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HiLife Puppy Chicken Recipes 150g Pouch Selection review

Name: HiLife Puppy Chicken Recipes 150g Pouch Selection
Brand: HiLife

77.9/100Excellent

WetPuppy

Excellent, and a label that reads like a kitchen list. Chicken is half of each pate and every other ingredient carries a figure, down to the botanical extracts in milligrams. Calcium converts to 1.4% of dry matter, a well judged level for the toy and small puppies this is written for.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Puppies kept to chicken, the only meat in either recipe
Pups who will finish medium or smaller
Owners who want every vegetable quantified
Growing dogs with healthy appetites. It runs at 112 kcal per 100g against 106 for the typical puppy wet food
Gentle gut support from chicory extract at 300 mg and seaweed extract at 200 mg per kilo

Worth watching

Fish oil at 0.5% in both, so an elimination diet cannot treat chicken as the only animal here
Not grain free, with brown rice at 4%
A puppy heading for a large adult frame needs its growth plan checked with a vet

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

How this scores

How we score

77.9/100Excellent

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueExcellent

The details

Dog fit

Written for toy, small and medium puppies. The feeding guide starts at 75g a day and climbs fast, so reread the chart as your puppy gains weight.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Puppy

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

HiLife Puppy Chicken Recipes 150g Pouch Selection 77.9

All one Excellent. Typical wet food: Excellent.

It clears the middle of a strong field of puppy wet foods comfortably, on an itemised list and a high named meat share.

What's in it

Chicken50%The whole meat story in both pates.
Cooked wholegrain brown rice4%The only grain.
Peas, pumpkin (or carrots, apple)4% eachThe one place the two recipes differ.
Sunflower oil2%A light oil that brings vitamin E with its fatty acids.
Fish oil0.5%Long chain omega 3 for a growing brain and coat.
Minerals
Chicory extract300 mg/kgA prebiotic fibre source.
Seaweed extract200 mg/kgIodine and a spread of minerals.
Yucca extract50 mg/kgThere for what the garden smells like afterwards.

Vitamins A and E with iron, zinc, copper, iodine and manganese, each dosed per kilo.

Fish oil in both recipes puts fish on the allergen picture alongside chicken.

Named ingredients

Chicken with Wholegrain rice, peas and pumpkin Pate: Chicken (50%), cooked wholegrain brown rice (4%), peas (4%), pumpkin (4%), sunflower oil (2%), fish oil (0.5%), minerals, chicory extract (300 mg/kg), seaweed extract (200 mg/kg), yucca extract (50 mg/kg). Chicken with Wholegrain Rice, Carrots and Apple Pate: Chicken (50%), cooked wholegrain brown rice (4%), carrots (4%), apple (4%), sunflower oil (2%), fish oil (0.5%), minerals, chicory extract (300 mg/kg), seaweed extract (200 mg/kg), yucca extract (50 mg/kg)..

Against the range

Two pates in one selection, both on chicken at 50% with cooked wholegrain brown rice at 4%, sunflower oil and a little fish oil. Only the produce changes: peas and pumpkin in one, carrots and apple in the other, each at 4%.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

112 kcal/100g

Protein

8.5%

Fat

Fibre

0.5%

Ash

1.5%

Moisture

78.5%

Dry weight

Protein

39.5%

Fat

37.2%

Fibre

2.3%

Ash

Carbs

14%

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

77.5%

Carbs

9.3%

Veg

9.3%

Oils

3.9%

Pricing & size