Brit Care Dog Sustainable Sensitive review

This one earns our Good band, level with the typical adult dry food. Transparency reads Outstanding here, nutritional balance Average, and both protein and processing and value come out Good. Nothing anywhere lets it down, and for a sensitivity recipe that steadiness is rather the point.

Ingredients, as declared: dehydrated insect (14%), dehydrated white fish (14%), yellow peas (14%), green peas (14%), dried apple pulp, pea protein, coconut oil (8%), hydrolysed white fish protein (4%), brewer's yeast, salmon oil (2%), linseed (2%), egg shells, 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 insect and dehydrated white fish open the label at 14% apiece, with hydrolysed white fish protein at 4% behind them. Both lead proteins arrive dried, so their shares are honest ones, and hydrolysed protein is broken into fragments small enough that a touchy digestion tends to accept it more readily. Protein converts to 27.8% of dry matter overall.

Read to the bottom of the list and the chicken-free claim still holds. Even the fat is coconut oil at 8% rather than the poultry fat most kibbles lean on, joined by salmon oil at 2% for marine omega 3s and linseed at 2% for the plant kind.

Peas do a great deal of work here: whole yellow and green peas at 14% each, then pea protein and pea flour further down. Whole peas bring fibre and micronutrients, but the refined forms are there to boost protein, and plant protein is less digestible for dogs than animal protein. Estimated carbohydrate comes out at 47.0% of dry matter, in step with the 46.2% typical for adult dry food.

Egg shells are the calcium source, a simple and natural one, and they place egg on the allergen list, worth registering for the rare egg-reactive dog.

The support package is dosed in print: glucosamine at 300 mg/kg, chondroitin sulphate at 230 mg/kg, fructo-oligosaccharides at 230 mg/kg, mannan-oligosaccharides at 180 mg/kg and an inactivated Lactobacillus probiotic. Milk thistle and sea buckthorn sit at trace level behind them.

£5.00 a kilo across the 1kg, 3kg and 12kg bags.

Feeding a 15kg adult dog in moderate condition takes about 230 grams a day, which works out at £1.15, on an assumption of about 840 kcal daily (110 × bodyweight^0.75, the standard maintenance estimate). The bag's own guide asks 140 to 190 grams for dogs between 10kg and 15kg, a touch leaner than our estimate, so let your dog's condition decide.