Harringtons Grain-Free Hypoallergenic Dog Food

Some of it is. All Harringtons wet dog food recipes are grain free, along with our grain free, Superfoods and Just 6 food ranges. Our core dry food recipes do contain grains such as rice, so it's always worth checking the pack or ingredients list on the product page if you're unsure.

Something else that does the same job. Dogs still need carbohydrate for energy, so grain free does not mean carbohydrate free, it means the carbohydrate comes from a different place. Ours comes from vegetables rather than cereals, which is also why you will see potato and sweet potato high up the ingredients list.

Grain free describes what has been left out, which is grains. Hypoallergenic describes a recipe made to be less likely to trigger a reaction, usually by keeping the ingredient list short and predictable. A recipe can be one, the other or both. Our grain free recipes are carefully made to be hypoallergenic as well.

It depends on the dog rather than the label. Grains are not a problem for most dogs, and no single ingredient is just padding, so we would not tell you your dog needs grain free as a matter of course. Where it earns its place is when you are working through a suspected sensitivity and want to change one thing at a time, or simply when your dog does better on it. Some do.

You may have seen this raised. As of 2024 the US Food and Drug Administration has not found a proven causal link between grain free diets and dilated cardiomyopathy, a condition where the heart muscle weakens, and describes the picture as complex. Where there has been a signal it pointed towards diets very high in pulses and legumes such as peas and lentils, rather than the absence of grain itself. Learn more in our guide to whether dogs need grain free food.

Dry recipes come in a small bag for trying a flavour and a large bag for everyday feeding, and wet food comes in trays, either as a selection pack or a box of a single flavour. As a rough guide, buy the biggest bag your dog will get through in about six weeks, so the food stays fresh once opened. Exact sizes are on each product page.