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Dr John Hypoallergenic: Chicken With Oats review

Name: Dr John Hypoallergenic: Chicken With Oats
Brand: Dr John

56.4/100Good

DryAdultSenior

Flavour

Three short, largely named lists that let you pick the animal, all in our Good band. Chicken and lamb each declare 26% meat in a meal; duck and salmon pair two meals at 14% each. No wheat appears in any of the three.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Choosing by protein. Start from the animal that agrees with your dog
Food trials, with one short list per recipe and the meat percentage printed
Adult and senior dogs of any size
Owners steering clear of wheat
Homes that rotate proteins across one familiar shape of meal over grain

Worth watching

Hypoallergenic here means a short named list, and the food is not free of allergens
Chicken fat in the chicken and lamb recipes, so neither is chicken free for an exclusion trial

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

How this scores

How we score

56.4/100Good

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balancePoor

TransparencyGood

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults and seniors of every size. If chicken is the suspect, the duck and salmon is the only recipe without it.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult, Senior

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

Lamb 59.2
Duck 56.9
Chicken 56.4

All three Good. Typical dry food: Good.

The gap between the three is about how much meat each declares, and the duck and salmon's smaller share lets grain rise to fill the space.

What's in it

BarleyGentle on digestion and brings fibre.
Poultry meal26% chickenDried, so the figure holds up after the oven.
Maize
Chicken fat, chicken gravy
Oats4%Soft, soluble fibre for an easily upset gut.
Vegetables (peas)4%
Minerals, linseed
Yucca extractFor stool odour.

Named ingredients

Barley, poultry meal (26% chicken), maize, chicken fat, oats (4%), chicken gravy, vegetables (4% peas), minerals, linseed, yucca extract.

Against the range

Meat: Poultry meal, 26% chicken; 26% lamb on the lamb; 14% duck and 14% salmon on the third
Protein, dry matter: 23.1%; Same on the lamb, 26.1% on the duck and salmon
Ash, dry matter: 6.6%; Lowest of the three; the lamb reads 9.9%

The mildest of the three and the natural start if poultry has never troubled your dog.

Each recipe is built on a dried meat meal, so the printed percentage is near enough the protein your dog gets. Grain carries every bowl, barley, maize, oats or rice depending on the recipe, and wheat appears nowhere. Carbohydrate estimates run from 52.7% to 55.5% of dry matter.

Yucca extract is in all three for stool odour, and beet pulp in two as a gut-steadying fibre. Ash runs from 6.6% of dry matter on the chicken to 9.9% on the lamb, following the bone in each meal.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

339.5 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

21%

Fat

10.5%

Fibre

Ash

Moisture

Dry weight

Protein

23.1%

Fat

11.5%

Fibre

3.3%

Ash

6.6%

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

31.4%

Carbs

57.8%

Veg

2.6%

Oils

5.2%

Other

Pricing & size