Europa

Europa Extra Sensitive Care: Weight Control & Joint Care review

Name: Europa Extra Sensitive Care: Weight Control & Joint Care
Brand: Europa

49.5/100Average

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

49.5/100Average

Protein and processingPoor

Nutritional balanceGood

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueAverage

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

White Fish

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 white fish26%No species named.
Potato
Hydrolysed dried white fish11.5%
Pea protein, sweet potato
Salmon oil5.5%
Lignocellulose, beet pulp, pea fibre5.5%, 4%, 4%Bulk with next to no energy, so a dieting dog finishes a full bowl and stops asking.
Hydrolysed salmon gravy2.5%
Minerals
Green lipped mussel0.3%The joint side of the recipe. Shellfish.
Marigold

L-carnitine at 1,442 mg/kg to help fat metabolism along, with zinc at 66mg and a full trace panel.

Named ingredients

Freshly Prepared Hydrolysed White Fish (26%), Potato, Hydrolysed Dried White Fish (11.5%), Pea Protein, Sweet Potato, Salmon Oil (5.5%), Lignocellulose (5.5%), Beet Pulp (4%), Pea Fibre (4%), Hydrolysed Salmon Gravy (2.5%), Minerals, Green Lipped Mussel (0.3%), Marigold (Source of Lutein)

Against the range

Fat: 9%; 15% to 15.5% on the other two.
Fibre, dry matter: 9.2%; 4.3% and 2.7% on the others.
Protein, dry matter: 31.5%; 27.2% on both the others.
Energy: 315 kcal per 100g; 374 and 381 on the others.

The leanest recipe on the shelf and the highest in protein, for a dog that needs to lose weight on stiff joints.

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

315 kcal/100g

Protein

29%

Fat

Fibre

8.5%

Ash

Moisture

Dry weight

Protein

31.5%

Fat

9.8%

Fibre

9.2%

Ash

7.6%

Carbs

41.9%

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

40.3%

Carbs

44.7%

Oils

5.5%

Other

9.5%

Pricing & size