WorkingHPRs

WorkingHPRs Senior: Grain Free Senior review

Name: WorkingHPRs Senior: Grain Free Senior
Brand: WorkingHPRs

62.9/100Good

DryAdultSenior

Flavour

Three different answers to what an older dog should eat, with the trout and turkey recipes in our Good band and the white fish in Average. Each keeps the fat down and prints its joint doses on the bag. They part ways on what fills the rest: fish and sweet potato, one bird, or rice and barley.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Older dogs with a weight to watch, with fat at 8.0% on two and 9.0% on the third
Stiffening joints, given printed doses of glucosamine, MSM and chondroitin on every bag
One named bird and nothing else, in the turkey
Dogs kept off cereal: two of the three build on sweet potato and potato
Slowing digestion, with FOS and MOS on both grain free labels
Lifelong cereal eaters, who will find rice, barley and oats in the white fish

Worth watching

Two of three fish led, so a fish-free dog wants the turkey
No species for the dried fish in the white fish recipe
Carbohydrate at 57.1% of dry matter in the white fish, against 46.2% typical
Pea and potato protein topping up Grain Free Senior

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

How this scores

How we score

62.9/100Good

Protein and processingAverage

Nutritional balanceAverage

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults and seniors of every size. Pick on the protein your dog already does well on, then let the waistline set the portion.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult, Senior

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Trout

The score, in context

Turkey 67.7
Grain Free Senior 62.9
White Fish 45.2

Three recipes across Good and Average. Typical dry food: Good.

The two meat-led recipes finish together and the white fish one rung lower, because it asks less of the meat; that does not make it a bad bowl for a dog raised on cereal.

What's in it

Trout and salmon: freshly prepared trout, dried salmon, freshly prepared salmon, salmon oil, salmon stock50%30% trout leads. Unusual in a senior food, and the 3% salmon oil is a proper marine omega 3.
Sweet potato24%
Potato, peas
Beet pulpFibre.
Pea protein, potato proteinLift the analysis without matching meat for digestibility.
Linseed
Minerals, vitamins, vegetable stock, asparagus
Glucosamine, methylsulfonylmethane, chondroitin sulphate170, 170, 125 mg/kgPrinted doses.
FOS, MOS92 mg/kg, 23 mg/kg

Vitamins A and D3 with six trace elements, each with a printed figure.

Named ingredients

Trout & Salmon 50% (including 30% Freshly Prepared Trout, 11% Dried Salmon, 4% Freshly Prepared Salmon, 3% Salmon Oil, 2% Salmon Stock), Sweet Potato (24%), Potato, Peas, Beet Pulp, Pea Protein, Linseed, Potato Protein, Minerals, Vitamins, Vegetable Stock, Asparagus (equivalent to 7.5g per Kg of product), Glucosamine (170 mg/kg), Methylsulfonylmethane (170 mg/kg), Chondroitin Sulphate (125 mg/kg), FOS (92 mg/kg), MOS (23 mg/kg).

Against the range

Meat: Trout and salmon 50%; Turkey 50%; dried fish 20% on the white fish
Energy: 320 kcal per 100g; 341 and 343 on the others
Calcium, dry matter: 1.41%; 0.98% white fish, 1.63% turkey
Plant protein: Pea and potato protein; Neither on the other two

The lightest bowl of the three, for an older dog that has to lose a little.

Three senior recipes built three different ways. Grain Free Senior leads on trout and salmon at 50%, the turkey keeps to one named bird at 50%, and White Fish with Rice opens on brown rice with unnamed dried fish behind it.

All three print glucosamine and methylsulfonylmethane at 170 or 180 mg/kg and chondroitin sulphate at 125 mg/kg. Fat stays between 8.0% and 9.0%, and energy runs from 320 to 343 kcal per 100g, all below the 357 typical for adult dry food.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

320 kcal/100g

Protein

26%

Fat

Fibre

Ash

7.9%

Moisture

Dry weight

Protein

28.3%

Fat

8.7%

Fibre

4.3%

Ash

8.6%

Carbs

50.1%

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

48%

Added water

2.3%

Carbs

48%

Other

1.7%

Pricing & size