Whistler's Whistlers Hypoallergenic Dog Food: Chicken with Rice & Veg review

1. Irish Beef 65.5
2. Chicken 62.1
3. Small Breeds 58.1

All three Good. Typical dry food: Good.

The size of the meat share is what separates them, and the Irish Beef reads strongest of the three.

• Dehydrated chicken26%Dried, so the water has already gone.
• White rice, brown rice20% eachThe only recipe naming both rices.
• Chicken fat
• Alfalfa, full fat linseed, peas4% vegetables
• Yeast
• Salmon oil0.5%The omega 3 source.
• SaltA flavour enhancer; the raw ingredients usually supply plenty of sodium.
• Mannan oligosaccharides, glucosamine1,400mg/kg, 1,000mg/kgGlucosamine is the joint entry, dosed on the ingredients list.
• Milk thistle, seaweed, nettle, yucca, blackcurrantSeasoning level.
• Green lipped mussel, kale, beetroot, rosemary

Vitamins A, D and E, with zinc both as a sulphate and as the more readily absorbed amino acid chelate, carnitine, and selenium as sodium selenite.

Meat

Dehydrated chicken, 26%

37% beef in the Irish Beef.

Carbohydrate, dry matter

47.8%

46.6% in the beef, 41.3% in the Small Breeds.

Fat, dry matter

15.4%

19.6% in the Small Breeds.

The plainest of the three, for a chicken eater that gets on with rice.

Each bag opens on one dried meat, so the declared share arrives close to the label figure. That is dehydrated chicken at 26%, chicken meal at 26% in the Small Breeds, dehydrated beef at 37%. Under it sits a plain, named starch base of rice, oats, barley or potato, and none of the three is grain free.

The supportive tail runs longer than usual, with milk thistle, seaweed, kale, beetroot and a dosed joint entry in every recipe. Carnitine is dosed on all three panels.

Price per kilo

£2.92 (RRP)

Pack

2kg, 12kg

A 15kg dog eats

165 to 330 g a day, 250 in the middle

Cost per day, 15kg dog

£0.73

Budget end of the market for a dry food, and fair value for the quality.