Canine Choice

Canine Choice Puppy Small/Medium review

Name: Canine Choice Puppy Small/Medium
Brand: Canine Choice

76.6/100Excellent

DryPuppy

A rich, chicken-first kibble for the sizes that finish growing early, and it reaches our Excellent band. Fresh chicken at 32% and dehydrated chicken at 23% head the recipe, sweet potato does the binding, and starch is unusually light for a kibble. Energy is declared at 405 kcal per 100g.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Small and medium breed puppies, the dogs the maker made it for
Lively pups that need a lot from a small bowl: 405 kcal per 100g against 376 typical
Pups already on chicken, the only meat in the recipe
Cereal-free feeders. Sweet potato at 14% and peas at 7% do that job
Early joint care, glucosamine at 300 mg/kg and chondroitin at 200 mg/kg

Worth watching

Fat at 21.0%, so weigh a calm pup's portions
Fish oil on the list, so not fish free
No calcium in the printed analysis, a fair question for the maker
Pea protein lifts part of the declared protein off the bird

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

How this scores

How we score

76.6/100Excellent

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceExcellent

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueExcellent

The details

Dog fit

Listed for small and medium breed puppies. Start from the bag's chart and let the ribs and waist tell you whether to nudge it up or down.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Puppy

Breed size

Small, Medium

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

Canine Choice Puppy Small/Medium 76.6

All one Excellent. Typical dry food: Good.

Meat leading the list and an unusually light starch load are what carry it.

What's in it

Fresh chicken32%
Dehydrated chicken23%Goes in without its water, so it counts for more than its place implies.
Sweet potato14%Binding where a cereal would usually sit.
Chicken fatThird on the list: more of the same bird.
Peas, apple pulp7%, 4.3%With the sweet potato, all the starch and fibre the recipe asks for.
Hydrolyzed chicken liver5%For palatability, which growing pups reward with a clean bowl.
Dehydrated carrot, dehydrated cranberries0.33%, 0.08%The cranberry equivalence of 7.5% fresh does not add up, so read it loosely.
Pea protein, brewer's yeast, fish oil, mineralsYeast for B vitamins, fish oil for the coat.
Chicory, MOSThe prebiotics.
Botanicals, glucosamine, cartilage, yucca300mg/kg, 200mg/kg chondroitinCamomile through to cloves at trace level.

Dosed throughout, vitamin E at 600 mg/kg and vitamin C at 300 mg/kg among them, plus a Bacillus subtilis probiotic named to its strain.

No moisture declared, so the dry matter figures run on our standard 8% assumption for kibble.

Named ingredients

Fresh chicken (32%), dehydrated chicken (23%), sweet potato (14%), chicken fat, peas (7%), hydrolyzed chicken liver (5%), apple pulp (4.3%), dehydrated carrot (0.33% equivalent to 3% carrots), dehydrated cranberries (0.08% equivalent to 7.5% cranberries), pea protein, brewer's yeast, fish oil, minerals, chicory (source of fos), mannan-oligosaccharides (mos), camomile, parsley, rosehips, sea algae, rosemary, cloves, glucosamine (300mg/kg), cartilage (a source of chondroitin 200mg/kg), yucca schidigera.

Against the range

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

405 kcal/100g

Protein

32%

Fat

21%

Fibre

3.25%

Ash

7.5%

Dry weight

Protein

34.8%

Fat

22.8%

Fibre

3.5%

Ash

8.2%

Carbs

30.7%

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

23.5%

Veg

8.1%

Oils

Other

3.4%

Pricing & size