Arden Grange

Arden Grange VetCare Hypoallergenic Wet review

Name: Arden Grange Arden Grange VetCare Hypoallergenic Wet
Brand: Arden Grange

We don't put a score on this food. It is a veterinary diet, formulated for a diagnosed condition and meant to be fed on a vet's advice. Your vet has seen your dog and we have not, so a number from us could only pull you towards their advice or away from it, and neither of those is ours to do. What follows is what the label declares, what the analysis works out at, and where to buy it, with no judgement attached to any of it.

Arden Grange places this one in its VetCare range as the hypoallergenic wet food, a hydrolysed chicken recipe intended for dogs whose skin or gut reactions are being managed on a vet's advice.

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The Details

Dog fit

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Chicken

What's in it

Ingredients, as declared: Hydrolysed chicken 75%, sweet potato 9.5%, pumpkin 4%, sunflower oil (source of linoleic acid) 3.5%, minerals, citrus fibre, linseed oil 0.5%, cellulose, methylsulfonylmethane (MSM), fish oil (source of DHA*/EPA) 0.3%, mannan-oligosaccharides (prebiotic MOS), sunchoke, fenugreek, lucerne, dandelion, nettle 0.1%, fructo-oligosaccharides (prebiotic FOS). Protein source: hydrolysed chicken. Carbohydrate sources: sweet potato, pumpkin.

Named ingredients

Hydrolysed chicken 75%, sweet potato 9.5%, pumpkin 4%, sunflower oil (source of linoleic acid) 3.5%, minerals, citrus fibre, linseed oil 0.5%, cellulose, methylsulfonylmethane (MSM), fish oil (source of DHA*/EPA) 0.3%, mannan-oligosaccharides (prebiotic MOS), sunchoke, fenugreek, lucerne, dandelion, nettle 0.1%, fructo-oligosaccharides (prebiotic FOS). Protein source: hydrolysed chicken. Carbohydrate sources: sweet potato, pumpkin.

Nutritional additives

Nutritional additives: Vitamin A 2500IU, Vitamin D3 230IU, Vitamin E 33mg, Biotin 0.11mg, Zinc (as zinc oxide) 35mg, Copper (as Copper (II) Sulphate Pentahydrate) 2.4mg, Iodine (as Calcium Iodate, Anhydrous) 0.5mg, Iron (as Iron (II) Chelate of Amino Acids, Hydrate) 15mg, Manganese (as Manganous Sulphate, Monohydrate) 1.5mg, Selenium (as Sodium Selenite) 0.01mg.

What's on the label

Hydrolysed chicken accounts for 75% of the tin and is the only meat named. Sweet potato at 9.5% and pumpkin at 4% are the only plant entries of any size, and with moisture declared at 78% what reaches the bowl is broken-down chicken, a little root vegetable and water.

Fish oil is on the list at 0.3%, printed as a source of DHA and EPA. It is a small inclusion, but it does mean the recipe is not built on a single animal. An owner running a strict one-protein trial will want to put that entry to their vet before the first tin is opened.

Sunflower oil at 3.5% is declared for its linoleic acid and linseed oil follows at 0.5%. Citrus fibre and cellulose carry the fibre, cellulose being a purified plant fibre that adds bulk while contributing very little else, a common choice where a recipe has to stay short. MSM appears without a figure, and the botanical tail runs through sunchoke, fenugreek, lucerne, dandelion and nettle at 0.1%.

The prebiotics are named rather than dosed here, mannan-oligosaccharides ahead of fructo-oligosaccharides at the very end of the list. Calcium works out at 1.14% of the food's dry matter, and the added vitamins and trace minerals are each printed with their dose.

Protein converts to 40.9% of dry matter and fat to 22.7%, the carbohydrate estimate lands at 25.9% of dry matter and energy is declared at 99 kcal per 100g. The feeding guide asks for 620 to 1045 grams a day for a dog between 10 and 20kg, a lot of tin to get through. On a therapeutic diet that quantity is normally agreed with the vet rather than read off the pack.

Price and where to buy

It comes as 395g units, boxed 6, 24 or 48 to a case.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

99 kcal/100g

Protein

Fat

Fibre

0.5%

Ash

1.8%

Moisture

78%

Dry weight

Protein

40.9%

Fat

22.7%

Fibre

2.3%

Ash

8.2%

Carbs

25.9%

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

75%

Added water

4.3%

Carbs

9.5%

Veg

4.1%

Oils

4.3%

Other

2.8%