Alpha

Alpha High Performance review

Name: Alpha High Performance
Brand: Alpha

49.9/100Average

DryAdult

A working-grade kibble built on concentration, with protein at 30.0% and fat at 16.0%, the sort of fuel a hard-running dog burns through. It sits in our Average band all the same. The recipe leans on animal entries that never name their species, so a label reader loses certainty that the dog does not lose in the bowl.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Working, competing and highly active dogs
Calories in a compact serving, at an estimated 360 kcal per 100g
Kennels and multi-dog homes: it comes in 15kg sacks
Dogs that digest grain comfortably. Maize, rice and oats supply the carbohydrate
A lower carbohydrate share than most adult dry food, 37.3% of dry matter against a typical 46.2%

Worth watching

Poultry meal and poultry oil never say which bird, and meat and bone meal never says which animal
Too dense for a sofa dog without trimming the portion

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

How this scores

How we score

49.9/100Average

Protein and processingAverage

Nutritional balanceGood

TransparencyGood

ValueAverage

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adult dogs of every size, and mixed for a working appetite. Check your dog has no known meat intolerance before ordering, since the label cannot tell you which animals are in it.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

The score, in context

Alpha High Performance 49.9

All one Average. Typical dry food: Good.

The numbers on the plate stand up well; the score follows the declarations, and the unnamed species are what hold it back.

What's in it

Poultry meal35.0%Dried before it goes in, so the protein survives at close to full strength. Any farmed bird.
Whole maize
White rice14.0%Ordinary cereal that dogs tolerate well.
Poultry oilThe fat, again with no bird named.
Sugar beet pellets, whole oats
Meat and bone mealCould be any animal at all, which rules the food out for pinning down an intolerance.
Brewers yeastB vitamins.
Whole linseedPlant omega 3s.
Chicory root extract (FOS), MOS0.1% and 0.3%Prebiotics for the gut.
Extract of Yucca schidigera

Vitamins A, D3 and E, with the trace minerals in standard inorganic forms and every dose printed.

Named ingredients

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.

Against the range

A short, plain working-dog list. Poultry meal at 35.0% leads, and because meal is already dried its protein survives into the kibble at close to full strength. Whole maize, white rice at 14.0% and whole oats carry the starch. Neither the poultry nor the meat and bone meal names its species.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

360 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

30%

Fat

16%

Fibre

Ash

Moisture

Dry weight

Protein

33%

Fat

17.6%

Fibre

3.3%

Ash

8.8%

Carbs

37.3%

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

38.9%

Carbs

51%

Veg

0.1%

Oils

7.1%

Other

2.9%

Pricing & size