Pro Plan

Pro Plan Large Athletic Adult Sensitive Skin review

Name: Pro Plan Large Athletic Adult Sensitive Skin
Brand: Pro Plan

51.8/100Good

DryAdult

A salmon-led kibble for big, lean dogs whose skin objects to almost everything, and the fish does real work. No land meat is named anywhere. Fish oil, soyabean oil and zinc printed at 110 mg per kilo build the skin and coat case. It finishes in our Good band.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Large athletic breeds with itchy or flaky skin, the dog it names
Dogs kept away from chicken, lamb and beef
Coat condition, with omega fats from the salmon and two oils
Big dogs in regular work: fat at 18.0%, energy at 396 kcal per 100g

Worth watching

Animal fats and digest with no species, short of what a strict elimination diet needs
Dried egg and soya meal, for a dog that has reacted to either before

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

How this scores

How we score

51.8/100Good

Protein and processingAverage

Nutritional balanceGood

TransparencyGood

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Listed for large adult dogs. Feed by the label's chart for a big frame (305 grams a day at 25kg with under an hour of activity) and adjust by condition.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Large

Main protein

Salmon

The score, in context

Pro Plan Large Athletic Adult Sensitive Skin 51.8

All one Good. Typical dry food: Good.

No land meat pulls it up and the corn and unnamed fats hold it back, and it earns its place in the middle of the shelf.

What's in it

Salmon (head, bone, meat)17%Honest about what goes in. Much of it is water by the time the kibble is made.
Rice14%
Dried salmon proteinWhat keeps the fish story true in the finished food.
Corn protein meal, corn, corn grits, corn starchStarch, and protein without meat.
Animal fatsNo species named.
Soya mealRaises the protein figure.
Dried beet pulp, dried vegetable fibre
DigestThe palatant. Animal protein with no species named, so it cannot be the whole answer on an exclusion trial.
Minerals, dried egg
Soyabean oil, fish oilOmega 6 and long-chain omega 3 for skin and coat.

Dosed in print, with zinc at 110 mg per kilo for the skin, vitamin E at 550 IU, vitamin C at 140 mg and selenium at a restrained 0.035 mg.

No moisture figure on the pack, so the dry-matter numbers assume the 8% a kibble normally holds.

Named ingredients

High quality salmon* (17%) (including head, bone, meat), Rice* (14%), Dried salmon protein*, Corn protein meal*, Corn*, Animal fats, Soya meal*, Dried beet pulp*, Corn grits*, Digest, Corn starch, Dried vegetable fibre, Minerals, Dried egg*, Soyabean oil, Fish oil

Against the range

Salmon is the only named meat, at 17% with dried salmon protein behind it, and no land meat appears. Corn in several forms and soya meal sit behind the fish, and carbohydrate converts to 39.1% of dry matter against a typical 46.2%.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

396 kcal/100g

Protein

28%

Fat

18%

Fibre

Ash

Dry weight

Protein

30.4%

Fat

19.6%

Fibre

3.3%

Ash

7.6%

Carbs

39.1%

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

45%

Carbs

48.3%

Veg

0.3%

Oils

3.8%

Other

2.5%

Pricing & size