Coya

Coya Freeze-Dried Adult: Chicken review

Name: Coya Freeze-Dried Adult: Chicken
Brand: Coya

87.4/100Outstanding

Freeze-driedAdult

Flavour

Five recipes, each 80% animal and freeze dried, so the format does most of the arguing. Beef, chicken, pork and turkey keep to one species apiece, and the Fish is the one blend. All five sit in our Outstanding band.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Owners drawn to raw who would rather skip the freezer routine
Dogs whose owners want the animal doing nearly all of the work
Rotating proteins on one recipe pattern
One-meat plans, on any of the four land-meat recipes
Travel and boarding. Packs sit at room temperature until opened
Lean, hard-working dogs that need a lot of energy from a small bowl

Worth watching

Portions look startlingly small, and an old kibble scoop will overfeed badly
Unnamed white fish in the Fish recipe, the one label to read twice on an exclusion plan
Heart and liver inside the Turkey's meat share
A dog used to a wet bowl may want water added while it settles in

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

How this scores

How we score

87.4/100Outstanding

Protein and processingOutstanding

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueOutstanding

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults of every size. Moving from a cereal-based food is a real change, so mix over a slow week and weigh portions from the maker's chart.

Food type

Freeze-dried

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

Turkey 88.7
Pork 87.5
Chicken 87.4
Beef 87.1
Fish 80.0

All five Outstanding. Typical dry food: Good.

A sheet this even rarely turns up, so nothing in the scoring picks a winner; let your dog's protein history choose.

What's in it

Chicken80%The only animal on the list.
Sweet potato6%
Carrot4.5%
Pea3%A sensible inclusion at this level.
Apple, blackberry2% eachBlackberry is the second fruit here.
Vitamins and minerals

Vitamins A, D3 and E with zinc, iron, copper and organic selenium, each dosed. No calcium figure is printed.

Named ingredients

80% Chicken, 6% Sweet Potato, 4.5% Carrot, 3% Pea, 2% Apple, 2% Blackberry, Vitamins & Minerals

Against the range

Protein, dry matter: 49.5%; Highest in the range; the Pork is 45.3%
Ash: 4.0% declared; Up to 6.0% on the Beef and Pork
Energy: 519 kcal per 100g; 446 to 560 across the five

The protein leader of the five, and a dense one.

Every recipe declares 80% animal and is freeze dried, so the meat share survives the making almost untouched. Behind it sits the same small build: sweet potato, carrot or pumpkin, usually pea, and a fruit pair at 2% each, every entry with a percentage and no cereal anywhere.

Moisture runs from 4.0% to 6.0% and energy from 446 to 560 kcal per 100g. In dry matter, protein spans 45.3% to 49.5% and fat 31.9% to 34.4%. What varies is the animal: four single species, and a Fish that blends salmon with unnamed white fish.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

519 kcal/100g

Protein

47%

Fat

32%

Fibre

Ash

Moisture

Dry weight

Protein

49.5%

Fat

33.7%

Fibre

4.2%

Ash

4.2%

Carbs

8.4%

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

80%

Carbs

Veg

6.5%

Other

4.5%

Pricing & size