Brit Care Dog Hypoallergenic Adult Medium Breed review

Scored as a whole this lands in Good, level with the typical adult dry food and well up towards the top of the band. Nothing exotic drives it: a meat share declared in dried form, a transparency habit that puts doses on the label, and estimated carbohydrate at 42.5% of dry matter versus a typical 46.2% simply add up.

Ingredients, as declared: dehydrated lamb (40%), rice (35%), dried apple pulp, chicken fat, natural flavour, brewer's yeast, salmon oil (2%), pea flour, glucosamine (260 mg/kg), fructo-oligosaccharides (200 mg/kg), chondroitin sulphate (200 mg/kg), mannan-oligosaccharides (150 mg/kg), Mojave yucca (150 mg/kg), milk thistle seed (90 mg/kg), β-glucans (50 mg/kg), dried motherwort (50 mg/kg), dried sea buckthorn (50 mg/kg), Lactobacillus helveticus HA - 122 inactivated (15x109 cells/kg).

Dehydrated lamb at 40% is the anchor. Dried meat is weighed once the water has left, so that figure reaches the finished kibble intact. Protein converts to 28.9% of dry matter, and lamb remains one of the most digestible red meats a sensitive dog can be moved onto.

Rice at 35% supplies the starch alone. A single, gluten free grain keeps the list short and the digestion steady, which is precisely the job description on a food wearing a hypoallergenic label.

Fat runs a little higher here than in the large breed recipe, at 16% as fed and 17.8% of dry matter, and energy follows at 381 kcal per 100g. A busy medium-sized dog will use it; a sofa specialist will store it, so portion with honest eyes.

The fat's source is chicken, joined by salmon oil at 2%, and the flavouring is unnamed. None of that troubles everyday feeding, but each chips away at the strict single-protein reading, so treat the lamb-only promise as covering the meats rather than the whole label.

The closing run is the standard digestive kit for this range: fructo-oligosaccharides and mannan-oligosaccharides as prebiotics, β-glucans, Mojave yucca, plus an inactivated Lactobacillus culture. Trace-level herbs from milk thistle to sea buckthorn decorate more than they deliver.

£4.40 per kilo, available in 1kg, 3kg and 12kg bags.

Take the standard 840 kcal maintenance estimate (110 × bodyweight^0.75) for a 15kg adult in moderate condition, and the day comes to roughly 220 grams at about £0.97. For dogs of 10kg to 15kg the bag itself suggests 130 to 180 grams, and the waistline settles where inside that range your dog belongs.