Husse Light Chunks with Chicken review

Light recipes are often marked down for the starch that arrives when the fat leaves, and part of that shows up here, but the bigger factor is the wording on the pack. This one lands in our Average band where the typical adult wet food reaches our Excellent band, with protein and processing reading Poor, transparency reading Excellent and nutritional balance Outstanding. Protein still converts to 37.5% of dry matter, a decent showing for a lighter recipe, and there is nothing in the analysis to be uneasy about. What our scoring cannot do is give credit to an animal share that never names its animals.

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

The list is short and almost entirely general: meat and animal derivatives at 42%, cereals, eggs and egg derivatives, minerals. Chicken at 12% is the single named animal, which is a real piece of information to have, and everything either side of it is a category the maker can fill as supply allows.

The analysis carries the light claim, not the ingredient list. Fat converts to 27.5% of dry matter and protein to 37.5%, both a step down from a standard wet recipe. Energy comes out at 95 kcal per 100g against 97 for the typical adult wet food. That is a gentle trim rather than a dramatic one, which is worth knowing before you rely on the recipe alone to do the slimming.

The trade-off shows on the other side of the analysis. Estimated carbohydrate converts to 19.0% of dry matter where the typical adult wet food runs at 15.8%, the usual arithmetic of taking fat out and leaving the cereal share where it stood. Fibre stays low at 2.5% of dry matter, so this is not a food using bulk to fill a dog up between meals.

Egg is the best described ingredient on the list and a good one, bringing high quality protein with a useful spread of minerals behind it. The added panel is vitamin A, vitamin D3 and vitamin E with figures printed, and ash at 13.5% of dry matter points to a solid mineral content sitting behind that unnamed minerals entry.

£4.88 a kilo, sold in a 400 g size and in cases of 24.

As a guide, feeding a 15kg adult dog in moderate condition comes to about £4.33 a day, or roughly 887 grams, assuming 840 kcal a day (110 × bodyweight^0.75, the standard maintenance estimate).