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Whistler's Whistlers Hypoallergenic Dog Food: Irish Beef with Veg & Oats review

Name: Whistler's Whistlers Hypoallergenic Dog Food: Irish Beef with Veg & Oats
Brand: Whistler's

65.5/100Good

DryAdult

Flavour

A short range built to be read in one go: one named meat at the top of each list, a plain starch base under it. Every meat goes in dried, so the percentage on the label is close to what reaches the bowl. The tail of joint and gut extras runs longer than the shelf usually bothers with.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Narrowing down a suspected trigger, as each recipe leads on one named meat
Dogs that get on with cereal; rice, oats and barley do the carrying
Older dogs feeling their joints. Every recipe has a joint ingredient with a printed dose
A small dog, with a Small Breeds kibble sized and dosed for them
The gut side covered: mannan oligosaccharides on the chicken recipes, chicory inulin on the beef

Worth watching

The Irish Beef also carries chicken fat and an unnamed hydrolysed liver protein
Salmon oil and green lipped mussel in the chicken recipes, so neither is fish free
Grain in all three, so none suits a dog that must stay clear of it

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

How this scores

How we score

65.5/100Good

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceAverage

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adult dogs, the Small Breeds kibble for small dogs and the other two for every size. Whistlers asks 165 to 330 grams a day for a dog of 10kg to 25kg, so let the waistline settle it.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Beef

The score, in context

Irish Beef 65.5
Chicken 62.1
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.

What's in it

Dehydrated beef37%The largest meat share in the range.
Sweet potato, potato, peas
Dehulled oatsThe grain here.
Chicken fatA second animal on a beef label.
Beet pulp, whole linseed
Minerals and vitamins, seaweed meal
Hydrolysed liver proteinNo species named. There to keep the bowl interesting.
Yeast extract, chicory inulin, yuccaInulin does the prebiotic work.

Vitamins A, D and E, iron, copper, manganese, zinc and iodine, plus glucosamine at 100mg/kg and chondroitin at 75mg/kg in the panel.

Chicken fat and an unnamed liver protein mean this is not beef and beef alone.

Named ingredients

Dehydrated Beef (37%), Sweet Potato, Potato, Peas, Dehulled Oats, Chicken Fat, Beet Pulp, Whole Linseed, Minerals and Vitamins, Seaweed Meal, Hydrolysed Liver Protein, Yeast Extract, Chicory Inulin, Yucca schidigera

Against the range

Meat: Dehydrated beef, 37%; 26% on the chicken recipes.
Ash, dry matter: 10.4%; Highest of the three, from a mineral-rich meat.
Joint support: Glucosamine and chondroitin; Glucosamine or green lipped mussel on the chicken bags.
Moisture: Declared; Not declared on the Small Breeds.

The strongest of the three and the meatiest, though not a single-animal bag.

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.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

342.9 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

24%

Fat

13%

Fibre

2.1%

Ash

9.5%

Moisture

Dry weight

Protein

26.4%

Fat

14.3%

Fibre

2.3%

Ash

10.4%

Carbs

46.6%

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

37.5%

Carbs

58.1%

Veg

0.6%

Oils

2.1%

Other

1.7%

Pricing & size