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Pro Plan Veterinary Diets HP Hepatic 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.

HP Hepatic is the Pro Plan Veterinary Diets entry Purina offers as nutritional support for a dog with a liver condition. It is a dry food built on egg and plant protein, with no meat in it.

DryAdult

Purina's Pro Plan veterinary dry food for a dog with a liver condition, which we do not score. It reaches its protein from egg, corn and soya, with no meat on the list. Protein sits just above fat in dry matter, and on a diet for this purpose that is the intended structure.

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Our view

Likely to suit

A dog whose vet has prescribed nutritional support for the liver
A dog that needs its protein from egg and plants, with no meat in the bag
Owners who want the selenium, zinc and vitamin E doses printed
Households with dogs of very different sizes, as the guide runs from 2.5kg to 70kg

Worth watching

Pork fat and fish oil are on the list, and the digest does not say which animal it comes from
Reading the analysis against your dog's results is your vet's work

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

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults of every size, fed on a vet's advice. Check the portion against the label's guide, which marks 215 grams a day against 15kg.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Fish

What's in it

CornMarked on the label as both a protein source and a highly digestible carbohydrate.
Dried eggThe main protein, in place of meat.
Soya meal
Dried beet pulpCounted towards protein on the label, an unusual piece of labelling.
Pork fatPork arrives as a fat, not as a meat.
DigestA palatant coating, animal-derived, with the source not named.
Minerals
Fish oil, coconut oil
Dried chicory root, celluloseInulin as a prebiotic, with cellulose behind it.

Vitamin E, vitamin C, iodine, manganese, zinc and selenium, with no copper or iron on the panel, a formulation decision in diets of this kind.

No moisture figure on the label, so the dry-matter figures assume a standard 8%.

Named ingredients

Corn1.2, Dried egg1, Soya meal1, Dried beet pulp1, Pork fat, Digest1, Minerals, Fish oil, Coconut oil, Dried chicory root, Cellulose, 1 protein sources, 2 highly digestible carbohydrate sources

Against the range

One dry veterinary food built on egg and plant protein, with no meat in it. Pork fat and fish oil are the only other animal entries, both as fats.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

392 kcal/100g

Protein

19%

Fat

18%

Fibre

3.5%

Ash

Dry weight

Protein

20.7%

Fat

19.6%

Fibre

3.8%

Ash

6.5%

Carbs

49.4%

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.

Veg

0.9%

Oils

9.1%

Other

90%

Pricing & size