Canine Choice

Canine Choice Adult Medium: Lamb review

Name: Canine Choice Adult Medium: Lamb
Brand: Canine Choice

74.7/100Excellent

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

74.7/100Excellent

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

Lamb

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 lamb40%Mostly water before cooking.
Dehydrated lamb15%Carries much of the finished kibble's protein.
Sweet potato, peas13.5%, 7%The starch; no grain anywhere in the range.
Hydrolysed lamb liver5%Natural flavour, the trick for keeping fussy eaters interested.
Apple pulp, dehydrated carrot, dehydrated cranberry5%, 0.32%, 0.08%
Chicken fat, pea proteinChicken reaches this bowl through the 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. A Bacillus subtilis probiotic is printed on this label only.

Chicken fat is on the list, so lamb here does not keep chicken out of the bowl.

Named ingredients

Fresh lamb (40%), dehydrated lamb (15%), sweet potato (13.5%), peas (7%), hydrolyzed lamb liver (5%), apple pulp (5%), dehydrated carrot (0.32% equivalent to 3% carrots), dehydrated cranberry (0.08% equivalent to 0.75% cranberries),chicken fat, pea protein, 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

Fresh meat: 40%; 38% on the other two
Probiotic: Bacillus subtilis; Not printed on the others
Carbohydrate, dry matter: 40.5%; Chicken 39.9%, salmon 40.7%

A natural pick for a dog that finds poultry-led foods hard work, so long as the chicken fat is not a problem.

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

27%

Fat

17%

Fibre

3.25%

Ash

7.5%

Dry weight

Protein

29.3%

Fat

18.5%

Fibre

3.5%

Ash

8.2%

Carbs

40.5%

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%

Carbs

22.9%

Veg

10.5%

Oils

2.3%

Other

4.2%

Pricing & size