Techni-Cal

Techni-Cal Pure Nature: Adult Grain Free review

Name: Techni-Cal Pure Nature: Adult Grain Free
Brand: Techni-Cal

73.8/100Excellent

DryAdult

Flavour

The two grain free recipes reach our Excellent band, and the other two sit a step behind in Good. That split comes down to cereal. Mini Adult Grain Free is the most interesting list here, opening on fresh chicken and declaring 11.55 g of omega 3, the highest figure in the range by a distance. Be sure which of the four you are picking up.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Meat carrying most of the bowl: the grain free pair convert to 30.8% and 35.9% protein of dry matter
Small adults from 1kg up to 10kg, the dogs Mini Adult Grain Free is written for
Dogs kept off cereal. Peas, potato starch, sweet potato and horse beans bind the grain free pair
Fish eaters, with salmon meal at 27.5% heading the Salmon & Rice list
Dogs kept away from fish: Adult with Lamb has neither fish meal nor fish oil
Coats that need work, given 4% cold pressed salmon oil in the mini recipe

Worth watching

Lamb at 4% in Adult with Lamb, behind dehydrated chicken at 14%. Not a move off chicken
An animal fat with no species in Salmon & Rice, so it cannot hold a dog strictly on fish
More than one bird in both grain free recipes, and pork fat in Adult Grain Free
No trace mineral doses on any of the four

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

How this scores

How we score

73.8/100Excellent

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceGood

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueExcellent

The details

Dog fit

All four are listed for adults, and the mini for small dogs. If your dog is avoiding chicken, pork or unnamed fats, read the specific recipe's list before ordering.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

Mini Adult Grain Free 75.6
Adult Grain Free 73.8
Adult 65.4
Adult Salmon 55.9

Four recipes across Excellent and Good. Typical dry food: Good.

The two grain free recipes show what the line can do; the maize and barley recipes carry more cereal and sit a step behind.

What's in it

Dehydrated chicken, turkey and duckOne concentrated entry, three birds.
Peas, potato starchThe binding, in place of grain.
Beet pulp9%
Chicken fat, pork fat4%, no figurePork fat is easy to miss if your home avoids pig.
Salmon oil (cold pressed)1.5%
Dried whole eggs
Sodium chloride, crude lecithins
Fructo-oligosaccharides0.05%A prebiotic.

A full vitamin panel with every dose printed, plus omega 3 and omega 6 figures; no trace minerals are listed.

Pork fat sits behind the chicken fat, so this is not a pork-free recipe.

Named ingredients

Dehydrated chicken, turkey and duck, peas, potato starch, beet pulp 9%, chicken fat 4%, pork fat, salmon oil (cold pressed) 1.5%, dried whole eggs, sodium chloride, crude lecithins, fructo-oligosaccharides 0.05%.

Against the range

Grain: None; Grain free like the mini; the other two run on maize or barley.
Protein, dry matter: 30.8%; The mini is 35.9%, Salmon & Rice 26.4%.
Carbohydrate, dry matter: 40.1%; Salmon & Rice reaches 49.4%.

The simplest grain free build in the range, and a properly meat forward reading.

Four quite different builds under one name. Two are grain free and open on dehydrated poultry, one is salmon meal with barley, rice and oats, and one is maize based with chicken ahead of the lamb it is named for. Every recipe dates its vitamins in full and prints its omega 3 and omega 6.

None of the four publishes a trace element dose: no zinc, copper, manganese or selenium figure anywhere. All four sit at the same price per kilo.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

377 kcal/100g

Protein

28%

Fat

16%

Fibre

3.5%

Ash

Moisture

Dry weight

Protein

30.8%

Fat

17.6%

Fibre

3.8%

Ash

7.7%

Carbs

40.1%

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

57.7%

Carbs

31.8%

Oils

8.4%

Other

2.1%

Pricing & size