Calibra

Calibra Premium Line Adult Cans: Beef review

Name: Calibra Premium Line Adult Cans: Beef
Brand: Calibra

63/100Good

DryAdult

Flavour

A beef-led everyday kibble in our Good band, whatever the word Cans in its name suggests: it comes by the bag. Dried beef protein opens the list at 30%, on a corn and oat base. The extras are small but real, including a joint pair with its doses printed.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Adult dogs of any size on an ordinary day's activity
Dogs that do well on beef
A few functional touches in a plain food: kelp, brewer's yeast, glucosamine and chondroitin
Multi-dog homes feeding assorted sizes from one bag, as the chart spans 5kg to 90kg

Worth watching

Corn second on the list with no percentage given
Chicken liver as a palatant and poultry fat unnamed to a bird
Salmon oil at 1%, still fish for a dog excluded from it

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

How this scores

How we score

63/100Good

Protein and processingAverage

Nutritional balanceGood

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults of every size. Fat runs lively at 386 kcal per 100g, so quieter dogs need the scoop watched.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Beef

The score, in context

Beef 63.0
Chicken 49.4
Chicken 44.1
Lamb 44.1
Veal 44.1

Five recipes across Good and Average. Typical dry food: Good.

Nothing done badly and a great deal set out plainly, with transparency the strongest pillar.

What's in it

Beef protein30%Goes in already dried, so it carries most of the protein.
CornSecond on the list with no share declared.
Oats22%
Poultry fat6%No bird named.
Dried apple pulp, brewer's yeast3%Yeast for B vitamins.
Hydrolysed chicken liver2%The palatant, and the chicken in a beef food.
Salmon oil1%
Carrots, peas, parsley, kelp1% down to 0.4%Kelp is a natural iodine source.
Glucosamine, chondroitin sulphateDosed at 260 mg/kg and 160 mg/kg.
MOS, FOS, yucca, beta glucans

A complete vitamin and trace mineral pack, every dose printed, preserved with tocopherols and rosemary extract.

Named ingredients

Beef protein 30 %, corn, oats 22 %, poultry fat 6 %, dried apple pulp 3 %, brewer's yeast, hydrolysed chicken liver 2 %, salmon oil 1 %, carrots 1 %, peas 1 %, dried parsley 0.5 %, dried kelp 0.4 % (Ascophyllum nodosum), glucosamine (260 mg/kg), chondroitine sulphate (160 mg/kg), mannan-oligosaccharides (150 mg/kg), fructo-oligosaccharides (80 mg/kg), Mojave yucca (80 mg/kg), β-glucans (40 mg/kg).

Against the range

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

386.5 kcal/100g

Protein

26%

Fat

15%

Fibre

2.2%

Ash

Moisture

Dry weight

Protein

28.6%

Fat

16.5%

Fibre

2.4%

Ash

5.5%

Carbs

47%

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

32%

Carbs

40.6%

Veg

4.4%

Oils

Other

16%

Pricing & size