Canine Choice

Canine Choice Adult Medium: Chicken review

Name: Canine Choice Adult Medium: Chicken
Brand: Canine Choice

72/100Excellent

DryAdult

Flavour

A grain-free trio for middle-sized dogs, all three in our Excellent band, a step above the typical adult dry food. Each recipe pairs fresh meat with a dehydrated share, so the protein holds up once the water cooks off. It does the basics properly and keeps things simple.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Medium breed dogs, the frame the kibble and feeding guides are built around
Owners who keep cereal out of the bowl
Stiff or sporty dogs, with glucosamine at 300 mg/kg and chondroitin at 200 mg/kg
Households that swap flavours often, since the recipe underneath stays put

Worth watching

Chicken fat and fish in every flavour, so none works as an elimination diet for a dog avoiding either
No declared moisture: our dry-matter figures assume 8%

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

How this scores

How we score

72/100Excellent

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceGood

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueExcellent

The details

Dog fit

Listed for medium-breed adults. If you are choosing the lamb to keep chicken out, check the list first, as chicken fat is in it.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Medium

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

Lamb 74.7
Chicken 72.0
Salmon 71.4

All three Excellent. Typical dry food: Good.

The three finish close together, so choose by how your dog has got on with each meat.

What's in it

Fresh chicken38%Mostly water before cooking.
Dehydrated chicken17.5%Carries much of the finished kibble's protein.
Sweet potato, peas17%, 7.5%The starch; no grain anywhere in the range.
Hydrolysed chicken liver5%Natural flavour, the trick for keeping fussy eaters interested.
Apple pulp, dehydrated carrot, dehydrated cranberry5.5%, 0.32%, 0.8%
Chicken fat
Brewer's yeast, fish oil, mineralsFish oil for omega 3.
Chicory, MOSPrebiotic fibre.
Camomile, parsley, rosehips, sea algae, rosemary, cloves, yuccaSeasoning at trace level.
Glucosamine, cartilage (chondroitin)300 and 200 mg/kgDosed, not dusted.

Vitamins A, D3, E and C, with zinc, iron, copper, manganese, iodine and selenium in plain salt forms.

Named ingredients

Fresh Chicken (38%), Dehydrated Chicken (17.5%), Sweet Potato (17%), Peas (7.5%), Apple Pulp (5.5%), Hydrolyzed Chicken Liver (5%), Dehydrated Carrot (0.32% Equivalent To 3% Carrots), Dehydrated Cranberry (0.8% Equivalent To 0.75% Cranberries), Chicken Fat, Brewer's Yeast, Fish Oil, Minerals, Chicory (Source of FOS), Mannan-Oligosaccharides (MOS), Camomile, Parsley, Rosehips, Sea Algae, Rosemary, Cloves, Glucosamine (300 mg/kg), Cartilage (a Source of Chondroitin 200 mg/kg), Yucca Schidigera.

Against the range

Meat: 38% fresh, 17.5% dehydrated; Lamb 40% and 15%, salmon 38% and 17%
Protein, dry matter: 30.4%; 29.3% on the other two
Bag sizes: 1.5kg and 10kg; 10kg only

The one to start on if you want a small bag to try first.

The same skeleton sits under all three: a large fresh meat entry backed by a dehydrated share, hydrolysed liver or salmon at 5% for flavour. Sweet potato and peas carry the starch, and there is no grain anywhere. Chicken fat is the cooking fat in every recipe, and fish reaches every bowl too, as fish oil or as the salmon itself. Each label carries glucosamine and chondroitin at printed doses. Moisture is not declared, so dry-matter figures rest on an assumed 8%.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

385 kcal/100g

Protein

28%

Fat

17%

Fibre

3.3%

Ash

Dry weight

Protein

30.4%

Fat

18.5%

Fibre

3.6%

Ash

7.6%

Carbs

39.9%

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

60.5%

Carbs

24.5%

Veg

9.6%

Oils

1.9%

Other

3.6%

Pricing & size