Brit Care Dog Hypoallergenic Dog Show Champion review

In our banding this earns an Excellent, a step above the typical adult dry food, which reads Good. The construction explains the gap: half the recipe is named fish, and ash is unusually low at 6.4% of dry matter. The additive panel is dosed from vitamins down to trace minerals, with nothing left vague.

Ingredients, as declared: salmon (36%) (dehydrated salmon, hydrolysed salmon), rice (26%), dehydrated herring (14%), chicken fat, linseed (4%), dried apple pulp, salmon oil (3%), natural flavour, brewer's yeast, dried algae (0.5%, Schizochytrium limacinum), pea flour, glucosamine (300 mg/kg), fructo-oligosaccharides (230 mg/kg), chondroitin sulphate (230 mg/kg), mannan-oligosaccharides (180 mg/kg), Mojave yucca (180 mg/kg), milk thistle seed (110 mg/kg), β-glucans (60 mg/kg), dried motherwort (60 mg/kg), dried sea buckthorn (60 mg/kg), probiotic Lactobacillus helveticus HA - 122 inactivated (15x109 cells/kg).

Salmon at 36% arrives dehydrated and hydrolysed, with dehydrated herring at 14% behind it. Because both fish arrive dried, those percentages describe the finished kibble rather than a pre-oven headline, and protein converts to 28.9% of dry matter.

The coat case is built in layers. Salmon oil at 3% and the fish themselves bring the marine fatty acids, linseed at 4% adds plant omega 3s, and dried Schizochytrium algae at 0.5% is a direct, dedicated DHA source. Recipes that bother with an algae line are usually serious about skin and coat, and this one has the coverage to show for it.

The only grain here is rice at 26%, and it is the main starch too. That keeps the base of the recipe as unchallenging as the fish on top of it. Estimated carbohydrate converts to 43.6% of dry matter, a little under the 46.2% typical for adult dry food.

The one wrinkle in the marine story is chicken fat, sitting fourth on the list. Rendered fat brings very little protein with it, so most fish-focused feeders will never see a consequence. The label cannot claim to be fish and nothing else, though, and we would rather you knew.

Crude ash at 6.4% of dry matter is low for a kibble, generally a sign of cleaner flesh going in rather than bone-heavy meal. The glucosamine and chondroitin pair is dosed at 300 mg/kg and 230 mg/kg, and a gut set of prebiotics, an inactivated Lactobacillus culture and trace herbs completes a very familiar ending for this range.

£5.00 a kilo, packaged in 1kg, 3kg and 12kg bags.

Portioned for a 15kg adult in moderate condition, expect about 219 grams and £1.10 a day, working from 840 kcal of estimated daily need (110 × bodyweight^0.75, the standard maintenance basis). The label's table offers 180 to 220 grams for the 15kg to 20kg bracket, close enough that condition scoring can settle the rest.