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HiLife Adult Dog 150g Pouches: Chicken Breast in Jelly review

Name: HiLife Adult Dog 150g Pouches: Chicken Breast in Jelly
Brand: HiLife

84.9/100Outstanding

WetAdult

Flavour

All four pouches sit in our Outstanding band, and every one prints its chicken share, from 46% up to 60%. Vegetables, fruit and a little brown rice fill in behind. The Chicken Breast in Jelly is the only one that sticks to a single meat.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Adults from toy up to medium, the sizes HiLife builds these for
Owners who like a printed meat share
Stiffening joints: glucosamine and chondroitin are printed on all but the Chicken & Meat pouches
Rotation feeders, with tuna, salmon, duck and beef each paired with chicken
Dogs that rarely visit the water bowl. Moisture runs from 76.5% to 81%

Worth watching

Chicken on all four labels, so not a range for a chicken-intolerant dog
A second animal in every pouch bar the Chicken Breast in Jelly
Brown rice in the Chicken & Fish and Chicken & Meat boxes

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

How this scores

How we score

84.9/100Outstanding

Protein and processingExcellent

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueOutstanding

The details

Dog fit

Built for adult dogs from toy to medium. A 15 kg dog needs several 150g pouches a day, so check the box size against your dog's appetite.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

Chicken 87.2
Chicken 87.0
Chicken Breast 85.0
Chicken Breast in Jelly 84.9

All four Outstanding. Typical wet food: Excellent.

All four reach the top band in a strong category, and they differ in their recipes far more than in their pillars, so let your dog's tastes decide.

What's in it

Chicken60%The biggest named share in the range, and the only animal.
Carrots, peas5% each
Sunflower oil
Tapioca starchBinds the jelly.
Minerals
Chicory, seaweed and yucca extracts
Glucosamine, chondroitin

Vitamins A and E with iron, zinc, copper, iodine and manganese; the B12 and D3 lines carry units that do not read correctly.

Named ingredients

Chicken (60%), carrots (5%), peas (5%), sunflower Oil, tapioca starch, minerals, chicory extract (300mg/kg), seaweed extract (200mg/kg), yucca extract (50mg/kg), glucosamine (50mg/kg), chondroitin (15mg/kg).

Against the range

Meat: Chicken only, 60%; A second animal in all the others
Protein, dry matter: 73.7%; 40.0% to 61.7% in the rest
Carbohydrate, dry matter: 6.7%; The lowest of the four
Energy: 84 kcal per 100g; The lightest, so portions run largest

For a one-animal bowl this is the cleanest choice in the range.

Chicken opens every list with a figure beside it: 46% where a second meat joins it, 55% as breast in the broth recipe and 60% in the jelly. Two boxes hold two labels each, pairing chicken with tuna or salmon, or with duck or beef, plus wholegrain brown rice and two plant extras at 4% apiece.

Every pouch ends on the same trace trio of chicory, seaweed and yucca extracts, and three of the four add glucosamine at 50 mg/kg and chondroitin at 15 mg/kg. What varies most is protein, from 40.0% to 73.7% of dry matter.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

84 kcal/100g

Protein

14%

Fat

2.5%

Fibre

0.2%

Ash

Moisture

81%

Dry weight

Protein

73.7%

Fat

13.2%

Fibre

1.1%

Ash

5.3%

Carbs

6.7%

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%

Added water

18%

Carbs

9.6%

Veg

6.6%

Oils

3.8%

Other

Pricing & size