Calibra

Calibra Verve Adult Cans: Chicken & Duck review

Name: Calibra Verve Adult Cans: Chicken & Duck
Brand: Calibra

70.7/100Excellent

DryAdult

Flavour

An Excellent-band kibble where the meat plainly outweighs everything else, around two thirds of the recipe by our estimate. Fresh chicken pairs with concentrated duck protein, so the animal share holds up once the oven has taken the water out. The additive table is long and every line of it is dosed.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Dogs that do well on poultry, with chicken and duck sharing the animal side
Grain-free feeding: potatoes at 12% and pumpkin carry the starch
Medium-breed adults, the size it is shaped for
Gut-focused feeding, with three prebiotics dosed on the label

Worth watching

Salmon oil and a hydrolysed poultry protein with no species, so neither fish free nor pinned to chicken and duck
Fat at 17%, which feeds generously on a dog that prefers the sofa

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

How this scores

How we score

70.7/100Excellent

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceGood

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueExcellent

The details

Dog fit

Listed for medium-breed adults. The label's own table asks 170 grams a day for a 15kg dog; start there and watch the waistline.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Medium

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

Salmon 82.0
Pork 80.6
Wild 80.2
Chicken 70.7

Four recipes across Outstanding and Excellent. Typical dry food: Good.

The evenness is the story: no weak corner drags the rest down.

What's in it

Fresh deboned chicken30%
Duck protein26%Dried, so it keeps its weight after cooking.
Potatoes12%Leads the grain-free starch.
Poultry fat
Hydrolysed poultry protein6%Flavour that dogs find hard to resist. No species named.
Pumpkin, peas4% each
Dried apple pulp, yeasts2%
Hydrolysed chicken liver2%More flavour engineering.
Salmon oil2%The marine omega 3.
Chicory root, rosehips, pineapple, prebiotics, glucosamine, chondroitin, yucca0.2% down to 100 mg/kgGlucosamine at 260 mg/kg and chondroitin sulphate at 160 mg/kg make the joint pair.

A full B-vitamin suite, vitamin C at 250 mg/kg and organic chelated trace minerals led by zinc at 90 mg/kg.

Named ingredients

Fresh deboned chicken (30 %), duck protein (26 %), potatoes (12 %), poultry fat, hydrolysed poultry protein (6 %), pumpkin (4 %), peas (4 %), apple pulp dried (2 %), yeasts, hydrolysed chicken liver (2 %), salmon oil (2 %), chicory root powder (0.2 %), rosehips dried (0.2 %), pineapple dried (0.1 %), prebiotics (mannan-oligosaccharides 150 mg/kg, β-glucans 120 mg/kg, fructo-oligosaccharides 100 mg/kg), glucosamine (260 mg/kg), chondroitine sulphate (160 mg/kg), Mojave yucca (100 mg/kg).

Against the range

One grain-free chicken and duck recipe. Fresh deboned chicken at 30% and dried duck protein at 26% share the animal side, potatoes and pumpkin carry the starch, and the vitamin, mineral, prebiotic and joint entries all carry doses.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

383 kcal/100g

Protein

30%

Fat

17%

Fibre

Ash

7.5%

Moisture

10%

Dry weight

Protein

33.3%

Fat

18.9%

Fibre

3.3%

Ash

8.3%

Carbs

36.2%

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

64%

Carbs

16%

Veg

6.4%

Oils

6.4%

Other

7.2%

Pricing & size