Husse

Husse Hypoallergenic Digest Adult review

Name: Husse Hypoallergenic Digest Adult
Brand: Husse

55.4/100Good

DryAdult

A lamb and rice kibble written around a settled gut, and it reads Good on our banding. The digestive thinking is in the small print: inulin, brewer's yeast and crude fibre held at 2.7% of dry matter. Protein is a modest 25.0% of dry matter, which is the usual shape for a recipe like this.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Dogs with easily upset stomachs. Inulin at 0.3% feeds the gut bacteria and the fibre stays soft
Moving a dog off chicken: lamb is the only land meat on the list
Dogs that do better on rice than on wheat or maize
A big dog and a little one in the same house, since one bag portions from 1kg up to 60kg

Worth watching

Dried salmon and salmon oil, plus an unnamed animal fat and hydrolysed protein, which limit the hypoallergenic promise
Calcium at 1.96% of dry matter, one for your vet if minerals are being restricted

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

How this scores

How we score

55.4/100Good

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceAverage

TransparencyAverage

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults of every size. For a formal elimination trial, raise the unnamed fat and hydrolysate with your vet before ordering.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Lamb

The score, in context

Husse Hypoallergenic Digest Adult 55.4

All one Good. Typical dry food: Good.

A food that trades headline nutrition for a gentle build, which for an adult whose digestion needs an easy life is no drawback.

What's in it

Dried lambWeighed dry, so it holds its place after baking. Sits well away from chicken.
Brown rice, riceBrown rice keeps its bran, for a little more fibre and a slower release.
Animal fatNo species named.
Rice flourThe cereal stays inside one family.
Dried salmonPuts fish in a food sold as hypoallergenic.
Brewer's yeastB vitamins and a little protein.
Linseed2%Plant omega fats.
Hydrolysed animal proteinUnnamed source; a line to raise in an elimination trial.
Salmon oil1%
Vegetable fibres, minerals, inulin, marine algae0.3% inulinInulin is a prebiotic; the algae bring trace minerals.

A full panel printed line by line, with zinc at 65 mg, vitamin E at 500 mg and L-carnitine at 300 mg per kilo; sepiolite is a clay processing aid.

Calcium works out at 1.96% of dry matter. Mention it to your vet when minerals are being restricted.

Named ingredients

Dried lamb, brown rice, rice, animal fat, rice flour, dried salmon, brewer's yeast, linseed (2%), hydrolysed animal protein, salmon oil (1%), vegetable fibres, minerals, inulin (0.3%, source of fructo-oligosaccharides), marine algae.

Against the range

Lamb is the only land meat named, and rice in three forms is the only cereal. Wheat, maize and soya are absent. Salmon turns up twice, as dried fish and as oil, and the animal fat and hydrolysed protein give no species.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

355.6 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

23%

Fat

14%

Fibre

2.5%

Ash

7.9%

Dry weight

Protein

25%

Fat

15.2%

Fibre

2.7%

Ash

8.6%

Carbs

48.5%

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

42.9%

Carbs

46%

Veg

Oils

6.1%

Other

4.1%

Pricing & size