Canine Choice

Canine Choice Adult Medium: Salmon review

Name: Canine Choice Adult Medium: Salmon
Brand: Canine Choice

71.4/100Excellent

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

71.4/100Excellent

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

Salmon

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 salmon38%Mostly water before cooking.
Dehydrated salmon17%Carries much of the finished kibble's protein.
Sweet potato, peas14%, 10%The starch; no grain anywhere in the range.
Hydrolysed salmon5%Natural flavour, the trick for keeping fussy eaters interested.
Apple pulp, dehydrated carrot, dehydrated cranberry3%, 0.32%, 0.08%
Chicken fat, pea proteinChicken reaches this bowl through the fat.
Brewer's yeast, mineralsNo separate fish oil; the salmon covers the omegas.
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 Salmon (38%), Dehydrated Salmon (17%), Sweet Potato (14%), Peas (10%), Hydrolyzed Salmon (5%), Apple Pulp (3%), Dehydrated Carrots (0.32% Equivalent To 3% of Carrots), Dehydrated Cranberries (0.08% Equivalent To 0.75% of Cranberries), Chicken Fat, Pea Protein, Brewer's Yeast, 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

Fish oil: None listed; On the chicken and lamb labels
Peas: 10%; Chicken 7.5%, lamb 7%
Carbohydrate, dry matter: 40.7%; The highest of the three, by a hair

The one to try for a dog that lights up for fish.

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

3.3%

Ash

7.3%

Dry weight

Protein

29.3%

Fat

18.5%

Fibre

3.6%

Ash

7.9%

Carbs

40.7%

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

26.1%

Veg

8.1%

Oils

1.6%

Other

4.1%

Pricing & size