Dr Clauders

Dr Clauders Hyposensitive: Duck & Potato (Mini) review

Name: Dr Clauders Hyposensitive: Duck & Potato (Mini)
Brand: Dr Clauders

52.1/100Good

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

52.1/100Good

Protein and processingAverage

Nutritional balancePoor

TransparencyExcellent

ValueGood

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

Small

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 flour53%
Duck protein, dried20%
Beet pulp, potato protein
Poultry fatUnnamed bird.
Linseed
Protein hydrolysate (from the duck)The only hydrolysate in the line tied to its headline animal.
Apple, fish oil, chicory powder1% each
Mono calcium phosphate, yeast, sodium chloride
Safflower oil

Vitamins and trace minerals dosed in full, with no vitamin C declared on this one.

Moisture is not declared, so the dry matter figures rest on an assumed 8%.

Named ingredients

53% potato flour:, 20% duck protein (dried):, beet pulp (dried):, potato protein:, poultry fat:, linseed:, protein hydrolysate (from the duck):, 1% apple (dried):, 1% fish oil:, 1% chicory powder:, mono calcium phosphate:, yeast (dried):, sodium chloride:, safflower oil:.

Against the range

Kibble: Mini, for small dogs; Standard size on the other four.
Pro Digest: Not on this label; On the other four.
Hydrolysate: From the duck; Unnamed or vegetarian elsewhere.

The same idea in a smaller bite, and 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

340.1 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

21%

Fat

10%

Fibre

2.9%

Ash

6.2%

Dry weight

Protein

22.8%

Fat

10.9%

Fibre

3.2%

Ash

6.7%

Carbs

56.4%

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

21.9%

Carbs

70.1%

Veg

Oils

3.4%

Other

2.7%

Pricing & size