Husse Sensitive Weight Management Adult review

This one comes out in our Good band, which is where most adult dry foods also finish. Two things carry it there. A dried meat entry sits at the very front, so the protein you read about is protein that survived the oven. The analysis reaches 28.3% protein on a dry matter basis while keeping fat at 10.3%. Protein and processing reads Good and so does value, while nutritional balance and transparency both read Average. Neither the animal fat nor the hydrolysed protein is given a species, and rice carries the starch on its own.

Ingredients, as declared: dried chicken, brown rice, rice, animal fat, vegetable fibres (2%), hydrolysed animal protein, linseed (1%), salmon oil (1%), brewer's yeast, minerals, inulin (0.3%, source of fructo-oligosaccharides), dried eggs, marine algae.

Dried chicken opens the list, and on a food like this that matters more than usual. The water has already gone out of a dried meat. Where it sits on the label is where it sits in the finished kibble, and protein lands at 28.3% of dry matter. Holding protein up while pulling fat down is the whole trick of a slimming recipe, because it is body fat you want a dog to lose rather than muscle.

Brown rice and rice are the only cereals, with no wheat and no maize anywhere in the bag. Brown rice keeps its bran and so brings a little more fibre than the polished grain. Carbohydrate is estimated at 51.6% of dry matter against the 46.2% typical of adult dry food. That is simply what happens when fat is dialled back and the calories have to arrive another way. Energy is estimated at 338 kcal per 100g.

The supporting cast is small and deliberate. L-carnitine is dosed at 300 mg per kilo, and its job is to get stored fat burned off. Biotin at 1 mg looks after skin and coat through a slimming stretch. Vitamin C at 425 mg and vitamin E at 550 mg per kilo cover the antioxidant side. Inulin at 0.3% is prebiotic fibre, feeding the bacteria a settled gut depends on.

Linseed and salmon oil are both declared at 1%, so omega 3 arrives in its plant and marine forms. A dog can use the marine one straight away. Dried eggs and brewer's yeast are small entries that pull their weight, eggs for protein quality and yeast for its B vitamins. Marine algae adds iodine and other trace minerals.

Two entries stay vague. No species appears against the animal fat, and none against the hydrolysed protein beside it. The hydrolysed protein is there as a palatant, which is a sensible inclusion on a food a dog is being asked to eat less of. Calcium works out at 1.41% of dry matter, and sepiolite at 10 g per kilo is a clay used during manufacturing, not a nutrient.

£5.50 a kilo, sold in a 12 kg bag.

For a guide, take a 15kg adult dog in moderate condition needing about 840 kcal a day (110 × bodyweight^0.75, the standard maintenance estimate): that is roughly 249 grams, which comes to £1.37 a day. The label asks 130 to 320 grams for a dog of 10kg to 20kg, and on a food like this the honest measure is how your dog looks after four weeks on it.