Calibra

Calibra Life Junior Small & Medium Breed review

Name: Calibra Life Junior Small & Medium Breed
Brand: Calibra

68/100Good

DryPuppy

A clean, well built bag for a pup that gets on better with lamb than chicken, and Good on our reading. Lamb protein leads at 42% in dried form, so the share carries into the kibble largely as printed. Calcium is declared at 1.76% of dry matter, generous and well suited to a small or medium frame.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Puppies headed for a small or medium adult build
Pups who do better on red meat
Lively growing dogs, at 393 kcal per 100g against the 376 typical
Owners who want calcium printed
A label that numbers its small print, from three prebiotics to an inactivated Lactobacillus acidophilus culture

Worth watching

Poultry fat at 12% and hydrolysed chicken liver at 2%, so a poultry-reactive dog is not clear
Salmon oil at 2% adds fish
Rice twice, at 26% and as brewer's rice at 10%

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

How this scores

How we score

68/100Good

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceGood

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Listed for small and medium breed puppies. Large and giant pups are reared to a tighter calcium level, so keep this to the frames on the front of the bag.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Puppy

Breed size

Small, Medium

Main protein

Lamb

The score, in context

Calibra Life Junior Small & Medium Breed 68.0

All one Good. Typical dry food: Good.

The cereal keeps protein respectable rather than remarkable; what lifts it is a label that names and numbers nearly everything.

What's in it

Lamb protein42%Dried before weighing, so the share holds. Easily digested and a real change from poultry.
Rice26%
Poultry fat12%No bird named; kept stable with tocopherols.
Brewer's rice10%The smaller broken grain from milling.
Dried apple pulp3%Gentle fibre.
Yeasts
Hydrolysed chicken liver2%A palatant, and a second bird in a lamb-led bag.
Salmon oil2%The marine omega 3, and the reason fish is on the allergen picture.
Mannan-oligosaccharides, beta glucans, fructo-oligosaccharides150, 120, 100 mg/kgPrebiotics, each dosed.
Dried rosemary and thyme, Mojave yucca, inactivated Lactobacillus acidophilus250 mg/kg, 100 mg/kg

Vitamins in full, including C and the B group, with zinc, iron, manganese, copper and selenium in organic form, all dosed.

Calcium at 1.76% of dry matter suits small and medium bone, not a large-breed pup.

Named ingredients

Lamb protein (42 %), rice (26 %), poultry fat (12 %, preserved with tocopherols), brewer´s rice (10 %), 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

One lamb-led puppy bag for smaller frames. Dried lamb protein heads the list, rice in two forms carries the starch, and nearly every entry after that comes with a figure, down to the prebiotics in milligrams. Bird and fish both appear behind the lamb.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

393 kcal/100g

Protein

28%

Fat

18%

Fibre

2.5%

Ash

7.8%

Moisture

Dry weight

Protein

30.8%

Fat

19.8%

Fibre

2.7%

Ash

8.6%

Carbs

38.1%

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

44%

Carbs

36%

Veg

Oils

14%

Other

Pricing & size