Calibra

Calibra Premium Line Adult Cans: Chicken & Beef review

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

44.1/100Average

WetAdult

Flavour

Big 1240g adult cans in four meat pairings, all in our Average band. The meat explains it: two animals get a name and a number, and everything else in the chunk mix gets a category. The analysis behind that is respectable for a wet food.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Several dogs fed at once. One can goes a long way
A change of meat without a change of recipe, across four pairings on one base
Dogs that eat by volume, as these cans are light in energy for their weight
Dogs already settled on classic chunk-style tins and doing well on them
Adult dogs of any size

Worth watching

Meat and animal derivatives makes up most of the chunk mix, so none of the four can support an elimination diet
Cereals unnamed, so the grain behind the word can change between batches
Various sugars on all four lists

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

How this scores

How we score

44.1/100Average

Protein and processingPoor

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyGood

ValueAverage

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults of every size. The label declares no calorie figure, so the 74 kcal per 100g we work from is our estimate: weigh the first few days' portions and watch the waistline.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Chicken

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 wet food: Excellent.

The analysis holds up well; the scores sit low because most of the meat is left as a category, and the liver and carrot can edges ahead on transparency.

What's in it

Meat and animal derivatives, in chunks62%A legal category: any part of any warm-blooded land animal, in any proportion.
Beef8%One of the two named animals, and the part the maker can be held to.
Chicken8%
CerealsNo grain named, so it can differ batch to batch.
Minerals
Various sugarsThere for taste. Declared honestly, at least.

A short, dosed panel of vitamins A, D3 and E with copper, zinc, manganese and iodine, the same on all four cans.

Chunk share printed as typically plus or minus 50% in the finished can, so the meat content moves inside that window.

Named ingredients

Meat and animal derivatives (62 % in chunks*, of which 8 % beef, 8 % chicken), cereals, minerals, various sugars. *Chunks typically ± 50 % in finished product.

Against the range

Named animals: Beef and chicken, 8% each; Lamb, veal or liver paired with chicken in the others.
Vegetables: None; Only the liver and carrot can declares one.
Analysis: Protein 43.2%, fat 21.6% dry matter; Identical on all four.

The most familiar pairing of the four, and the easiest sell to a dog with settled tastes.

All four cans share one base and one analysis panel: a chunk mix declared as meat and animal derivatives at 62%, two named animals at 8% each inside it, then cereals, minerals and various sugars. The pairings are flavour changes, not separate recipes. Only the chicken with liver can adds a vegetable, dried carrots. Protein converts to 43.2% of dry matter and fat to 21.6% on every can, and no calcium figure is printed.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

74.2 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

Fat

Fibre

0.5%

Ash

2.5%

Moisture

81.5%

Dry weight

Protein

43.2%

Fat

21.6%

Fibre

2.7%

Ash

13.5%

Carbs

19%

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

11.2%

Added water

30%

Carbs

56.7%

Other

Pricing & size