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Happy Dog Sensible: Iberico Pork Grain-Free (Andalucia) review

Name: Happy Dog Sensible: Iberico Pork Grain-Free (Andalucia)
Brand: Happy Dog

47.8/100Average

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

47.8/100Average

Protein and processingAverage

Nutritional balancePoor

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

Pork

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

RiceHeads the list on a bag named grain free.
Protein from Ibérico pigs20%
Rice protein
Poultry fatSo this pork recipe is not free of poultry.
Beet pulp, hydrolysed liver, apple pomaceThe liver names no animal.
Sunflower oil, rapeseed oil
Potassium chloride, yeast, sodium chloride, seaweed, linseed
Peppers, tomatoes, olive leaves, courgettes0.5% in total
Mussel meat and dried herbsherbs 0.16%

Grain-free on the bag, but rice is the first ingredient.

Poultry fat and hydrolysed liver mean more than one animal is in here.

Named ingredients

Rice, protein from Ibérico pigs* (20%), rice protein*, poultry fat, beet pulp* (desugared), hydrolysed liver, apple pomace*, sunflower oil, potassium chloride, yeast*, sodium chloride, rapeseed oil, seaweed*, linseed, peppers* (red and green), rosemary, tomatoes*, olive leaves*, courgettes*, mussel meat* (0.05 %), yeast* (extract), milk thistle, artichoke, dandelion, ginger, birch leaves, stinging nettle, camomile, coriander, sage, liquorice root, thyme (total vegetables: 0.5 %, total dried herbs: 0.16 %); *) dried

Against the range

Animal: Ibérico pork 20%; Pork appears nowhere else in the range
Fat: Poultry fat, named; Oils and fats, unnamed, on most others
Vegetables: Mediterranean mix 0.5%; Greece runs a similar mix

Pork is the draw here, though the poultry fat rules it out for a bird-sensitive dog.

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

333.5 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

21%

Fat

10%

Fibre

2.5%

Ash

8.5%

Dry weight

Protein

22.8%

Fat

10.9%

Fibre

2.7%

Ash

9.2%

Carbs

54.4%

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

5.8%

Carbs

61.7%

Veg

2.4%

Oils

8.2%

Other

21.9%

Pricing & size