Brit Care Dog Hypoallergenic Weight Loss review

Weighed by our scoring this sits in the Good band, and so does the typical adult dry food. What lifts it is coherence: the protein, fat and fibre figures all pull in the slimming direction at once. The label declares its doses all the way down, and estimated carbohydrate converts to 43.3% of dry matter, under the 46.2% typical.

Ingredients, as declared: dehydrated rabbit (36%), rice (35%), dried apple pulp (12%), lignocellulose (10%), chicken fat, natural flavour, brewer's yeast, salmon oil (1%), psyllium husk & seeds (0.5%), 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).

Dehydrated rabbit at 36% is a quietly clever choice for a diet food. As a dried inclusion its weight is honest, as a meat it is lean and highly digestible, and as a protein it is novel enough that allergy-prone dogs can usually eat it without incident. Protein finishes at 30% of dry matter, exactly where a weight-loss recipe should keep it so the scales lose fat rather than muscle.

The fibre stack is the recipe's engine room. Lignocellulose at 10% is an inert, near calorie-free bulker, dried apple pulp at 12% brings softer fermentable fibre, and psyllium at 0.5% adds the soluble kind that keeps digestion orderly. Together they push crude fibre to 10.6% of dry matter, which is how a bowl stays satisfying at 311 kcal per 100g.

Rice at 35% may look generous on a diet food, but with fat held to 10% of dry matter the total energy stays firmly low. Against the 357 kcal typical of adult dry food, this recipe runs meaningfully lighter per gram.

L-carnitine at 300 mg is the classic weight-management inclusion, there to help the body burn fat while sparing lean tissue, and taurine at 1,500 mg minds the heart. The joint pair of glucosamine at 300 mg/kg and chondroitin at 230 mg/kg earns its place too, since carrying extra weight is hardest on exactly those joints.

Even a low-fat recipe owes the dog its essential fats, and chicken fat with salmon oil at 1% is where they come from. The honest side effect is that the label is not rabbit and nothing else. A prebiotic pair, an inactivated Lactobacillus culture and the trace herbs round things off in the range's standard style.

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

The gentle calorie level means portions run larger: about 270 grams and £1.35 a day for a 15kg adult in moderate condition, assuming 840 kcal of need a day (110 × bodyweight^0.75, the standard estimate). A dog actually slimming should be fed to the target weight the vet sets rather than the current one, so treat that figure as a ceiling.