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Pro Plan Veterinary Diet Dermatosis Dry 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 through Pro Plan Veterinary Diets as Dermatosis, a herring-based dry diet the brand formulates for dogs whose skin problems a vet is managing.

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Purina's herring-based dry diet for dogs whose skin problems a vet is managing, fed on a vet's advice. We do not put a score on it. The list runs to nine entries, which is the point on a diet of this kind.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Dogs on a vet-directed skin plan
Owners keeping a food diary, with only nine entries to track
Dogs kept off dairy and poultry

Worth watching

Digest names no animal, and pork fat adds a further species
Corn starch and rapeseed, if either has come up for your dog before

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

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adult dogs of every size. Feed it on the advice of the vet managing the skin condition.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Fish

What's in it

Corn starchThe first entry.
Rapeseed mealA plant protein carrier.
Pea protein
Dried herring proteinThe only named meat on the panel.
Pork fatPork named plainly, a second species.
DigestA processed palatant; the animal is not stated.
Fish oil
Minerals
Rapeseed oilRapeseed's second appearance.

Vitamins A, D3 and E at 350 IU, with iron, iodine, copper, manganese, zinc and selenium as sodium selenite, each with a figure.

Digest has no species named, so a strict exclusion trial has one species left open.

Named ingredients

Corn starch, Rapeseed meal*, Pea protein*, Dried herring protein*, Pork fat, Digest*, Fish oil, Minerals, Rapeseed oil

Against the range

One veterinary dry diet with a nine-entry list. Most of the protein comes from plants, and dried herring protein is the only named meat. No dairy, no poultry and no cereal beyond the corn starch.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

400 kcal/100g

Protein

30%

Fat

18%

Fibre

2.5%

Ash

7.5%

Dry weight

Protein

32.6%

Fat

19.6%

Fibre

2.7%

Ash

8.2%

Carbs

36.9%

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

16.9%

Carbs

61.7%

Oils

6.2%

Other

15.2%

Pricing & size