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Vet's Kitchen Sensitive Care Adult Wet: Ocean Fish with Sweet Potato review

Name: Vet's Kitchen Sensitive Care Adult Wet: Ocean Fish with Sweet Potato
Brand: Vet's Kitchen

67.7/100Good

WetAdult

Flavour

Two trays for dogs whose digestion sets the rules, one on lamb at 60% and one splitting 60% between salmon and white fish. The lamb reaches our Excellent band and the fish sits a step below in Good. The lamb is the more precisely written of the two, with a number beside nearly every entry.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Dogs with an unsettled digestion, the dog both recipes are built around
Dogs kept strictly off poultry. The lamb tray has no second animal at all
Grain-avoiding households
Fish eaters: 30% salmon and 30% white fish in the ocean tray
Adults of every build, as one portion table runs from toy breeds to giants
A prebiotic in the tray, chicory root in the lamb and MOS in the fish

Worth watching

White fish and mixed herbs left unnamed on the ocean tray
Carbohydrate estimated at 28.0% and 32.0% of dry matter, against 15.8% typical
Glucosamine and chondroitin in tiny amounts only

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

How this scores

How we score

67.7/100Good

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceGood

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults of every size. On the label's table a dog between 11kg and 25kg gets one to two trays a day, so count trays before ordering a ten.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Salmon

The score, in context

Lamb 75.4
Ocean Fish 67.7

Two recipes across Excellent and Good. Typical wet food: Excellent.

The lamb earns its edge with a cleaner list where nearly everything is quantified; the fish gives some of that back.

What's in it

Salmon30%
White fish30%Species not named. Rarely matters for a sensitive stomach, but it cannot help exclude one particular fish.
Dried sweet potato1%Equivalent to 4% before drying.
Minerals
Mixed herbsA category, with no single herb named.
Sunflower oil, dried seaweedSunflower in place of the lamb's rapeseed.
Mannan-oligosaccharides0.005%The prebiotic, doing chicory root's job.
Glucosamine, chondroitin0.004%, 0.002%
Yucca, cranberry, yeast extracts

The same vitamin A, D3 and E as the lamb, with zinc, iron, copper, manganese, iodine and selenium dosed in milligrams.

Named ingredients

Salmon 30%, White Fish 30%, Dried Sweet Potato (1%, equivalent to 4% Sweet Potato), Minerals, Mixed Herbs, Sunflower Oil, Dried Seaweed, Prebiotic Mannan-Oligo- saccharides 0.005%, Glucosamine 0.004%, Chondroitin 0.002%, Yucca Extract, Cranberry Extract, Yeast Extract.

Against the range

Meat: 30% salmon, 30% white fish; 60% lamb alone.
Fat, dry matter: 24.0%; 32.0% in the lamb.
Sweet potato: 1% dried; 7% in the lamb.

The lighter tray, for a fish-eating dog already holding its weight well.

Both trays declare 60% animal content and use no cereal, with sweet potato carrying the starch: 7% in the lamb, 1% dried in the fish (equivalent to 4% before drying). Glucosamine and chondroitin appear on both in tiny amounts. Protein reads 32.0% of dry matter on each, moderate for that much animal content, and the vitamin panel is the same. What varies is the animal, the fat and the small print: the lamb quantifies nearly everything, the fish leaves its white fish and herbs unnamed.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

112.5 kcal/100g

Protein

Fat

Fibre

0.5%

Ash

2.5%

Moisture

75%

Dry weight

Protein

32%

Fat

24%

Fibre

Ash

10%

Carbs

32%

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

60%

Added water

23.4%

Carbs

Veg

1.6%

Oils

2.3%

Other

11.7%

Pricing & size