Dr John

Dr John Hypoallergenic: Duck and Salmon review

Name: Dr John Hypoallergenic: Duck and Salmon
Brand: Dr John

56.9/100Good

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

56.9/100Good

Protein and processingAverage

Nutritional balanceAverage

TransparencyExcellent

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

Duck

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

Duck meal, salmon meal14% eachThe smallest combined meat share in the range.
Whole grain maize
Whole grain rice20%The plainest starch of the lot.
Whole grain barley18%
Sunflower oilIn place of chicken fat.
Peas4%
Beet pulpA moderate fermentable fibre.
Salmon oil0.625%
Minerals, yucca extract

Moisture is not declared, so the dry matter figures are worked from an assumed 8%.

Named ingredients

Duck meal (14%) & salmon meal (14%), whole grain maize, whole grain rice (20%), whole grain barley (18%), sunflower oil, peas (4%), beet pulp, salmon oil (0.625%), minerals, yucca extract.

Against the range

Meat: 14% duck meal, 14% salmon meal; 26% chicken or lamb on the other two
Chicken: None anywhere on the list; Chicken fat in both others
Fish: Salmon meal and salmon oil; None in the other two
Protein, dry matter: 26.1%; 23.1% on the other two

Reach for this one when chicken is what you are avoiding, and skip it for a dog kept off fish.

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

343 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

24%

Fat

10.5%

Fibre

Ash

Dry weight

Protein

26.1%

Fat

11.4%

Fibre

2.2%

Ash

7.6%

Carbs

52.7%

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

14%

Carbs

73.3%

Oils

7.8%

Other

Pricing & size