Techni-Cal

Techni-Cal Lifestages Large Breed Adult review

Name: Techni-Cal Lifestages Large Breed Adult
Brand: Techni-Cal

61.9/100Good

DryAdult

The brand's large-breed adult recipe swaps wheat and maize for rice, barley and oats, and lands in our Good band. Pork joins the poultry in the meat entry, fish meal adds marine protein, and a joint pair closes the list. It is a gentler, lower-fat bowl for dogs of 30kg and up.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Large and giant adults, the feeding table running to 80kg
Big dogs starting to feel their joints
Dogs that do better on gentler cereals than wheat and maize
Steady middle-aged dogs with no need for a rich bowl, at 12.0% fat
Owners who want each meat named

Worth watching

Protein at 23.1% of dry matter, modest for a big dog in hard work
Carbohydrate at 52.5% of dry matter. Watch portions on a dog that gains easily
Unnamed fish meal, and no trace mineral amounts on the label

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

How this scores

How we score

61.9/100Good

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balancePoor

TransparencyExcellent

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Listed for large and giant adults. The label asks 395 grams a day for a 30kg dog and 660 grams for a 60kg one, so check the table against your dog's weight.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Large, Giant

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

Techni-Cal Lifestages Large Breed Adult 61.9

All one Good. Typical dry food: Good.

Sensible rather than showy: the plant side carries more of the bowl than the meat-first opening suggests, and that holds it in the middle.

What's in it

Dehydrated chicken, turkey, duck and porkConcentrated protein. Pork will be new to plenty of dogs, though the label never shows how much of it there is.
Rice, barley, oatsReadily digested once cooked. Barley carries gluten.
Chicken fat, pork fat
Fish mealMarine amino acids and minerals; no species named.
Beet pulp
Salmon oil (cold pressed)Pressing without heat keeps more of the omega 3 intact. Unusual at this end of the market.
Sodium chloride, fructo-oligosaccharides, potassium chloridePotassium for a big dog drinking and passing a lot of water.
Glucosamine, chondroitin sulphateNo amount printed. A helpful extra, not a joint programme.

A fully dosed vitamin panel, vitamin E at 150 mg and choline chloride at 1200 mg among it. Omega 3 is declared at 1.98 g and omega 6 at 14.15 g. No trace mineral doses are published.

Barley carries gluten, so this does not suit a dog that needs a strictly gluten-free bowl.

Named ingredients

Dehydrated chicken, turkey, duck and pork, rice, barley, oats, chicken fat, pork fat, fish meal, beet pulp, salmon oil (cold pressed), sodium chloride, fructo-oligosaccharides, potassium chloride, glucosamine, chondroitin sulphate.

Against the range

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

359 kcal/100g

Protein

21%

Fat

12%

Fibre

3.2%

Ash

Moisture

Dry weight

Protein

23.1%

Fat

13.2%

Fibre

3.5%

Ash

7.7%

Carbs

52.5%

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

75.9%

Carbs

21.3%

Oils

2.5%

Other

0.4%

Pricing & size