Pro Plan

Pro Plan Medium Puppy Sensitive Skin OptiDerma review

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.

Purina sells this one in its Pro Plan range as Medium Puppy Sensitive Skin, a salmon-led kibble built around what the brand calls OptiDerma for growing dogs it positions as needing help with their skin.

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A Pro Plan kibble for medium-breed puppies, built around what Purina calls OptiDerma for growing dogs it positions as needing help with their skin. We have not scored it. What it adds up to for one particular puppy is a conversation for the vet who pointed you here.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Medium-breed puppies, the size it is formulated for
Growing appetites, at 406 kcal per 100g
Owners who want the vitamin and mineral panel printed in full
Salmon at the head of the list, with Purina saying what sits inside the figure

Worth watching

Animal fats and digest name no animal, so it cannot carry a strict exclusion trial
Soya in three forms, plus dried egg and fish oil
Calcium at 1.63% of dry matter is pitched at medium-breed growth, not a large-breed pup

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

The details

Dog fit

Listed for medium-breed puppies. If soya or egg has already been ruled out for your pup, read those entries twice before the first bag.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Puppy

Breed size

Medium

Main protein

Salmon

What's in it

Salmon (head, bone, meat)17%Purina says what is inside the figure: not muscle meat alone.
Dried salmon proteinThe same fish, dried.
Rice16%
Animal fatsNo species behind it.
Corn starch, corn protein mealMaize, the first two of three times.
Soya meal, dried egg, hydrolysed soya proteinTwo soya entries and an egg.
DigestA processed palatant from unnamed animals.
Dried beet pulp, corn, dried vegetable fibre
Minerals
Soyabean oil, fish oilSoya a third time.

Vitamins A, D3, E and C with iron, iodine, copper, manganese and zinc as sulphates and iodate, preserved with tocopherol extracts.

Named ingredients

High quality salmon* (17%) (including head, bone, meat), Dried salmon protein*, Rice* (16%), Animal fats, Corn starch, Corn protein meal*, Soya meal*, Dried egg*, Hydrolysed soya protein*, Digest, Dried beet pulp*, Corn*, Minerals, Dried vegetable fibre, Soyabean oil, Fish oil

Against the range

A salmon-led puppy kibble: salmon at 17%, including head, bone and meat, then dried salmon protein and rice at 16%. Maize appears three times, soya three times, and animal fats and digest name no species.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

406 kcal/100g

Protein

32%

Fat

20%

Fibre

2.5%

Ash

7.5%

Moisture

Dry weight

Protein

34.8%

Fat

21.7%

Fibre

2.7%

Ash

8.2%

Carbs

32.6%

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

49.8%

Carbs

37.1%

Veg

0.1%

Oils

9.3%

Other

3.8%

Pricing & size