Virbac

Virbac Veterinary HPM Clinical: Digestive Support Wet 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.

Virbac sells this one through its Veterinary HPM Clinical range as Digestive Support, a chicken-led wet loaf the maker builds on organ meats and flagged digestible ingredients for dogs whose digestion a vet is managing.

WetAdultSenior

Flavour

A veterinary diet sold as Digestive Support, formulated for a diagnosed condition and fed on a vet's advice, so we give it no score. The loaf leads on chicken neck, liver and tripes with pork kidney behind them, a far more specific meat panel than most wet foods print.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Dogs whose digestion a vet is managing, which is what the range is made for
Adults and seniors of every size
Owners who want every meat named, organ by organ

Worth watching

Pork and egg white as well as chicken, with fish oil among the fats
The leading chicken neck is the one meat without the highly digestible mark

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

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adult and senior dogs of every size. What a dog with a digestive problem eats, and for how long, is for the vet who knows the case.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult, Senior

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Chicken

What's in it

Chicken neckThe only meat without the highly digestible footnote.
Chicken liver, pork kidney, chicken tripesOrgan meats carrying much of the recipe, which is unusual.
Mechanically deboned chicken meat
Pea protein extractThe plant protein.
Fish oil, sunflower oilThe added fat. Fat carries much of the energy by design.
Pork plasma, egg whiteTwo further animal protein fractions.
Minerals and vitamins
Cellulose, lignocelluloseThe fibre.
Potato starch, caramelStarch binds the loaf; caramel is for colour.

A full panel with a dose on every entry: vitamins A, D3, E and the B group, choline and taurine, and copper, iron, iodine, manganese, selenium and zinc.

No ash is declared, so the analysis is given as fed and dry-matter figures are partial.

Named ingredients

Loaf: chicken neck; chicken liver [1]; pork kidney [1]; chicken tripes [1]; mechanically deboned chicken meat [1]; pea protein extract [1]; fish oil [1]; sunflower oil [1]; pork plasma [1]; egg white [1]; minerals and, vitamins; cellulose; lignocellulose; potato starch, caramel. [1] Highly digestible ingredients

Against the range

A chicken-led wet loaf built largely on organ meats, with pork kidney and pork plasma behind the chicken. A footnote flags nearly every entry as highly digestible, and the full vitamin and mineral panel is printed with a dose against each item.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

144 kcal/100g

Protein

13%

Fat

9.5%

Fibre

1.1%

Moisture

72%

Dry weight

Protein

46.4%

Fat

33.9%

Fibre

3.9%

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.

Added water

Carbs

43.6%

Oils

36.3%

Other

13.1%

Pricing & size