Canine Choice

Canine Choice Premium Adult: Turkey & Rice review

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

61.2/100Good

DryAdult

Flavour

This is Canine Choice's rice-and-barley adult range, three recipes that each keep to a single named animal at 40% and let familiar grains do the carrying. The chicken, lamb and turkey versions all pair 26% dried meat with 14% freshly prepared, add linseed and beet pulp, and finish with dosed prebiotics and a pinch of turmeric. All three sit in our Good band.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Your dog may simply do well on a straightforward grain-inclusive bowl, and that is what this range is.

Dogs that need their food kept to one animal, since each recipe names a single species from the meat down to the fat
Owners feeding a chicken-sensitive dog, because the lamb and turkey versions carry no chicken at all
Dogs kept off fish, with linseed covering the omegas and not a trace of fish or fish oil across the range
Multi-dog homes spanning sizes, since the recipes are fed across everything from toy to giant breeds

Worth watching

It helps to know where this range makes its compromises before you place the first order.

The 40% meat leans on the dried form at 26%, with 14% fresh, so the headline is honest but not extravagant
A household running strictly gluten free will want to know that barley brings gluten with it
Carbohydrate is estimated at around 47% of dry matter, a touch above what is usual for a dry food, so portion with an eye on the waistline

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

How this scores

How we score

61.2/100Good

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceAverage

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueGood

The Details

Dog fit

Your dog may simply do well on a straightforward grain-inclusive bowl, and that is what this range is. It helps to know where this range makes its compromises before you place the first order.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Turkey

The score, in context

Each of the three recipes earns our Good band, level with the typical adult dry food, and it does so on sensible construction: a properly declared meat share, itemised percentages and dosed extras.

What's in it

Ingredients, as declared: 40% Turkey (dried turkey 26%, freshly prepared turkey 14%), rice (30%), barley (15%), peas (5%), rapeseed oil (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).

Named ingredients

40% Turkey (dried turkey 26%, freshly prepared turkey 14%), rice (30%), barley (15%), peas (5%), rapeseed oil (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).

Nutritional additives

- **Nutritional Additives (per kg):** Vitamin A 12.000 IU/kg, Vitamin D3 1.200 IU/kg, Vitamin E 120mg/kg, Zinc (as Zinc Chelate of glycine hydrate) 60mg/kg, Iron (as Iron (II) Sulphate Monohydrate) 60mg/kg, Manganese (as Manganous (II) Oxide) 50mg/kg, Zinc (as Zinc Oxide) 40mg/kg, Copper (as Copper (II) Sulphate Pentahydrate) 10mg/kg, Iodine (as Calcium Iodate Anhydrous) 2mg/kg, Selenium (as Sodium Selenite) 0.1mg/kg.

Ingredient notes

Putting the dried meat first at 26% is quietly the right call. With its water already gone, dried meat delivers several times the protein of fresh gram for gram. The 14% freshly prepared behind it covers palatability. Protein converts to between 25.5% and 28.3% of dry matter across the range.

Rice at 30% and barley at 15% or 16% carry the starch, with peas at 5% and beet pulp at 3% behind them. Estimated carbohydrate runs at 47.2% to 47.8% of dry matter, close to the 46.2% found in the typical adult dry food. The energy split here is a conventional one.

Linseed at 1% is the omega source, a plant one, and that is what keeps the whole range fish free. Its omega 3 arrives in a form dogs convert slowly, so give skin and coat a few weeks to answer rather than a few days.

Chicory FOS and MOS are both printed at 1000 mg/kg, so the prebiotic pair is properly dosed. Turmeric, parsley, yucca and cranberry sit at 100 mg/kg apiece, and printing numbers that small is an honest way of saying they are a garnish.

The mineral panel is otherwise standard. Part of the zinc arrives as a chelate, an easier form for a dog's gut to absorb.

How this variety differs

Turkey with rice, at 338 kcal per 100g. Turkey runs naturally leaner than chicken, which makes this the middle path of the range and a tidy option for a dog inclined to gain.

Price and value

£5.00 a kilo across all three recipes, sold in 2kg and 10kg bags.

Feeding a 15kg adult dog in moderate condition works out at about 224 grams and £1.12 a day on the chicken. The turkey comes to 248 grams and £1.24, the lamb to 259 grams and £1.29. Each is figured from the standard 840 kcal maintenance estimate (110 × bodyweight^0.75).

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

338.4 kcal/100g

Protein

25%

Fat

12%

Fibre

Ash

Dry weight

Protein

27.2%

Fat

13%

Fibre

3.3%

Ash

8.7%

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

53%

Veg

0.3%

Oils

Other

1.7%

Pricing & size