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Ava Wet Food Puppy review

Name: Ava Wet Food Puppy
Brand: AVA

Wet Puppy Natural Joint care Fussy eaters Skin and coat Digestion High energy

Very good

A genuinely strong wet food. 49% declared meat content is respectable, and the label tells you exactly what is inside. Feeding it costs about £2.95 a day for a typical adult dog - the breakdown below shows exactly what that buys.

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Label last checked July 17, 2026

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Top 17%scores higher than 84% of rated foodsacross all 3530 foods we've scored

Very goodscore bandthe dot marks where it sits among every food we've rated

£2.95 approx.per day for a 15 kg dogcheaper than 54% of wet foods

49%declared meat content

Where the points went

The full breakdown, exactly as the algorithm scored it. How our rating works

Ingredient quality

Weighted ingredient quality 82/100 across 16 ingredients (declared percentages used for 2, position estimates for the rest).

32.7 / 40

Label clarity

Every ingredient individually named (+5); percentages cover 56% of the recipe (+3.4); meat sources named (+2); recipe reads as a fixed formula (+2).

12.4 / 15

Additives

No artificial colours, flavours, controversial preservatives or added sugars found.

10 / 10

Red flags

No red-flag ingredients.

0 / 0

Meat content

Declared meat content 49%.

14.8 / 15

Nutritional balance

Estimated carbohydrate 22% dry matter (low); fat 27.3% DM is high (obesity/pancreatitis watch) (-0.3); fibre 0.9% DM (+0.8); ash 9.1% DM - sensible mineral load (+1.3); functional extras: omega-3 source, pre/probiotics, joint support, named botanicals (+2).

7.8 / 10

Processing

Retorted wet food.

6 / 10

ODF Score

Algorithm v1.4.0 · scored July 28, 2026 · full methodology public

84 / 100

Our analysis

Breaking the 84 down: the biggest single loss is ingredient quality, where it takes 32.7 of a possible 40. Its strongest showing is additives at 10 of 10.

The label declares 49% meat, which is a real number, which already puts it ahead of the many that print none, and the ingredient list names things individually rather than hiding them in catch-all categories.

At about £2.95 a day to feed a 15kg dog, the question is not whether it is cheap but whether the label justifies the price - and on our scoring, it broadly does.

Ingredients

Straight from the label, grouped by role - every ingredient is coloured by our published classification and links to its full page.

Meat & fish

Chicken 49%

Carbs & grains

Brown Rice 7%

Oils & fats

Fish Oil

Supplements & extras

Minerals Brewers Yeast Whole Dried Egg Pre-Biotic Fructo-Oligosaccharide 400mg/kg Beta-Glucans Glucosamine 125 mg/kg Pre-Biotic Mannan-Oligosaccharide 100mg/kg Chondroitin 50 mg/kg Yucca Extract 50mg/kg Cranberry Extract Pomegranate Extract Green Tea Extract Rosemary Extract

Good qualityAcceptable / watch the amountRed flagGeneric / neutralOutlined = first five on the label

Feeding & cost

What a bag actually costs to feed - worked out per dog, not per pack.

Pack size	RRP	Per kg
395 g	£1.59	£4.03

How heavy is your dog?

A typical 15 kg adult dog needs about 731 g a day = £2.95 / day, £89.68 / month.

How we work this out

Energy: an adult dog at rest needs about 95 × weight^0.75 kcal a day (the FEDIAF maintenance formula - a 15 kg dog works out near 725 kcal).
Portion: divide that by this food's energy density, 99 kcal/100g, to get the grams above - a denser food needs fewer grams.
Cost: multiply the grams by this food's price, £4.03 / kg, for the daily cost, then by 30.4 days for the month.

Estimates scale to your dog's weight and the food's calorie density - a denser food needs fewer grams. A rough guide; always follow the pack. This is a puppy food, but the figures above are for an adult dog at maintenance - the same reference we use on every food so costs stay comparable. A growing puppy needs roughly twice the energy for its weight, so feed to the pack, not to this. Try the full feeding calculator

Nutrition

Declared analysis converted to a dry-matter basis, so wet and dry foods compare fairly.

Protein

40.9 % DM

Directory average: 42.6

Fat

27.3 % DM

Directory average: 27.9

Est. carbs

21.8 % DM

Directory average: 18.3

Fibre

0.9 % DM

Directory average: 3.9

Ash

9.1 % DM

Directory average: 10.7

Carbohydrates are estimated: 100% minus protein, fat, fibre, ash and moisture.

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This is label analysis, not veterinary advice - if your dog has a health condition, talk to your vet before switching foods.