Husse Sensitive Light review

This reads Average on our scale, a rung under the Good band that most adult dry foods occupy. The protein figure is what earns it, converting to 28.3% of dry matter, high for a recipe built around keeping weight in check. Fat is restrained at 10.3% and crude fibre sits at 3.3% to help a dog feel full between meals. Protein and processing reads Average, and so do nutritional balance and transparency. The unnamed animal entries hold them there, along with a carbohydrate figure that one cereal has to shoulder by itself.

Ingredients, as declared: chicken, rice, rice flour, animal fat, vegetable fibres, linseed, yeast, salmon oil, hydrolysed animal protein, salt, dried whole eggs, fructo-oligosaccharides (0.3%), lecithin, sea algae, Tagetes.

Chicken leads in the plain form rather than a dried one, so a share of that declared weight leaves as steam during cooking. The finished analysis holds up regardless, with protein at 28.3% of dry matter, the strongest single figure this recipe has to offer, and energy estimated at 334 kcal per 100g.

Rice and rice flour are the only cereals in the bag. Of the common grains, rice sits easiest on a delicate stomach. That is exactly why a food with sensitive on the front reaches for it and leaves wheat and maize out entirely. Carbohydrate still arrives at 50.5% of dry matter against the 46.2% typical, because one cereal doing all the starch work is still a lot of starch.

The weight side is handled quietly rather than loudly. Fat is held at 9.5% as fed, and crude fibre at 3.0% gives the stomach something to work on. L-carnitine, an amino acid that the body puts to work on stored fat, is dosed at 40 mg per kilo. Ash comes out at 7.6% of dry matter, on the higher side for a kibble, with calcium at 1.41%.

The omegas come from two directions, with linseed on the plant side and salmon oil on the marine one. Dried whole eggs add a little protein that digests very easily. Yeast supplies B vitamins, sea algae adds trace minerals, and Tagetes, better known as marigold, is a natural source of the carotenoids that lend a coat its warmth of colour.

Salt appears midway down the list as a flavour enhancer. A kibble's own ingredients usually carry enough sodium without help. It counts mainly for a dog already on a restricted sodium regime. The vitamin panel is generous by contrast, with vitamin E at 580 mg and vitamin C at 200 mg per kilo, and zinc declared twice at 108 mg and 12 mg. Clinoptilolite at 10 g per kilo does a manufacturing job, not a nutritional one.

£5.28 a kilo, sold in a 12.5 kg bag.

Taking a 15kg adult dog in moderate condition and around 840 kcal a day (110 × bodyweight^0.75, the standard maintenance estimate), the bowl works out at roughly 251 grams, or £1.33 a day. The label's own table asks 120 to 450 grams for a dog between 10kg and 30kg, and on a weight-management food the waistline is the figure that matters most.