Alpha High Performance review

There is a genuine gap between what this food feeds and what it declares, and the score follows the declarations. The Average band placing, beneath the Good band of the typical adult dry food, comes down to species left unnamed. The poultry in the meal and the oil could be any bird, and the meat and bone meal any animal. On the plate the numbers stand up well, with protein converting to 33.0% of dry matter and carbohydrate to 37.3% against a category typical of 46.2%. A hard-working dog with no intolerances loses nothing here; a label reader loses certainty.

Ingredients, as declared: Poultry Meal (35.0%), Whole Maize, White Rice (14.0%), Poultry Oil, Sugar Beet Pellets, Whole Oats, Meat and Bone Meal, Brewers Yeast, Whole Linseed, Chicory Root Extract (as a source of Prebiotic FOS) (0.1%), Mannan-oligosaccharides (Prebiotic MOS) (0.3%), Extract of Yucca Schidigera.

Poultry meal at 35.0% is a big first entry, and because meal is already dried, its protein survives into the finished kibble at close to full strength. That is how the analysis reaches 30.0% protein as fed from a short, plain list.

Whole maize, white rice at 14.0% and whole oats supply the starch. These are ordinary cereals that dogs tolerate well, and the overall carbohydrate estimate of 34.0% as fed is lower than most adult dry foods carry.

The blind spots are the unnamed species. Poultry covers any farmed bird, whether in the meal or in the oil, and meat and bone meal covers any animal at all. That permits batch-to-batch variation and rules the food out as a base for pinpointing a food intolerance.

Whole linseed brings plant omega 3s, brewers yeast adds B vitamins, and FOS at 0.1% with MOS at 0.3% act as prebiotics for the gut. The trace minerals come in standard inorganic forms with every dose printed.

£2.80 a kilo in a 15kg sack.

For a 15kg adult dog in moderate condition, expect around 233 grams and £0.65 per day on the standard maintenance arithmetic of 110 × bodyweight^0.75, roughly 840 kcal at that weight.