Canine Choice

Canine Choice Premium Adult: Lamb & Rice review

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

61.2/100Good

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

61.2/100Good

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balancePoor

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

Lamb

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 lamb26%Water already gone, so it carries several times the protein of fresh, gram for gram.
Freshly prepared lamb14%For palatability.
Rice30%
Barley16%Brings gluten with it.
Peas5%
Rapeseed oil4%Keeps lamb the only animal on the list.
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% Lamb (dried lamb 26%, freshly prepared lamb 14%), rice (30%), barley (16%), peas (5%), rapeseed oil (4%), beet pulp (3%), linseed (1%), minerals, chicory (source of prebiotic fos) (1000mg/kg), mannanoligosaccharides (source of prebiotic mos) (1000mg/kg), turmeric (100mg/kg), parsley (100 mg/kg), yucca (100mg/kg), dried cranberry (100mg/kg).

Against the range

Energy: 324 kcal per 100g; The gentlest; 338 and 374 in the others
Ash, dry matter: 11.4%; Higher than its siblings at 8.2% and 8.7%
Fat source: Rapeseed oil; Chicken fat in the chicken recipe

The single-animal pick for a chicken-sensitive dog, with the mineral load dried red meat tends to bring.

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

324.4 kcal/100g

Protein

23.5%

Fat

11%

Fibre

Ash

10.5%

Dry weight

Protein

25.5%

Fat

12%

Fibre

3.3%

Ash

11.4%

Carbs

47.8%

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

54%

Veg

0.3%

Oils

Other

1.7%

Pricing & size