Pro Plan

Pro Plan Veterinary Diets EN Gastrointestinal 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.

EN Gastrointestinal is one of Purina's Pro Plan Veterinary Diets, a rice-based dry food for a dog whose digestion a vet is managing.

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EN Gastrointestinal is one of Purina's Pro Plan Veterinary Diets, a rice-based dry food for a dog whose digestion a vet is managing. We do not put a score on it. The design is low fat carried on a large, readily broken down starch share, with fat at 11.4% of dry matter.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Adult dogs on a gastrointestinal diet their vet has recommended
A low-fat bowl: 10.5% fat as fed
Four entries marked on the label as highly digestible, the rice and coconut oil among them
Chicory inulin and beet pulp for the fibre side

Worth watching

Soya twice, as soya protein and soya oil, so it is not a soya-free recipe
Poultry protein with no species named

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

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adult dogs of every size. How long your dog stays on it, and the portion, are for the vet who started the course to say.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Fish

What's in it

RiceHeads the label and carries one of the four highly digestible asterisks.
Corn
Pea protein, dried poultry proteinBoth marked highly digestible. Poultry covers a group of birds, so the meat entry keeps its options open.
Dried beet pulpThe bulkier fibre.
DigestThe palatant, coating each piece so a dog coming off a rough few days will still clear the bowl.
Soya protein
Coconut oil4%The one fat given a percentage.
Minerals
Pork fat, mono and diglycerides, soya oil, fish oilFats without figures; the mono and diglycerides are emulsifiers holding the fat evenly through the kibble.
Chicory inulinCloses the list as the prebiotic fibre.

Vitamins A, D3 and E (56 IU per kilogram), with iron at 100 mg per kilogram, zinc at 96, manganese at 38, copper at 11, iodine at 1.6 and selenium at 0.11.

Soya appears twice on the list. Raise it with the vet if soya is something your dog avoids.

Named ingredients

Rice*, Corn, Pea protein*, Dried poultry protein*, Dried beet pulp, Digest, Soya protein, Coconut oil* (4%), Minerals, Pork fat, Mono and diglycerides, Soya oil, Fish oil, Chicory inulin, *Highly digestible ingredients

Against the range

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

370 kcal/100g

Protein

24%

Fat

10.5%

Fibre

Ash

Dry weight

Protein

26.1%

Fat

11.4%

Fibre

2.2%

Ash

6.5%

Carbs

53.8%

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

13.7%

Carbs

78.7%

Veg

0.1%

Oils

4.9%

Other

2.6%

Pricing & size