Canine Choice

Canine Choice Premium Adult: Chicken & Rice review

Name: Canine Choice Premium Adult: Chicken & Rice
Brand: Canine Choice

64.1/100Good

DryAdult

Flavour

Canine Choice's rice-and-barley adult range: three recipes, each kept to a single named animal at 40%, with familiar grains doing the carrying. Chicken, lamb and turkey all pair 26% dried meat with 14% freshly prepared. All three sit in our Good band.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Dogs kept to one animal; each recipe names a single species from the meat down to the fat
A chicken-sensitive dog, on the lamb or turkey version
Fish-free homes. Linseed covers the omegas
Multi-dog homes spanning sizes, toy to giant

Worth watching

Barley brings gluten, worth knowing in a strictly gluten-free house
Carbohydrate around 47% of dry matter, a touch above usual, so portion with an eye on the waistline
Plant omega 3 converts slowly; give skin and coat a few weeks to answer

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

How this scores

How we score

64.1/100Good

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceAverage

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adult dogs of every size. Energy differs across the three recipes, so recheck the daily amount when switching between them.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

Chicken 64.1
Turkey 63.1
Lamb 61.2

All three Good. Typical dry food: Good.

All three earn their place on sensible construction, with the meat share declared and the extras dosed in print.

What's in it

Dried chicken26%Water already gone, so it carries several times the protein of fresh, gram for gram.
Freshly prepared chicken14%For palatability.
Rice30%
Barley15%Brings gluten with it.
Peas5%
Chicken fat5%The only recipe with an animal fat.
Beet pulp3%
Linseed1%The only omega source, a plant one, which keeps the range fish free.
Chicory FOS, MOS1000mg/kg eachA properly dosed prebiotic pair.
Turmeric, parsley, yucca, dried cranberry100mg/kg eachGarnish, honestly numbered.

A standard panel, with part of the zinc as a chelate, the form a dog's gut absorbs more easily.

Moisture is not declared, so the dry-matter figures are calculated on an assumed basis.

Named ingredients

40% Chicken (dried chicken 26%, freshly prepared chicken 14%), rice (30%), barley (15%), peas (5%), chicken fat (5%), beet pulp (3%), linseed (1%), minerals, chicory (source of prebiotic FOS) (1000mg/kg), mannanoligosaccharides (source of prebiotic MOS) (1000mg/kg), turmeric (100mg/kg), parsley (100mg/kg), yucca (100mg/kg), dried cranberry (100mg/kg).

Against the range

Fat source: Chicken fat; Rapeseed oil in the lamb and turkey
Energy: 374 kcal per 100g; The densest; 324 and 338 in the others
Protein, dry matter: 28.3%; 25.5% in the lamb, 27.2% in the turkey

The richest of the three, for a dog that holds its weight easily.

Each recipe holds one named animal at 40%, split as 26% dried and 14% freshly prepared, on rice at 30% and barley at 15% or 16%. Peas, beet pulp and linseed follow, then dosed prebiotics and a pinch of turmeric. No fish or fish oil appears anywhere in the range.

What varies is the animal, the fat and the energy. The chicken uses chicken fat; the lamb and turkey use rapeseed oil, so they carry no chicken at all. Protein runs from 25.5% to 28.3% of dry matter, and carbohydrate an estimated 47.2% to 47.8%.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

374.4 kcal/100g

Protein

26%

Fat

12%

Fibre

Ash

7.5%

Dry weight

Protein

28.3%

Fat

13%

Fibre

3.3%

Ash

8.2%

Carbs

47.2%

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

40%

Carbs

53%

Veg

0.3%

Oils

Other

1.7%

Pricing & size