Canine Choice

Canine Choice Puppy Large review

Name: Canine Choice Puppy Large
Brand: Canine Choice

68/100Good

DryPuppy

A Good chicken-led growth kibble built for big pups, with fresh and dehydrated chicken at the top and sweet potato in place of cereal. It carries a printed probiotic strain as well as prebiotics and a joint pair. What it lacks is a calcium figure, the number large breed rearing leans on hardest.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Large breed puppies, the size it was made for
Pups who do well on chicken, fresh at the top of the list and hydrolysed liver further down
A grain free bag; sweet potato at 15% carries the starch
Growing joints. Glucosamine at 350 mg/kg, chondroitin from cartilage at 250 mg/kg
A live culture in the food itself: Bacillus subtilis, listed with its strain
Hungry big pups, at 395 kcal per 100g against the 376 typical of a puppy kibble

Worth watching

No calcium figure anywhere on the pack. Ask Canine Choice for it before you commit
Fish oil in the recipe, so not for a pup kept clear of fish
Hydrolysed chicken liver is still chicken, so no way around a chicken sensitivity

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

How this scores

How we score

68/100Good

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceGood

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Listed for large breed puppies. Work from the chart for the adult weight you expect, and check how your pup is filling out every fortnight or so.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Puppy

Breed size

Large

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

Canine Choice Puppy Large 68.0

All one Good. Typical dry food: Good.

Level with the middle of the puppy kibble field, and the empty calcium line is most of what holds it there.

What's in it

Fresh chicken34%Goes in wet and shrinks in the oven.
Dehydrated chicken21%Arrives dry, so its 21% is much nearer what the bag really holds.
Sweet potato15%The starch, in place of grain.
Peas9%
Hydrolysed chicken liver5%Mostly for taste, a fair reason.
Apple pulp5%Fibre.
Dehydrated carrot, dehydrated cranberries0.32%, 0.08%The label converts them: equivalent to 3% carrots and 0.75% cranberries. Honest arithmetic.
Chicken fat, brewer's yeast, fish oil, mineralsBrewer's yeast for B vitamins; fish oil for omega 3.
Chicory, mannan-oligosaccharides, herbs, sea algae, clovesFOS and MOS on the prebiotic side.
Glucosamine, cartilage, yucca schidigeraGlucosamine at 350mg/kg and chondroitin at 250mg/kg.

A fully quantified panel, vitamin E at 600 mg/kg, vitamin C at 300 mg/kg and zinc at 108 mg/kg among it, plus a Bacillus subtilis probiotic.

No calcium figure on the pack, for a food sold to large breed puppies. Feed to the guide and keep the pup lean.

Named ingredients

Fresh chicken (34%), dehydrated chicken (21%), sweet potato (15%), peas (9%), hydrolyzed chicken liver (5%), apple pulp (5%), dehydrated carrot (0.32%, equivalent to 3% carrots), dehydrated cranberries (0.08% equivalent to 0.75% cranberries), chicken fat, brewer's yeast, fish oil, minerals, chicory (source of fos), mannan-oligosaccharides (mos), camomile, parsley, rosehips, sea algae, rosemary, cloves, glucosamine (350mg/kg), cartilage (a source of chondroitin 250mg/kg), yucca schidigera.

Against the range

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

395 kcal/100g

Protein

29%

Fat

18%

Fibre

3.25%

Ash

7.5%

Dry weight

Protein

31.5%

Fat

19.6%

Fibre

3.5%

Ash

8.2%

Carbs

37.2%

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

60%

Carbs

24%

Veg

Oils

3.4%

Other

6.6%

Pricing & size