ProDen PlaqueOff Dental Bites Salmon Flavour for Cats - 60g

ProDen PlaqueOff Dental Bites Salmon is a daily dental treat for cats, built around the seaweed that gives the range its name. ProDen's account of how it works is unusual: the active is swallowed, carried in the saliva, and goes to work on plaque from there rather than by scrubbing the tooth.

Key Benefits

• A.N. ProDen seaweed - the organically certified active the whole PlaqueOff range is built on, first on the ingredient panel.
• Salmon flavour - the band across the front reads Salmon Flavor, and salmon oil is named among the ingredients.
• The three stated jobs - reducing plaque, preventing tartar, treating bad breath, ticked across the front of every pack in the range.
• Nothing to do but hand it over - no brushing, no holding the cat still, no paste.
• Small, dry bites in a 60g pouch that reseals.

What ProDen Says The Numbers Are

ProDen publishes its own trial results: after a month of use, a 32 per cent reduction in plaque, 35 per cent in tartar and 67 per cent in gingival bleeding. The brand adds, in its own footnote, that the time to any result varies between individual animals.

What Is Actually In Them

Organic seaweed, wheat bran, salmon oil, corn, rice, pork liver, chicken liver, wheat and barley. The green leaf on the pack reads one hundred per cent natural seaweed - a claim about the seaweed rather than about the bite as a whole.

Good To Know

• ProDen puts the timescale at three to eight weeks. This is not a product to judge after a fortnight.
• Not recommended for cats with hyperthyroidism. Seaweed carries iodine, and ProDen prints that warning on its own material. Ask your vet first if your cat has any thyroid diagnosis.
• ProDen prints no daily number for the cat pouches the way it does for the dog ones. Count them inside the day's food rather than on top of it.
• It belongs alongside brushing and a vet check, not in place of them. Hardened tartar is a scaling job.