Husse

Husse Light Chunks with Veal review

Name: Husse Husse Light Chunks with Veal
Brand: Husse

35/100Average

WetAdult

Husse Light Chunks with Veal takes a lighter analysis and puts veal at the head of it, in a large size meant for a household with a big dog or several to feed. Animal content is declared at 42% with veal named at 5.5%, and cereals, egg and minerals complete the list. It lands in our Average band. What drives that placement is the share of the recipe described in general terms, not anything the analysis shows.

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Our view

Likely to suit

A big pack and a lighter recipe suit each other well when you have more than one waistline to think about.

Dogs with a little to lose, since this is built as the lighter option with fat at 27.5% of dry matter
Multi-dog households and owners of large dogs, with a 1275 g size covering a good many bowls at once
Dogs that have grown tired of chicken, since veal is the meat named here
Dogs that prefer chunks and gravy to a smooth paté, whatever else is changing in their diet
Owners who want protein kept up while calories come down, with protein converting to 37.5% of dry matter

Worth watching

The name promises a particular meat, so it is worth seeing how much of it the label actually pins down.

Veal is declared at 5.5% inside a 42% animal share, so most of the meat is not attributed to any species
Veal comes from cattle, so it counts as beef on an avoidance list
Cereals is unnamed and egg is present, so two of the more common triggers are in the recipe without full detail
At 95 kcal per 100g the energy saving over an ordinary wet food is small, so the serving size does the real work

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

How this scores

How we score

35/100Average

Protein and processingPoor

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyExcellent

ValueAverage

The Details

Dog fit

A big pack and a lighter recipe suit each other well when you have more than one waistline to think about. The name promises a particular meat, so it is worth seeing how much of it the label actually pins down.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult

The score, in context

This is an Average band food on our scoring while the typical adult wet food is an Excellent band one, so it is worth being plain about where that difference lies. It is not in the analysis: protein converts to 37.5% of dry matter and fat to 27.5%, sensible figures for a lighter recipe, and the energy is where a light food should be. It is in the naming. Only veal at 5.5% is tied to an animal and the grain is a category, so protein and processing reads Poor, while nutritional balance comes back Outstanding and transparency Excellent. A fuller label on exactly the same food would move it up.

What's in it

Ingredients, as declared: meat and animal derivatives 42% (veal 5.5%), cereals, eggs and egg derivatives, minerals.

Named ingredients

Meat and animal derivatives 42% (veal 5.5%), cereals, eggs and egg derivatives, minerals.

Nutritional additives

Nutritional additives/kg: vitamin A (3a672a) 1200 IU, vitamin D3 160 IU, vitamin E (3a700i) 5 mg.

Ingredient notes

Veal at 5.5% is the only named animal, sitting inside meat and animal derivatives at 42%. That term is drawn broadly enough to cover any warm-blooded land animal and any part of one. That is why a named 5.5% carries so much weight on a label of this kind: it is the only line you can hold the maker to.

Cereals and eggs and egg derivatives fill out the rest. Egg earns its place, dense in high quality protein and minerals for its size. Cereals could be any grain at all, and it can differ from one production run to another with no word altering on the pack.

The lighter build shows in the analysis. Fat converts to 27.5% of dry matter and protein to 37.5%, with energy at 95 kcal per 100g against the 97 kcal of the typical adult wet food. Estimated carbohydrate rises to 19.0% of dry matter, above the 15.8% wet typical, which is the arithmetic you get when fat comes out of a recipe and the grain stays where it was.

Vitamins A, D3 and E are printed with doses and that is the extent of the declared panel. Ash converts to 13.5% of dry matter, a high mineral content for a wet food, which probably reflects bone in the animal fraction as well as the added minerals.

Price and value

£3.33 a kilo, in a 1275 g size, also sold in cases of 12.

As a guide, a 15kg adult dog in moderate condition comes to around £2.95 a day, or roughly 887 grams, on an assumed 840 kcal a day (110 × bodyweight^0.75, the standard maintenance estimate).

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

94.7 kcal/100g

Protein

7.5%

Fat

5.5%

Fibre

0.5%

Ash

2.7%

Moisture

80%

Dry weight

Protein

37.5%

Fat

27.5%

Fibre

2.5%

Ash

13.5%

Carbs

19%

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

49.8%

Added water

34.8%

Carbs

13%

Other

2.3%

Pricing & size