Happy Dog NaturCroq: Beef & Rice review

1. Beef 57.7
2. Puppy 47.6
3. Active 47.3
4. Lamb 46.8
5. Duck 46.3
6. XXL Large Kibble 44.6
7. Salmon 43.5
8. Balance 43.1
9. Chicken 41.7
10. Senior 40.9

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

Scores spread wider than the shared design suggests: nine sit in Average and Beef & Rice climbs clear, so the recipe you pick matters more than the line.

• Meat meal, of which beef 75%12%The one recipe that leads on its named animal.
• Wholegrain wheat, wholegrain corn, wheat flour
• Wholegrain barley, cornmeal
• Rice flour8%
• Beet molasses pulpSugar-free.
• Poultry fat, beef fat
• Liver hydrolysate, poultry protein, fish meal, haemoglobinPoultry and fish behind the beef.
• Apple, yeast, carrots0.8% apple
• Green oats, sunflowers, cress, parsley0.3%

Vitamins and trace minerals listed without doses.

Score band

Good

The other nine sit in Average.

Lead entry

Meat meal, 75% beef

Poultry protein leads every other recipe.

Calcium, dry matter

1.25%

1.63% in the Lamb & Rice.

The clear pick of the line on our scoring, wider apart from the Lamb & Rice than the analyses suggest.

Ten recipes on one frame: a declared meat protein, a block of wheat and maize, and poultry fat and beef fat for energy. Beet pulp and apple pomace follow, then a green tail of oats, cress and parsley totalling 0.3%. Poultry protein turns up on all ten and outranks the named animal on the duck, lamb and salmon.

What changes is the animal on the front and how much of it there is, from salmon protein at 5% to poultry protein at 23% in Chicken & Rice. Haemoglobin and hydrolysed liver are used as palatants without a species, and meat meal mostly arrives without an animal attached.

Price per kilo

£2.59 (RRP)

Pack

1kg, 15kg, 15kg x 2

A 15kg dog eats

210 g a day

Cost per day, 15kg dog

£0.54

Budget end of the market, and the best value in the line for what it holds.