Purina Pro Plan Sensitive Skin & Stomach Salmon & Rice Entrée Classic Wet Dog Food
Wet food in 13.0 oz cans, complete and balanced for adult dogs. With the water taken out it is 30% protein and 20% fat, and each can carries 371 kcal.
- Complete & balanced for adult dogs (AAFCO, on the label)
- 13.0 oz can
- 78% water
*For a 45 lb adult dog on this food alone. Set your own dog.
Ingredient Wiki
Water
Plain water, used to make the recipe mixable and, in wet food, to fill the can.
Fish
Fish flesh used without the species being named.
Liver
Liver used without the animal being named.
Salmon
The flesh of salmon, an oily cold-water fish, used fresh.
Rice
The grain of the rice plant, used without the form being specified further.
Our read The ingredients
Plain fish and rice with a small fiber assist
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Sensitive Skin & Stomach
Salmon & rice entrée, sensitive skin & stomach
What it is The recipe itself: fish, liver and salmon over rice and oat meal, with corn oil for linoleic acid and inulin, a prebiotic fiber, tenth on the list.
Our grade
- Marketing
- Modest
- Meaningful
Fish and rice make a simple, easy base, and corn oil feeds the skin barrier. But inulin sits behind the mineral premix, a small dose. This is a gentle food, not a therapeutic one.
Modest Real, but smaller than the pack makes it sound.
Salmon is fourth, behind unnamed fish and liver from an unnamed animal. Owners avoiding a specific protein can't tell where that liver came from.
- 2 fish
- 3 liver
- 4 salmon
What’s in the can
- First ingredient
- Water, there for moisture. Almost every wet food opens with water or broth; what follows it is the recipe.
- First meat
- fish, second on the list. Named meats near the top: fish and salmon.
- Thickeners and binders
- carrageenan, locust bean gum, xanthan gum and guar gum. They give the food its texture and hold pieces together. Normal in wet food; starches and flours also add carbohydrate.
- Added color
- None listed.
- Flagged additives
- VITAMINS [Vitamin E supplement, thiamine mononitrate (Vitamin B-1), niacin (Vitamin B-3), calcium pantothenate (Vitamin B-5), Vitamin A supplement, menadione sodium bisulfite complex (Vitamin K), pyridoxine hydrochloride (Vitamin B-6), riboflavin supplement (Vitamin B-2), Vitamin B-12 supplement, biotin (Vitamin B-7), folic acid (Vitamin B-9), Vitamin D-3 supplement]. Why we flag these.
Guaranteed
Analysis
As printed on the can, measured “as fed”
- Calories
- 1,006 kcal/kg
- Crude Protein (min.)
- 6.5%
- Crude Fat (min.)
- 4.5%
- Crude Fiber (max.)
- 1.5%
- Moisture (max.)
- 78.0%
371 kcal per 13.0 oz can, worked out from the kcal/kg figure and the can size.
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Full Ingredient
Declaration
Exactly as the can prints it, heaviest first
Water, fish, liver, salmon, rice, potato protein, oat meal, corn oil, MINERALS [potassium chloride, magnesium sulfate, zinc sulfate, ferrous sulfate, copper sulfate, manganese sulfate, potassium iodide, sodium selenite], inulin, carrageenan, locust bean gum, tricalcium phosphate, xanthan gum, guar gum, choline chloride, VITAMINS [Vitamin E supplement, thiamine mononitrate (Vitamin B-1), niacin (Vitamin B-3), calcium pantothenate (Vitamin B-5), Vitamin A supplement, menadione sodium bisulfite complex (Vitamin K), pyridoxine hydrochloride (Vitamin B-6), riboflavin supplement (Vitamin B-2), Vitamin B-12 supplement, biotin (Vitamin B-7), folic acid (Vitamin B-9), Vitamin D-3 supplement]
Ingredients are listed heaviest first, and a dog food needs very little salt, so the tail of the list is present in very small amounts.
Wet food is mostly water, so the label’s percentages look small next to kibble. Taking the water out is the only fair way to compare it with other foods.
| NUTRIENT | ON THE LABEL | WATER OUT | WET FOOD MEDIAN |
|---|---|---|---|
| PROTEIN | 6.5% | 29.5% | 43.2% |
| FAT | 4.5% | 20.5% | 22.2% |
| FIBER | 1.5% | 6.8% | - |
| CARBS (EST.) | - | 34.1% | - |
Carbohydrate is not on any label: it is what is left after protein, fat, fiber, water and an assumed 2% ash.
Our read The label
A moderate-protein can that runs on fat
52%
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Is it a high-protein food?
No
About 30% protein on a dry basis against 42% for the average wet food we list. Fat supplies more of the calories than protein does.
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Is it a meal?
Yes, for adults
Purina sells it as an entrée for adults 1 to 6 years. Feed it alone or over kibble, and count its calories either way.
- Feed it to
- Adults with a touchy stomach that do well on fish, and owners who want a soft food or a kibble topper.
- Skip it for
- Puppies, dogs allergic to fish, dogs on a strict elimination trial (the liver is unnamed), and dogs with a history of pancreatitis.
What a can costs
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Daily portion calculator
Calculated from the resting energy formula vets use and this food’s actual calorie density (1,006 kcal per kg, 371 kcal per can). A starting point to adjust from, not a prescription.
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Showing the latest 5 of 6. None in the last three years. Older events stay on the record. See the recall log
Other Flavors
Protein with the water taken out, read the same way.
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