Europa

Europa Extra Sensitive Care: Skin & Coat Care review

Name: Europa Extra Sensitive Care: Skin & Coat Care
Brand: Europa

54.3/100Good

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

54.3/100Good

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

Salmon

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 salmon35%The largest single animal entry on the shelf.
Potato, sweet potato
Hydrolysed dried white fish14%No species named, which widens a recipe meant to be narrow.
Salmon oil4%
Beet pulp
Soya oil3%Puts soya on the allergen reading.
Hydrolysed salmon gravy2.5%
Minerals
Dried algae (Schizochytrium), borage oil0.2% eachAlgae gives omega 3 ready made; borage carries the gamma-linolenic acid skin work leans on.
Marigold

Zinc at 69mg, the highest of the three, beside a full trace panel and vitamins A, D3 and E.

Named ingredients

Freshly Prepared Hydrolysed Salmon (35%), Potato, Sweet Potato, Hydrolysed Dried White Fish (14%), Salmon Oil (4%), Beet Pulp, Soya Oil (3%), Hydrolysed Salmon Gravy (2.5%), Minerals, Dried Algae (Schizochytrium sp.) (0.2%), Borage Oil (0.2%), Marigold (Source of Lutein)

Against the range

Animal: 35% salmon, 14% white fish; Turkey on the digestive, white fish on the weight recipe.
Oils: Salmon, soya, algae and borage; One fat source on each of the others.
Pea protein: None; On the other two.

The most directly targeted recipe of the three, built around the coat.

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

381 kcal/100g

Protein

25%

Fat

15%

Fibre

2.5%

Ash

7.5%

Moisture

Dry weight

Protein

27.2%

Fat

16.3%

Fibre

2.7%

Ash

8.2%

Carbs

45.6%

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

51.5%

Carbs

37%

Veg

0.2%

Oils

7.2%

Other

4.1%

Pricing & size