Happy Dog Professional: Gold Power 26/20 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.

• Poultry protein (of which chicken meat)30% (12%)Dried, and named properly. The clearest quality signal on this shelf.
• Rice23%
• Rice flour23%
• Oils and fatsStill no source, even here.
• Salmon meal4%The omega 3 source, and fish.
• Dried beet pulp, hydrolysed protein, minerals
• Apple pomace, chicory powder, mussel powder

Zinc at 70 mg, copper at 12 mg and iodine at 1.5 mg per kilo, all dosed in print.

Label style

Named ingredients with percentages

Categories on the other seven

Meat

Poultry protein 30%, 12% chicken

7% to 20% inside a derivatives bracket

Carbohydrate, dry matter

39.7%

Up to 55.4% on Basis

Energy

406 kcal per 100g

The densest bag in the line

The best declared recipe of the eight and the one to choose from this shelf.

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

£2.65 (RRP)

Pack

20kg

A 15kg dog eats (our estimate)

185 to 225 g a day, 205 in the middle

Cost per day, 15kg dog

£0.54

Budget end of the market for a dry food, though you pay a little more than the analysis alone would justify.