Husse Kyckling Chunks review

Our scoring can only reward what a label is willing to declare, and this one declares its chicken and leaves everything else in categories. That is why it comes out in our Average band against the Excellent band the typical adult wet food reaches. Protein and processing reads Poor for that reason, while transparency itself comes back Excellent. Nutritional balance tells a happier story at Outstanding, with protein converting to 42.5% of dry matter, fat to 30.0%, and an estimated carbohydrate share sitting below the wet norm. Take the placement as a comment on the paperwork rather than on the dinner, because there is nothing in the analysis here that would give anyone pause.

Ingredients, as declared: meat and animal derivatives 42% (chicken 12%), cereals, eggs and egg derivatives, minerals.

Chicken at 12% is the one thing on this label you can be certain about. It sits inside meat and animal derivatives at 42%, a legal term covering the meaty parts and processing leftovers of warm-blooded land animals. The remainder could be almost anything, and it could be something different next time round. The 12% is a real declaration and worth having; it is also the smaller part of the animal content.

Cereals comes next, unnamed, and behind it eggs and egg derivatives. Egg is a genuinely good ingredient, high in usable protein and carrying a useful spread of minerals and micronutrients for its weight. The grain is the open question, because that one word covers every cereal there is and lets the maker move between them without altering a thing on the pack.

On the analysis this is a perfectly reasonable wet food. Protein converts to 42.5% of dry matter and fat to 30.0%, and energy comes out at 97 kcal per 100g. The estimated carbohydrate stays at 11.5% of dry matter, under the 15.8% of the typical adult wet food. Ash is high at 13.5% of dry matter, a sign of meaningful mineral or bone content in the mix.

The declared additives are three vitamins, A, D3 and E, each with a figure beside it. No trace elements are printed, so the minerals on the ingredient list are doing that job quietly, and a label built this way will not let you check a calcium level.

£4.88 a kilo. The 400 g size comes singly and in cases of 24.

As a guide, a 15kg adult dog in moderate condition works out at roughly £4.22 a day, which is about 864 grams, on the standard assumption of 840 kcal a day (110 × bodyweight^0.75).