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Vet's Kitchen Sensitive Care Adult: Pork & Potato review

Name: Vet's Kitchen Sensitive Care Adult: Pork & Potato
Brand: Vet's Kitchen

57.2/100Good

DryAdult

Flavour

Short ingredient lists on purpose, one pork and one salmon, and neither borrows a second animal from anywhere. Both come out in our Good band. No grain, no fat or oil hidden behind a generic name, and a joint set dosed at the foot of both labels.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Dogs midway through an elimination diet: one named animal per recipe and nothing unnamed
An itchy dog that has never met pork, and plenty of dogs never have
Grain-free households, with sweet potato, potato and peas in place of cereal
Sensitive guts, chicory pulp declared as the prebiotic on both
Stiffer dogs, glucosamine and MSM at 177 mg/kg each and chondroitin sulphate at 124 mg/kg

Worth watching

No moisture declared on either, so the dry matter column assumes 8%
The pork is the fattier bag at 15.2% of dry matter; weigh portions for a dog that gains easily
Neither is a puppy food

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

How this scores

How we score

57.2/100Good

Protein and processingAverage

Nutritional balanceAverage

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults of every size. Fed to the label, a 15kg dog has roughly 135 to 310 grams a day; let the waistline place yours.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Pork

The score, in context

Salmon 57.8
Pork 57.2

All two Good. Typical dry food: Good.

Level with the middle of the adult dry market, though on the job these are built for, a short and fully named list, they do better than the band suggests.

What's in it

Dried pork22%The entry that carries the recipe. Pork is new to a great many dogs.
Pork fat, pork gravy9.5% and 1.5%Named, so no generic fat hides in the small print.
Sweet potato22%
Potato20%Near enough level with the sweet potato.
Peas, beet pulp, lucerne
Chicory pulp2.4%Inulin, for the large intestine's own bacteria.
Minerals
Glucosamine, methylsulfonylmethane, chondroitin sulphate177, 177 and 124 mg/kgDosed in full.

Vitamins A, D3 and E, with zinc, iron and copper partly chelated, zinc at 154 mg and iron at 96 mg per kilo, plus selenium as sodium selenite.

Named ingredients

Pork 33% (Dried Pork 22%, Pork Fat 9.5%, Pork Gravy 1.5%), Sweet Potato 22%, Potato 20%, Peas, Beet Pulp, Lucerne, Chicory Pulp (2.4% as a source of prebiotic FOS), Minerals, Glucosamine 177 mg/kg, Methylsulfonylmethane 177 mg/kg, Chondroitin Sulphate 124 mg/kg.

Against the range

Meat: Pork 33%: dried, fat, gravy; Salmon 40% on the other
Fat, dry matter: 15.2%; 13.0% on the salmon
Starch: Sweet potato 22%, potato 20%; Sweet potato 31%, potato 6%
Bag sizes: Three; Two on the salmon

The novel protein of the pair, and the first to try when chicken or fish has already caused trouble.

Each recipe is built on one named animal with nothing else of animal origin: pork split into dried meat, fat and gravy, or salmon split four ways. There is no unnamed fat, generic oil or hydrolysate on either list.

Sweet potato, potato and peas replace grain, chicory pulp is the prebiotic, and the joint set is dosed the same on both. Protein converts to 25.0% of dry matter on each; the animal, the starch balance and the fat are what change.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

363 kcal/100g

Protein

23%

Fat

14%

Fibre

4.5%

Ash

Dry weight

Protein

25%

Fat

15.2%

Fibre

4.9%

Ash

7.6%

Carbs

47.3%

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

31.5%

Added water

1.5%

Carbs

60.5%

Veg

1.8%

Other

4.7%

Pricing & size