Arden Grange

Arden Grange VetCare Weight Control Wet review

Name: Arden Grange Arden Grange VetCare Weight Control 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.

The weight control wet food in Arden Grange's VetCare range is a turkey recipe with no added oil. It is meant for dogs whose weight loss a vet is overseeing.

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The Details

Dog fit

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Turkey

What's in it

Ingredients, as declared: Turkey 51%, sweet potato 5.5%, pumpkin, pea fibre 0.61%, chickpeas 0.16%, lucerne, minerals, sunchoke, algae lime, dried blackberries 0.1%, dried blueberries, dried raspberries 0.1%, dried blackcurrants, dried cranberries, cellulose, mannan-oligosaccharides (prebiotic MOS) 0.05%, fructo-oligosaccharides (prebiotic FOS)0.05%, methylsulfonylmethane (MSM) 0.05%, chondroitin sulphate 0.04%, glucosamine 0.04%. Carbohydrate sources: sweet potato, pumpkin.

Named ingredients

Turkey 51%, sweet potato 5.5%, pumpkin, pea fibre 0.61%, chickpeas 0.16%, lucerne, minerals, sunchoke, algae lime, dried blackberries 0.1%, dried blueberries, dried raspberries 0.1%, dried blackcurrants, dried cranberries, cellulose, mannan-oligosaccharides (prebiotic MOS) 0.05%, fructo-oligosaccharides (prebiotic FOS)0.05%, methylsulfonylmethane (MSM) 0.05%, chondroitin sulphate 0.04%, glucosamine 0.04%. Carbohydrate sources: sweet potato, pumpkin.

Nutritional additives

Nutritional additives: Vitamin A (as Retinyl Acetate) 2500IU, Vitamin D3 (as Cholecalciferol) 250IU, Vitamin E (as all-rac-alpha-Tocopheryl Acetate) 25mg, Biotin 25μg, Zinc (as Zinc Oxide) 20mg, Copper (as Copper (II) Sulphate, Pentahydrate) 1mg, Iodine (as Calcium Iodate, Anhydrous) 0.75mg.

What's on the label

Turkey is 51% of the tin and no other animal is named on the label. Sweet potato at 5.5% and pumpkin come next, with pea fibre at 0.61% and chickpeas at 0.16% below them, and moisture is declared at 78%.

No added oil appears anywhere on the list. Fat matches that at 3.5% as fed, or 15.9% of dry matter. Protein reads 11.5%, which is 52.3% of dry matter, and energy comes to 77 kcal per 100g. A tin built along these lines is meant to fill a bowl without loading a dog with calories, which is the whole brief of a reducing diet.

Fibre is declared at 2.5%, or 11.4% of dry matter, and three entries contribute to it: pea fibre, chickpeas and cellulose. Cellulose is a purified fibre that bulks a food out while carrying almost no energy of its own.

Among the minerals is algae lime, a calcified seaweed that supplies calcium. Every dosed extra is small and printed in full: MSM at 0.05%, chondroitin sulphate at 0.04%, glucosamine at 0.04%, and 0.05% each of mannan-oligosaccharides and fructo-oligosaccharides.

The dried fruit tail takes in blackberries at 0.1%, blueberries, raspberries at 0.1%, blackcurrants and cranberries. Vitamins A, D3 and E are dosed at 2500IU, 250IU and 25mg, with zinc at 20mg, copper at 1mg and iodine at 0.75mg beside them.

The feeding guide is generous by the standards of a tinned food, 700 to 1170 grams a day for a dog between 10 and 20kg, which reflects how little energy sits in each gram. Whether your dog needs a reducing diet at all, and this one in particular, is for your vet to say.

Price and where to buy

It is supplied in 395g portions, cased in 6, 24 or 48.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

77 kcal/100g

Protein

11.5%

Fat

3.5%

Fibre

2.5%

Ash

Moisture

78%

Dry weight

Protein

52.3%

Fat

15.9%

Fibre

11.4%

Ash

9.1%

Carbs

11.3%

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

51%

Added water

25.4%

Carbs

6.3%

Veg

8.5%

Other

8.8%

Pricing & size