Happy Dog Professional: Basis 23/9.5 review

1. Gold Power 26/20 53.3
2. Puppy Mini Lamb 42.9
3. Sensitive Grainfree 24/14 41.6
4. High Energy 30/20 39.2
5. Adult Mini 36.6
6. Pro Body 25/20 34.9
7. Sportive 26/16 32.5
8. Basis 23/9.5 27.7

Eight recipes across Good and Average and Poor. Typical dry food: Good.

The recipes that commit to a named meat and starch sit at the top and the category-only labels sit lower; the spread measures what we can verify, not how a dog will do.

• Cereals (wheat, maize)Wheat named first.
• Meat and animal derivatives (poultry protein, meat meal)7% poultryThe smallest declared meat share in the line.
• Oils and fatsUnsourced.
• Derivatives of vegetable origin (apple pomace)
• Fish and fish derivatives, yeasts, minerals
• Seeds, vegetables, algae, milk and milk derivatives
• Mussel powder, vegetable protein extract, eggs, fruits0.01% mussel

Methionine at 900 mg per kilo, with the trace elements dosed in print.

Milk derivatives are on this label as well as egg and fish.

Meat

Poultry protein 7%

Up to 30% on Gold Power

Carbohydrate, dry matter

55.4%

39.7% on Gold Power

Fat

9.5%

20% on Gold Power, High Energy and Pro Body

The plainest recipe on the shelf, and the category style of the label is why it scores lowest.

Seven of the eight labels are written in the legal category style: cereals or vegetable derivatives, meat and animal derivatives, oils and fats. The bracket inside the meat entry names a poultry or lamb protein share, from 7% on Basis up to 20% on Sensitive Grainfree. Gold Power alone names its meat and rice outright.

Every recipe carries fish in some form and an unsourced oils and fats entry. The additive panels are dosed in print on all eight, each set to its own figures, and moisture is not declared on any of them.

Price per kilo

£2.00 (RRP)

Pack

20 kg

A 15kg dog eats (our estimate)

210 to 255 g a day, 230 in the middle

Cost per day, 15kg dog

£0.46

The cheapest bag in the line, though still more than the analysis alone would justify.