Simpsons

Simpsons Premium Adult Sensitive: Duck & Potato review

Name: Simpsons Premium Adult Sensitive: Duck & Potato
Brand: Simpsons

53.5/100Good

DryAdult

Flavour

A grain-free range that answers a sensitive stomach by shortening the list. One animal leads each of the four bags, potato sits underneath, and all four land in our Good band. Beet pulp and a pair of prebiotics do the settling work.

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Our view

Likely to suit

A dog whose digestion prefers no cereal at all
Owners chasing a settled gut: beet pulp, brewers yeast, MOS and FOS are all in the mix
A dog that has stopped thriving on chicken and rice, with duck, lamb and salmon alongside
Rotation feeders. The four share one construction
Older dogs, with glucosamine, MSM and chondroitin in every bag

Worth watching

Salmon oil in every recipe, so none is fish free
Lamb gravy in the duck recipe rules out a duck-only trial
Dried egg in all four, if egg is the ingredient you are avoiding

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

How this scores

How we score

53.5/100Good

Protein and processingAverage

Nutritional balanceAverage

TransparencyExcellent

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults of every size, with the salmon also listed for seniors. The label asks 195 to 295 grams for dogs of 15kg to 25kg, and the waistline settles anything in between.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Duck

The score, in context

Chicken 62.0
Lamb 60.7
Salmon 53.6
Duck 53.5

All four Good. Typical dry food: Good.

The gaps between the four are small, and a working starch share and an unquantified vitamin line are what hold the range at Good.

What's in it

Duck: deboned duck, dried duck, duck fatmin 43%The leanest meat headline in the range, by a whisker.
Potatomin 26%
Beet pulp, brewers yeast
Lamb gravyA second animal in a duck recipe.
Dried egg, salmon oil
Minerals, linseeds, vitamins
Yucca extract, cranberries, nucleotides, MOS, FOS
Glucosamine, MSM, chondroitin

Lamb gravy on the label, so this is not a duck-only recipe.

Named ingredients

Duck (min 43% - Deboned Duck, Dried Duck, Duck Fat),Potato (min 26%), Beet Pulp,Brewers Yeast, Lamb Gravy, Dried Egg, Salmon Oil, Minerals, Linseeds, Vitamins, Yucca Extract, Cranberries, Nucleotides, Mannanoligosaccharides (MOS), Fructooligosaccharides (FOS), Glucosamine, MSM, Chondroitin.

Against the range

Meat: Duck, min 43%; Min 45% on the other three.
Gravy: Lamb; The chicken and lamb recipes match gravy to meat.
Ash, dry matter: 10.3%; 8.7% to 12% across the four.

A change of bird for a dog bored of chicken, with a lamb gravy to account for.

Each bag names one animal first with a minimum share, and a bracket shows how it is built; on the chicken, lamb and duck the animal fat sits inside that figure. Potato binds every recipe and no cereal appears anywhere. Beet pulp, brewers yeast, MOS, FOS and nucleotides do the digestive work, and salmon oil with linseeds supplies the omegas.

Protein converts to 27.2% of dry matter across the range, with estimated carbohydrate between 41.8% and 45.6%. Vitamins and minerals are two bare line items with no amounts. Glucosamine, MSM and chondroitin are in every bag.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

348.2 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

25%

Fat

14%

Fibre

Ash

9.5%

Moisture

Dry weight

Protein

27.2%

Fat

15.2%

Fibre

3.3%

Ash

10.3%

Carbs

44%

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

43.4%

Carbs

45.4%

Oils

1.7%

Other

9.5%

Pricing & size