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Tails.com Example Recipes Adult Hypoallergenic: Tailored Blend For Cocker Spaniel review

Name: Tails.com Example Recipes Adult Hypoallergenic: Tailored Blend For Cocker Spaniel
Brand: Tails.com

64.2/100Good

DryAdult

Flavour

Worked examples of a Tails.com hypoallergenic blend written for a named breed, all five in our Good band. Chicken meal leads every list, a concentrated protein that does not shrink in the oven, and there is no grain and no fish on any of them. The second meat is named only as poultry.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Owners of a Bichon Frise, Cocker Spaniel, Labrador, Rottweiler or Staffie, who get the blend written for their breed
Dogs kept away from fish. Linseed does the omega 3 work
Chicken eaters, since the chicken package is the largest declared share every time
A dog that does better with no cereal at all
Stiffening joints, with glucosamine and chondroitin in all five

Worth watching

Poultry named by family only, so a strict elimination plan cannot count on chicken alone
No printed amount for the glucosamine or chondroitin
Added salt, which matters for a dog with a heart or blood pressure history

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

How this scores

How we score

64.2/100Good

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceAverage

TransparencyExcellent

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Each blend is written around one breed, for adults. If the food is for an elimination trial, ask Tails.com which bird the poultry entry is.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

Tailored Blend For Cocker Spaniel 64.2
Tailored Blend For Staffordshire Bull Terrier 64.2
Tailored Blend For Bichon Frise 63.6
Tailored Blend For Labrador Retriever 62.7
Tailored Blend For Rottweiler 60.7

All five Good. Typical dry food: Good.

The construction barely moves, so the spread is narrow; the breed on the bag should decide it, not the order they finish in.

What's in it

Chicken: chicken meal, chicken offal, chicken fat, chicken gravy37%Meal carries its protein through cooking; offal brings what a dog would take from the organs.
Sweet potatoesFibre and vitamin A along with the starch.
PotatoesMostly starch.
Poultry: poultry meal, poultry fat, poultry gravy8%Named only as a family: chicken, turkey, duck or goose, never saying which.
Beet pulpSlow fermenting fibre that firms a stool.
LinseedThe omega 3 source, with no fish oil.
Minerals and vitamins, dried seaweedSeaweed for iodine.
Salt
Glucosamine hydrochloride, chondroitin sulphateAfter the salt, and no amount printed.
Yucca extract

Zinc, manganese, iron, copper, iodine and selenium each with a printed dose, plus vitamins A, D3 and E; the mineral forms are not given.

Named ingredients

Chicken 37% (Chicken Meal, Chicken Offal, Chicken Fat, Chicken Gravy), Sweet Potatoes, Potatoes, Poultry 8% (Poultry Meal, Poultry Fat, Poultry Gravy), Beet Pulp, Linseed, Minerals and Vitamins, Dried Seaweed, Salt, Glucosamine Hydrochloride, Chondroitin Sulphate, Yucca Extract.

Against the range

Protein, dry matter: 30.0%; Joint highest, with the Staffie blend
Carbohydrate, dry matter: 45.6%; The lowest; up to 50.0% in the Rottweiler
Chicken: 37%; 33% to 40% across the set

Built to the same specification as the Staffordshire Bull Terrier blend, so the pair read alike on paper.

Every blend leads on a chicken package of meal, offal, fat and gravy, declared from 33% to 40%, with a second entry named only as poultry at 7.6% to 8.2%. Sweet potatoes and potatoes do the binding, with no wheat, maize or rice on any list. Linseed carries the omega 3 and there is no fish anywhere.

What moves between blends is the chicken share, which climbs as the dog gets smaller. Protein runs from 27.1% to 30.0% of dry matter, and carbohydrate from 45.6% to 50.0%.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

361.4 kcal/100g

Protein

27.6%

Fat

9.9%

Fibre

3.8%

Ash

8.7%

Moisture

Dry weight

Protein

30%

Fat

10.8%

Fibre

4.1%

Ash

9.5%

Carbs

45.6%

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

45%

Carbs

46.4%

Veg

1.6%

Other

7.1%

Pricing & size