Dr Clauders

Dr Clauders Hyposensitive: Duck & Potato review

Name: Dr Clauders Hyposensitive: Duck & Potato
Brand: Dr Clauders

48.5/100Average

DryAdult

Flavour

Five kibbles built the way exclusion diets are: one named animal, one starch and as little else as possible. Potato leads every label. The mini duck and the herring reach our Good band and the other three sit just below in Average, where a potato-led kibble tends to land.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Dogs mid exclusion diet, one headline animal per recipe
Less common proteins, venison and herring among them
Dogs that struggle with cereal, potato doing all the starch work
A gut-focused kibble, chicory inulin on every label
Small dogs, the duck also coming as a mini kibble

Worth watching

Poultry fat, chicken fat or fish oil behind the headline meat on four of the five
Carbohydrate at 52.4% to 57.0% of dry matter, mostly potato
No calorie figure printed; ours are estimates

Written by our editorial team. Independent guidance, not veterinary advice.

How this scores

How we score

48.5/100Average

Protein and processingAverage

Nutritional balancePoor

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueAverage

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults of every size, the venison for seniors too and the mini for small dogs. A 15kg dog gets through around 215 grams a day; for a strict trial, read the fat line on your chosen recipe first.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Duck

The score, in context

Duck 52.1
Herring 51.0
Salmon 48.7
Duck 48.5
Venison 46.8

Five recipes across Good and Average. Typical dry food: Good.

Leaning on one starch is the price of a short list; judged as a tool for finding what a dog can eat, the range does its job, and the herring manages both.

What's in it

Potato flour50.0%All of the starch work.
Duck meat meal20%The headline animal.
Beet pulpFibre.
Potato proteinTops up the protein figure behind the meat.
Poultry fatAn unnamed bird behind the duck.
Linseed, protein hydrolysate, monocalcium phosphateThe hydrolysate names no species.
Fish oil
Apple, chicory powder1% eachChicory for inulin.
Pro Digest Complex0.75%Papaya, pineapple, cranberry and yeast glucans, there for support.
Yeast, sodium chloride

Vitamins and trace minerals declared dose by dose, from vitamin E at 400mg to selenium as sodium selenite.

Poultry fat and fish oil sit behind the duck, which matters for a strict trial.

Named ingredients

Potato flour (50.0%), duck meat meal (20%), beet pulp, potato protein, poultry fat, linseed, protein hydrolysate, monocalcium phosphate, fish oil, apple (dried, 1%), chicory powder (1%), Pro Digest Complex (papaya powder, fructo oligosaccharides, cranberry juice, pineapple powder, yeast beta glucans, hemp meal, spirulina powder (0.75%), yeast (dried, incl. 0.05% glucans), sodium chloride.

Against the range

Animal: Duck meat meal 20%; Herring, salmon, venison or dried duck on the others.
Carbohydrate, dry matter: 55.5%; 52.4% on the venison to 57.0% on the herring.
Extras: Apple, chicory, Pro Digest; The most furnished label of the line.

The standard bag of the range, duck-led more than duck-only.

The construction repeats: potato first, one named animal second, beet pulp for fibre, then a short tail of oils and gut ingredients. Chicory powder is on every label and the Pro Digest blend on four. Potato protein or dried peas top up the protein figure. Every label declares its vitamins and trace minerals dose by dose.

The fats are the catch. Poultry fat sits in the duck, the mini and the salmon, chicken fat in the venison and fish oil in most. That leaves the herring as the only recipe whose animal content stays in one family.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

335.6 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

21%

Fat

10%

Fibre

2.7%

Ash

6.7%

Moisture

Dry weight

Protein

23.1%

Fat

11%

Fibre

Ash

7.4%

Carbs

55.5%

As-fed composition

Estimated breakdown of the finished product by ingredient category, from the declared ingredient list and ingoing weights. These are estimates, not measurements.

Meat

20.8%

Carbs

71.1%

Veg

1.4%

Oils

3.2%

Other

3.6%

Pricing & size