Chudleys Lamb Sensitive review

Our reading places Lamb Sensitive in the Average band, one rung below the Good band where the typical adult dry food finishes. The scoreline is less dramatic than it sounds: protein and processing and nutritional balance read Average with transparency Good, and the food simply loses ground on a cereal-forward build and a modest declared meat share. None of that troubles the job it was hired for. As a plain, wheat-free bowl for a dog with a delicate middle, it does what it promises.

Ingredients, as declared: Whole grain maize, Lamb meal (min 16%), Prairie meal, Chicken fat, Whole grain oats (min 4%), Whole grain barley, Full fat linseed, Rice (min 4%), Hydrolysed lamb, Unmolassed beet pulp, Salmon oil (source of omega 3 fatty acids), Alfalfa, Peas, Carrots, (min 4% vegetables) Minerals, Yeast (source of mannan oligosaccharides, 2,000mg/kg), Chamomile, Mint, Aniseed, Comfrey, (min 0.35% herbs), Blackcurrant, Rosemary, Pomegranate, Rosehips, Yucca schidigera, Beetroot

Lamb meal at a declared minimum of 16% is the recipe's anchor, and meal is the concentrated, pre-dried form, so its share is not shrunk by cooking the way fresh meat would be. The palatant is hydrolysed lamb, sitting further down the list to give the kibble its flavour. Protein converts to 28.6% of dry matter, a solid figure for a food this plain.

The starch comes from maize in first place, with oats and rice each declared at a minimum of 4% and barley between them. Wheat is nowhere on the list, which is rather the point: plenty of dogs labelled sensitive are really just wheat-weary. Carbohydrate is estimated at 48.0% of dry matter, a touch above the 46.2% typical of adult dry food. Prairie meal, a concentrated protein made from maize, quietly supports the protein line from the plant side.

The digestive supports are the most considered part of the label. Unmolassed beet pulp supplies gentle fermentable fibre. The yeast is there for mannan oligosaccharides, a prebiotic that feeds the friendlier residents of the gut, and its dose is printed on the label. A herb line declared at a minimum of 0.35% brings chamomile, mint and aniseed, seasoning-level inclusions chosen to sit kindly.

Allergy households need one plain fact. Chicken fat does the everyday animal fat work here and salmon oil brings the omega 3. Both are worthwhile inclusions, and both mean there is more than lamb in this bowl. For everyday sensitive feeding that rarely matters. A formal elimination trial is a stricter test.

Linseed, alfalfa, peas and carrots round out the working list ahead of the fruit and botanical tail, with vegetables declared at a minimum of 4%. Everything after the minerals is flourish rather than load-bearing wall, which is exactly where flourishes belong.

£3.03 a kilo, sold as a 14kg sack or a 2.5kg bucket.

As a guide, a 15kg adult dog in moderate condition gets through about 243 grams a day, roughly £0.74, working from the standard maintenance estimate of around 840 kcal a day (110 × bodyweight^0.75). The label's own table asks 175 to 340 grams across the 10kg to 25kg bracket, so let your dog's waistline arbitrate.