Good.

A strong mainstream growth kibble: the label and the value lift it, while a starch share level with the category keeps the nutrition readings on Good.

What's in it

Chicken protein42%Dried and concentrated, with the water already gone, so the share holds.
Rice24%
Poultry fat12%Preserved with tocopherols. No bird named.
Brewer's rice7%The broken grain left from milling, much the same nutritionally and easy on a puppy's digestion.
Hydrolysed poultry protein5%Again no species, the line that decides an elimination diet.
Dried apple pulp, yeasts3% (apple)Gentle fibre.
Hydrolysed chicken liver2%A palatant.
Salmon oil2%The long chain omega 3s.
Prebiotics (MOS, beta glucans, FOS)150, 120 and 100 mg/kgEach with a weight you can check.
Rosemary and thyme, Mojave yucca, inactivated Lactobacillus acidophilus250 and 100 mg/kg

Every vitamin and trace mineral carries a figure, with zinc, iron, manganese, copper and selenium in organic forms.

Named ingredients

Chicken protein (42 %), rice (24 %), poultry fat (12 %, preserved with tocopherols), brewer´s rice, (7 %), hydrolysed poultry protein (5 %), apple pulp dried (3 %), yeasts, hydrolysed chicken liver (2 %), salmon oil (2 %), prebiotics (mannan-oligosaccharides 150 mg/kg, β-glucans 120 mg/kg, fructo-oligosaccharides 100 mg/kg), dried rosemary & thyme (250 mg/kg), Mojave yucca (100 mg/kg), Lactobacillus acidophilus HA - 122 inactivated (15 × 109 cells/kg).

Against the range

Dried chicken protein opens the list at 42%, so the figure survives into the kibble close to as printed. Rice and brewer's rice carry the starch, poultry fat and salmon oil the fat, and the prebiotics come with milligram doses.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

398 kcal/100g

Protein

29%

Fat

18%

Fibre

2.8%

Ash

5.8%

Moisture

Dry weight

Protein

31.9%

Fat

19.8%

Fibre

3.1%

Ash

6.4%

Carbs

38.8%

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

49%

Carbs

25.6%

Veg

Oils

14%

Other

8.4%

Pricing & size