Europa

Europa Extra Sensitive Care: Digestive Care review

Name: Europa Extra Sensitive Care: Digestive Care
Brand: Europa

58.6/100Good

DryAdult

Flavour

A three recipe shelf built on hydrolysed protein, broken into pieces small enough that a touchy immune system often fails to spot them. Each recipe then takes a job: digestion, skin and coat, or weight with joints. Two land in our Good band and the weight recipe a step behind in Average.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Dogs with an itchy or unsettled history
Working through an intolerance with your vet, with turkey and two fish recipes to move between
Steadying digestion, on the turkey recipe
Extra weight and stiff joints at once
Feeding for coat, with salmon oil, borage oil and marine algae

Worth watching

Unnamed white fish in the skin and weight recipes, which widens the narrow animal side
Soya oil in the skin and coat recipe
Pea protein carrying part of the protein in two of the three

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

How this scores

How we score

58.6/100Good

Protein and processingAverage

Nutritional balanceAverage

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adult dogs. The labels ask 140 to 255 grams a day for a dog between 10kg and 20kg; agree with your vet which recipe fits the trial before ordering.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Turkey

The score, in context

Digestive Care 58.6
Skin 54.3
Weight Control 49.5

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

The scoring rewards the named shares and quantified extras; turkey fat and pea protein taking up room a whole meat would fill hold the readings back.

What's in it

Freshly prepared hydrolysed turkey26%Broken into fragments a touchy immune system often fails to spot.
Sweet potato, potatoThe starch, with no cereal.
Hydrolysed dried turkey11.5%
Turkey fat9%Keeps the fat source on the same bird as the protein.
Pea proteinShares the protein load, part of why the processing reading is Average.
Lignocellulose2.5%Purified plant fibre that helps stools hold their shape.
Hydrolysed turkey gravy2.5%
Minerals
Dried yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae)0.7%For the gut flora.
Dried marigoldA lutein source.

Vitamins A, D3 and E, with zinc and iron at 48mg each and the rest of the trace panel printed in full.

Named ingredients

Freshly Prepared Hydrolysed Turkey (26%), Sweet Potato, Potato, Hydrolysed Dried Turkey (11.5%), Turkey Fat (9%), Pea Protein, Lignocellulose (2.5%), Hydrolysed Turkey Gravy (2.5%), Minerals, Dried Yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) (0.7%), Dried Marigold (Source of Lutein)

Against the range

Animal: Turkey only; Salmon and white fish on the other two.
Fat source: Turkey fat, 9%; Salmon oil on the others, plus soya and borage oil on the skin recipe.
Gut extras: Dried yeast and lignocellulose; Neither on the skin recipe.

One bird all the way down, so the cleanest of the three for a dog with a fish question.

Hydrolysis runs right through all three: the fresh and dried animal entries and the gravy are all hydrolysed. Animal shares are printed at the top of every list, potato and sweet potato carry the starch with no cereal, and estimated carbohydrate stays between 41.9% and 45.6% of dry matter. What varies is the animal, the fats and the functional extras each recipe is built around.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

374 kcal/100g

Protein

25%

Fat

15.5%

Fibre

Ash

Moisture

Dry weight

Protein

27.2%

Fat

16.8%

Fibre

4.3%

Ash

7.6%

Carbs

44.1%

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

40%

Carbs

43.1%

Oils

Other

7.9%

Pricing & size