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

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

60.7/100Good

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

60.7/100Good

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 gravy33%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.
Beet pulpSlow fermenting fibre that firms a stool.
Poultry: poultry meal, poultry fat, poultry gravy7.6%Named only as a family: chicken, turkey, duck or goose, never saying which.
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.

The blend flagged for weight management, and the only one with beet pulp above the poultry.

Named ingredients

Chicken 33% (Chicken Meal, Chicken Offal, Chicken Fat, Chicken Gravy), Sweet Potatoes, Potatoes, Beet Pulp, Poultry 7.6% (Poultry Meal, Poultry Fat, Poultry Gravy), Linseed, Minerals and Vitamins, Dried Seaweed, Salt, Glucosamine Hydrochloride, Chondroitin Sulphate, Yucca Extract.

Against the range

Fat, dry matter: 9.1%; The leanest of the five
Carbohydrate, dry matter: 50.0%; The highest here; 45.6% at the lowest
Chicken: 33%; The smallest share; up to 40% elsewhere

For a big dog that gains easily, the lean build is exactly the point.

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

355.8 kcal/100g

Protein

25.2%

Fat

8.4%

Fibre

3.9%

Ash

8.6%

Moisture

Dry weight

Protein

27.4%

Fat

9.1%

Fibre

4.2%

Ash

9.3%

Carbs

50%

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

40.6%

Carbs

50.1%

Veg

1.7%

Other

7.6%

Pricing & size