Techni-Cal

Techni-Cal Pure Nature: Adult with Lamb review

Name: Techni-Cal Pure Nature: Adult with Lamb
Brand: Techni-Cal

65.4/100Good

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

65.4/100Good

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceGood

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueGood

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, lamb, duck14% chicken, 4% lambChicken leads. The lamb on the front is a minor share.
Maize, maize middlingsMost of the carrying.
Chicken fat
Maize glutenLifts the protein reading without any meat behind it.
Beet pulp5%
Fresh chicken4%
Rice, brewers yeast
Dried whole eggs1%
Sodium chloride, fructo-oligosaccharides, Mojave yucca0.15% FOS

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

A chicken recipe with lamb in it. Not the protein change a dog moving off chicken needs.

Named ingredients

Dehydrated chicken 14%, turkey, lamb 4% and duck, maize, maize middlings, chicken fat, maize gluten, beet pulp 5%, fresh chicken 4%, rice, brewers yeast, dried whole eggs 1%, sodium chloride, fructo-oligosaccharides 0.15%, Mojave yucca.

Against the range

Meat: Chicken 14%, lamb 4%, turkey, duck; The grain free pair are poultry too; Salmon & Rice is fish.
Grain: Maize, maize gluten, rice; Two recipes have none.
Fish: No fish meal or fish oil; The only recipe without either.

A solid recipe with a strong meat opening, best read as chicken with lamb added.

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

378 kcal/100g

Protein

26%

Fat

14%

Fibre

2.5%

Ash

Moisture

Dry weight

Protein

28.6%

Fat

15.4%

Fibre

2.7%

Ash

6.6%

Carbs

46.7%

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

50.8%

Carbs

43%

Oils

3.8%

Other

2.3%

Pricing & size