Canine Choice

Canine Choice Premium Puppy review

Name: Canine Choice Premium Puppy
Brand: Canine Choice

63.4/100Good

DryPuppy

A chicken, rice and barley puppy kibble that takes the traditional route tidily, and it sits in our Good band. The chicken is split into dried and fresh, which tells you what actually reaches the bowl. Every supplement down the tail carries a figure.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Puppies happiest on chicken, the only meat named
Owners who prefer grain in a growth food
Unsettled tummies. FOS and MOS are each printed at 1000 mg/kg
Growing joints, with glucosamine at 500 mg/kg and chondroitin at 100 mg/kg
Label readers. Every added vitamin and mineral has its figure beside it

Worth watching

Barley carries gluten
Pea protein at 5% above whole peas, so part of the declared protein comes from a plant
Salmon oil puts fish in the bowl, which rules it out for an exclusion trial

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

How this scores

How we score

63.4/100Good

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceGood

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Listed for puppies of every size. If yours will grow into a large adult, ask Canine Choice for the calcium figure before you commit.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Puppy

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

Canine Choice Premium Puppy 63.4

All one Good. Typical dry food: Good.

It lands right on the puppy middle mark, held there by cereal and pea protein doing work that meat does in foods placed above it.

What's in it

Chicken: dried, freshly prepared26%, 14%The dried portion does the heavy lifting, since it goes in without its water.
Rice30%Easy starch.
Barley11%Useful fibre and micronutrients. Contains gluten.
Chicken fat5%
Pea protein, peas5%, 3%Plant protein, which dogs make less of than the animal sort.
Beet pulp3%Gentle, well tolerated fibre.
Salmon oil, linseed1% eachOmega 3 from sea and soil.
Chicory (FOS), mannanoligosaccharides1000mg/kg eachPrebiotics for the gut.
Glucosamine, chondroitin sulphate500mg/kg, 100mg/kg
Minerals, yucca100mg/kg yuccaYucca helps with the smell in the garden.

Vitamins A, D3 and E with zinc, iron, manganese, copper, iodine and selenium, all dosed, mostly as sulphates.

No calcium on the printed analysis. For a pup heading to a large adult size, ask Canine Choice for it.

No moisture figure is declared, so the dry matter readings use our standard 8% for a kibble.

Named ingredients

40% Chicken (dried chicken 26%, freshly prepared chicken 14%), rice (30%), barley (11%), chicken fat (5%), pea protein (5%), peas (3%), beet pulp (3%), salmon oil (1%), linseed (1%), minerals, chicory (source of prebiotic fos) (1000mg/kg), mannanoligosaccharides (source of prebiotic mos) (1000mg/kg), glucosamine (500mg/kg), yucca (100mg/kg), chondroitin sulphate (100mg/kg).

Against the range

Chicken makes up 40% of the label, dried at 26% and freshly prepared at 14%, over rice at 30% and barley at 11%. The prebiotics, joint supplements and added minerals all carry printed figures.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

380 kcal/100g

Protein

29%

Fat

13%

Fibre

Ash

7.5%

Dry weight

Protein

31.5%

Fat

14.1%

Fibre

3.3%

Ash

8.2%

Carbs

42.9%

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

52%

Veg

0.3%

Oils

Other

1.7%

Pricing & size