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Happy Dog Sensible: Duck Grain-Free (Piemonte) review

Name: Happy Dog Sensible: Duck Grain-Free (Piemonte)
Brand: Happy Dog

49.1/100Average

DryAdult

Flavour

Twelve limited-ingredient kibbles, each built around one animal, from duck and lamb to horse, ostrich and rabbit. The range sits in our Average band, with the Canada rabbit and lamb alone reaching Good. Choose by the protein your dog needs.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Exclusion diets: Montana, Africa and Karibik each keep to one animal
A protein your dog has never met, with horse, ostrich and rabbit on offer
Grain-free feeding on France, Montana and Africa
Medium and larger breeds
Calories eased back on Toscana, with fat at 7.5%
Vegetarian households, on India

Worth watching

Oils and fats, hydrolysed protein and hydrolysed liver all unnamed
Greece and Andalucia are named grain free while rice heads both lists
India has egg and milk, so it is not vegan
Fish in several recipes, salmon meal leading Canada and Ireland

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

How this scores

How we score

49.1/100Average

Protein and processingAverage

Nutritional balanceAverage

TransparencyGood

ValueAverage

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adult medium and larger dogs. Portion by your dog's condition, not the scoop, and read the full list of whichever country you pick.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Medium, Giant

Main protein

Duck

The score, in context

Rabbit 50.8
Low Fat Duck 49.2
Duck Grain-Free (Piemonte) 49.1
Iberico Pork Grain-Free (Andalucia) 47.8
Salmon 46.2
Lamb 45.3
Lamb Grain-Free (Greece) 43.2
Duck Grain-Free (France) 43.1
Ostrich (Africa) 40.5
Horse (Montana) 38.0
Vegetarian (India) 36.7
Sea Fish (Karibik) 36.2

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

Not much daylight between the twelve: the Canada recipe edges ahead, and Karibik and India sit furthest back.

What's in it

Duck protein26%
Italian sweet chestnut flour26%Stands in for cereal; no other recipe here uses it.
Pea starch
Oils and fatsSource not named.
Fish meal from deep-sea fish4%A second animal behind the duck.
Beet pulp, apple pomace, linseed, sodium chloride, yeasts
Hydrolysed proteinSource not named.
Seaweed, linseed, mussel meat and a dried herb mixherbs 0.14%A pleasant touch at these doses.

A full vitamin and trace element list, with zinc partly as an amino acid chelate; no amounts are printed.

Deep-sea fish meal at 4% means this duck recipe is not single animal.

Named ingredients

Duck protein* (26 %), Italian sweet chestnut flour (26 %), pea starch, oils and fats, fish meal from deep-sea fish (4 %), beet pulp* (desugared), hydrolysed protein, apple pomace*, linseed, sodium chloride, yeasts*, seaweed*, mussel meat* (0.1 %), yeasts* (extract), milk thistle, artichoke, dandelion, ginger, birch leaves, stinging nettle, camomile, coriander (0.007%), rosemary, sage, liquorice root, thyme (total dried herbs: 0.14 %). *dried.

Against the range

Starch: Chestnut flour and pea starch; Potato, rice, maize or oats elsewhere
Fat, declared: 14%; Joint richest with Canada
Other animals: Fish meal 4%; None on the France duck

The richer of the two duck recipes, and the only one built on chestnut.

Twelve recipes, each named after a place and built around one animal or, in India, none. The plainest, France, Montana, Africa and Karibik, run to eight to ten entries: a starch, the named animal, a fat, beet pulp, apple pomace, salt and yeast extract. The rest add seaweed, linseed, mussel meat and herbs.

Potato carries the grain-free recipes, often with potato protein to lift protein without a second animal. Oils and fats, hydrolysed protein and hydrolysed liver go unnamed throughout. Carbohydrate estimates between 45.1% and 56.5% of dry matter, and no label prints a moisture figure.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

370.5 kcal/100g

Protein

23.5%

Fat

14%

Fibre

2.5%

Ash

7.5%

Dry weight

Protein

25.5%

Fat

15.2%

Fibre

2.7%

Ash

8.2%

Carbs

48.4%

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

30.1%

Carbs

54.9%

Veg

2.7%

Oils

6.6%

Other

5.8%

Pricing & size