Virbac

Virbac Veterinary HPM Clinical: Hypoallergenic A2 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 these under its Veterinary HPM Clinical name, a set of 8 dry diets built on a shared pork and poultry protein base. Each one is directed by the maker at a different named condition, from skin and joints through to kidneys, urinary stones, diabetes and weight.

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Flavour

Virbac's set of 8 dry clinical diets, each aimed by the maker at a named condition, from skin and joints to kidneys, urinary stones, diabetes and weight. We do not put a score on them. They share a pork and poultry protein base, and the analyses spread widely because each diet has a different job.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Dogs whose vet has prescribed one of the 8 by name
Owners who want a full vitamin and mineral panel, dosed line by line
Feeding guides that run up to a 60kg dog
A narrowed ingredient list for a dog meeting fewer things

Worth watching

Poultry and animal fats are not one named animal, so read slowly on an exclusion plan
Hydrolysed crustacean in four diets and egg membrane in the mobility one
Feeding amounts differ between diets even at the same weight

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

The details

Dog fit

Life stages vary by diet: the skin and mobility diets are listed from puppyhood, the rest for adults or adults and seniors. Your vet sets which diet and how much.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult, Senior

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Fish

What's in it

Potato starchFootnoted as the carbohydrate source.
Hydrolysed fish protein24%A protein source broken into small fragments.
Poultry fatsThe one fat named, though only to the bird family.
LignocellulosePurified plant fibre.
Minerals
Hydrolysed pork and poultry proteinsStill here, so this is not a single protein food.
Beet pulp
Mono di and tri glycerides of fatty acids
FOS, brewers yeast, Lactobacillus acidophilus

A full vitamin and trace mineral panel with a dose on every line, down to folic acid and B12, plus added taurine at 1500 mg per kg and choline.

Fish, pork and poultry all appear. A shortened ingredient set, not one named animal.

Named ingredients

Potato starch [1], hydrolysed fish protein [2] (24%), poultry fats, lignocellulose, minerals, hydrolysed pork and poultry proteins [2], beet pulp, mono di and tri glycerides of fatty acids, fructo-oligosaccharides, brewers yeast, Lactobacillus acidophilus. [1] Carbohydrate source.[2] Protein sources

Against the range

Protein base: Hydrolysed fish protein, 24%; Dehydrated pork and poultry lead the shared base elsewhere
Protein as fed: 24%; 34% on most; 20.5% on the kidney diet
Missing: No rice, peas or linseed; Common across the rest
Fat source: Poultry fats; Animal fats elsewhere

The one built away from the shared meat base.

Six of the 8 open with dehydrated pork and poultry proteins, and hydrolysed pork and poultry proteins appear in every recipe. Poultry names a group of birds, and the animal fats name nothing. Five carry fish oil and one is built on hydrolysed fish protein.

Rice, potato starch, peas and faba bean hulls share the carbohydrate; lignocellulose, beet pulp and psyllium the fibre. Every recipe ends with Lactobacillus acidophilus. The analyses fan out by job: protein as fed from 20.5% to 34%, crude fibre from 4.5% to 15%, energy from 274 to 391 kcal per 100g.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

377 kcal/100g

Protein

24%

Fat

18%

Fibre

4.5%

Moisture

Dry weight

Protein

26.4%

Fat

19.8%

Fibre

4.9%

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.

Meat

30.6%

Carbs

41.2%

Oils

12%

Other

16.2%

Pricing & size