Ingredients:
Rice, dehydrated poultry meat, corn, poultry fat, hydrolysed chicken protein, beetroot pulp, ceratonia siliqua seed, dehydrated fish, dehydrated egg, fish oil, zeolite, brewer’s yeast, lecithin, fructooligosaccharides, mannooligosaccharides, tagetes erecta extract (source of lutein), L-Carnitine, citrus (source of bioflavonoids), chelated minerals and vitamins.
Feeding Guide
The guide for our imaginary 20Kg Adult dog is 230g per day.
Costings and Comparisons
We have been unable to find a price for this.
To feed the Natural Hypoallergenic Burns Chicken and Maize would be 0,80€ or, with Chicken & Rice, 0,91€ per day and these have real named meats and NO hydrolysed protein sources which are used mainly to provide some sort of flavour.
An equivalent 15Kg of this would last the 20Kg dog 65 days but a 15Kg bag of Burns, Natural Dog Food, Fish 4 Dogs or Applaws would last around 75 days!!!
Star Rating
Despite including "non specific" meats, lack of percentage ingredients and questionable rice this food actually gets a 1 star rating.
It is held back by a notch because of the poultry fat, corn and hydrolysed chicken.
Closing Note
This is not a hypo-allergenic food as the main meat ingredient is unspecified poultry and fats from several sources.
The rice is not whole grain so is likely to be left over from the human food chain.
Hydrolysed chicken protein is made from carcasses and bone material of the chicken - after all the useable meat has been removed - and is mainly a flavour enhancer and can be a source of MSG (see
Novozymes,
USFDA and
Wikipedia)