Dr Clauders

Dr Clauders Hyposensitive: Venison & Potato review

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

46.8/100Average

DryAdultSenior

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

46.8/100Average

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, Senior

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Venison

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 flour47%
Deer protein, dried15%The draw: a less common protein.
Potato protein, beet pulp
Deer meat5%
Chicken fatA second animal behind the venison.
Linseed, vegetarian protein hydrolysate
Monocalcium phosphate, potato starch, fish oil
Pro Digest 5 Complex, chicory powder0.75%, 0.73%
Yeast, calcium carbonate, sodium chloride, thistle oil

Vitamins and trace minerals declared dose by dose, with vitamin E at 70mg and zinc at 30mg.

Chicken fat and fish oil sit behind the venison.

Named ingredients

Potato flour 47%, deer protein (dried) 15%, potato protein, beet pulp, deer meat 5%, chicken fat, linseed, vegetarian protein hydrolysate, monocalcium phosphate, potato starch, fish oil, drClauder´s Pro Digest 5 Complex 0.75% (yeast, papaya powder, pineapple powder, cranberry powder, yeast beta glucans, inulin (FOS), spirulina powder, hemp flour), chicory powder 0.73%, yeast, (dried, incl. 0.05% glucans), calcium carbonate, sodium chloride, thistle oil.

Against the range

Animal: Deer, 15% dried and 5% meat; Duck, herring or salmon on the others.
Carbohydrate, dry matter: 52.4%; The lowest of the five.
Life stage: Adult and senior; Adult only on the others.

A novel-protein recipe, though not a venison-only one.

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

334 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

21%

Fat

11%

Fibre

Ash

8.3%

Moisture

Dry weight

Protein

23.1%

Fat

12.1%

Fibre

3.3%

Ash

9.1%

Carbs

52.4%

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

20.8%

Carbs

70.8%

Veg

0.7%

Oils

3.3%

Other

4.4%

Pricing & size