Terra Canis

Terra Canis Derma Diet: Chicken and Salmon 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.

Derma is the salmon and chicken tin in the Terra Canis Diet range, offered for dogs whose skin and coat are being looked after alongside a vet.

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Derma is the salmon and chicken tin in the Terra Canis Diet range, for dogs whose skin and coat are being looked after with a vet. We leave it unscored. The label is unusually complete: every meat and vegetable has its share, and the additive panel prints the essential fatty acids.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Dogs on a vet-led skin and coat plan
Owners who want each meat itemised: chicken stomach, chicken heart and salmon fillet
EPA plus DHA declared together at 2.0%, the figure a skin diet is usually built around
A fully listed plant side, from potato down to herbs in trace amounts

Worth watching

Two animals, chicken and salmon, so it is not a one protein recipe
Fish oil at 1% adds a second fish input on top of the fillet
Fat converts to 30.1% of dry matter

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

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adult dogs of every size, fed on a vet's advice. Where a skin plan tests proteins one at a time, both animals here have to be part of it.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Salmon

What's in it

Chicken stomach, chicken heart, salmon fillet53%Stomach 27%, heart 17%, fillet 8%. Organ meats carry the bulk.
Broth21%
Potato8%
Pumpkin, cucumber5%, 4%
Courgette, sweet potato3% each
Coconut flour, rapeseed oil, raspberry, coconut flake1% each
Fish oil1%A second fish input beside the salmon fillet.
Minerals1%
Camomile, marigold, thyme, stinging nettle, basil, spirulinaDried, in trace amounts.

Vitamin A at 27997 IU with zinc, manganese, copper and iodine; no other vitamin carries a number, and the panel prints linoleic acid and EPA plus DHA.

Chicken and salmon are both in the tin, so a protein-by-protein skin plan has to account for each.

Named ingredients

Salmon and chicken 53% (salmon fillet 8%, chicken heart 17%, chicken stomach 27% ), broth 21%, potato 8%, pumpkin 5%, cucumber 4%, courgette 3%, sweet potato 3%, coconut flour 1% *, rapeseed oil 1%, raspberry 1%, coconut flake 1% *, fish oil 1%, minerals 1% *, camomile *, marigold *, thyme *, stinging nettle *, basil *, spirulina *dried

Against the range

One salmon and chicken tin in the Terra Canis Diet range, unscored as a veterinary diet. The meat block is declared at 53% and broken out in full, broth makes up 21%, and every plant ingredient carries a percentage.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

90.8 kcal/100g

Protein

8.8%

Fat

5.9%

Fibre

0.7%

Ash

1.3%

Moisture

80.4%

Dry weight

Protein

44.9%

Fat

30.1%

Fibre

3.6%

Ash

6.6%

Carbs

14.8%

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

51.5%

Added water

20.4%

Carbs

11.7%

Veg

7.8%

Oils

1.9%

Other

6.8%