Husse Hypoallergenic Digest Adult review

Our banding lands this in the Good band, and the typical adult dry food lands there too, so read it as a food that trades headline nutrition for a gentle build. Protein converts to 25.0% of dry matter, unremarkable for a kibble, and estimated carbohydrate to 48.5% against the 46.2% typical. Set against that, the vitamins and trace minerals are dosed line by line and the cereal is held to rice alone. For the dog it names, an adult whose digestion needs an easy life, none of that reads as a drawback.

Ingredients, as declared: 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.

Dried lamb leads the list. Drying takes the water out before weighing, so the lamb holds its place once the kibble is baked. No percentage is printed against it. Protein lands at 25.0% of dry matter, comfortable rather than muscular, which is the usual shape of a recipe written around digestion. Most dogs break lamb down easily, and it sits well away from the chicken that so many sensitive dogs have already fallen out with.

Brown rice, rice and rice flour make up the grain side, and staying inside one cereal family is the sensible choice on a food like this. Brown rice keeps its bran, so it brings a little more fibre and a slower release than the white. The trade is a fuller carbohydrate figure, estimated at 48.5% of dry matter against 46.2% for the typical adult dry food. The rice is doing real work in the bowl.

The digestive kit is small and sensible. Inulin at 0.3% is a prebiotic, food for the bacteria living in the large intestine. Vegetable fibres add the bulk that keeps things regular, and brewer's yeast brings B vitamins along with a little protein. Crude fibre sits at 2.7% of dry matter, low enough not to loosen a dog who is already unsettled.

The hypoallergenic label is worth reading precisely. Wheat, maize and soya are all absent and only one land meat is named, which is the genuinely useful part. Dried salmon and salmon oil do put fish in the bowl, though. Neither the fat nor the hydrolysate says which animal it came from. For a dog whose trigger you already know, that may be everything you need. For a formal elimination trial run with your vet, those unnamed entries are the lines to raise at the appointment.

The omega fats come from linseed at 2% and salmon oil at 1%. Marine algae adds trace minerals from the sea, and L-carnitine is dosed at 300 mg per kilo. The vitamin and mineral panel is printed in full, zinc at 65 mg and vitamin E at 500 mg among the entries. The sepiolite listed at the end is a clay processing aid, not a nutrient.

£6.33 a kilo, with 2kg, 7kg and 12kg bags listed, plus a twin pack of the 12kg.

On the standard maintenance estimate of about 840 kcal a day for a 15kg adult dog in moderate condition (110 × bodyweight^0.75), that is roughly 236 grams a day and £1.50. For a dog of 10kg to 20kg the bag's own table asks 115 to 260 grams, and that brackets the estimate neatly. A body condition check every few weeks will show where in that range your dog sits.