Husse

Husse Valp Digest review

Name: Husse Valp Digest
Brand: Husse

52.5/100Good

DryPuppy

The gentler recipe in the Husse puppy range, built to settle a slow stomach, and it sits in our Good band. Lamb leads, rice follows twice, and the tail is all fibre and prebiotic. Chicken and salmon join the lamb, so read it as a settling food and not a single-protein one.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Puppies whose digestion has been slow to settle, the brief this recipe answers
Small and medium pups who do well on lamb
Owners who like a prebiotic named and dosed: fructo-oligosaccharides at 0.5%
Hungry growing pups, at 395 kcal per 100g against a puppy kibble average of 376

Worth watching

Calcium at 1.74% of dry matter, above where large-breed growth plans usually sit
Lamb, chicken and salmon in one recipe, so it is no elimination diet

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

How this scores

How we score

52.5/100Good

Protein and processingAverage

Nutritional balanceAverage

TransparencyGood

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Listed for puppies of every size. If yours will finish large or giant, run the calcium past your vet before this becomes the everyday food.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Puppy

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Lamb

The score, in context

Husse Valp Digest 52.5

All one Good. Typical dry food: Good.

No single failing holds it in the pack: it is how much of the list arrives without a species attached, with cereal doing more of the work than the lamb headline implies.

What's in it

LambGentle on digestion and rarely refused. Likely fresh, so the oven shrinks its share.
Rice, rice flourAmong the gentlest starches for a sensitive gut, and the reason carbohydrate reaches 43.9% of dry matter.
Chicken
Animal fatNo species given.
Linseed, vegetable fibresPlant omega 3 and bulk.
Hydrolysed animal proteinAnother unnamed source.
Salmon, salmon oilMarine omega 3 for coat and brain.
Yeast, salt, potassium chlorideSalt for palatability, worth a note if you watch sodium.
Fructo-oligosaccharides0.5%The named prebiotic.
Lecithin, fatty acid salt, sea algae, rosemaryRosemary is a natural antioxidant that keeps the fats from turning.

Vitamins A, D3 and E, iron at 201 mg/kg, zinc from two sources, selenium and beta-carotene, plus clinoptilolite, a mineral clay used as a processing aid.

Calcium converts to 1.74% of dry matter, above large-breed growth plans. Check it with your vet for a pup heading for a big frame.

Named ingredients

Lamb, rice, rice flour, chicken, animal fat, linseed, vegetable fibres, hydrolysed animal protein, salmon, salmon oil, yeast, salt, fructo-oligosaccharides (0.5%), potassium chloride, lecithin, fatty acid salt, sea algae, rosemary.

Against the range

A single puppy kibble led by lamb, with rice and rice flour doing the binding and chicken, salmon and salmon oil further down. A digestion-minded tail of fibres, a dosed prebiotic and yeast closes the list, and the added panel is well filled.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

395.4 kcal/100g

Protein

26%

Fat

15%

Fibre

Ash

7.5%

Moisture

Dry weight

Protein

28.3%

Fat

16.3%

Fibre

3.3%

Ash

8.2%

Carbs

43.9%

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

50.9%

Carbs

40.3%

Veg

1.7%

Oils

3.7%

Other

3.3%

Pricing & size