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Rocco Diet Care Gastrointestinal: Chicken with Parsnip 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.

Rocco's Diet Care range carries these two as Gastrointestinal foods. They are low fat recipes, meant for a dog whose gut the vet is managing.

WetAdult

Flavour

Rocco's Diet Care pair for digestive upset, chicken with parsnip and turkey with pumpkin. We do not put a score on them. Fat held down to 17.9% of dry matter is the familiar shape of a food sold for a settling gut, not an economy in the recipe.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Adult dogs whose vet has recommended a low fat digestive diet
Dogs that need water with dinner, at 81.0% moisture
A choice of more protein or more starch within the same plan
A short added panel, dosed line by line

Worth watching

No ingredient list on either, so ask Rocco for it if your dog has a known trigger
Light tins, so daily portions are large: try more than a small pack

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

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adult dogs, fed on a vet's advice. Get the ingredient list from Rocco before ordering if anything is off limits for your dog.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult

Main protein

Chicken

What's in it

Vitamin D3, vitamin E and biotin, with zinc, manganese and copper as sulphates and iodine as calcium iodate.

No ingredient list is published for this recipe.

Against the range

Protein, dry matter: 44.7%; 51.6% on the turkey.
Carbohydrate, dry matter: 24.8%; 16.3% on the turkey.
Format: Tins and a 300g pouch; The turkey comes in tins only.

The starchier of the two, and the only one in a pouch.

Two low fat tins sold for a dog whose gut a vet is managing. Neither publishes an ingredient list, so the analysis is what can be read: fat at 3.4% as fed on both, moisture at 81.0%, crude fibre at 0.4%, and the same added panel. Protein and starch are where they part.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

81 kcal/100g

Protein

8.5%

Fat

3.4%

Fibre

0.4%

Ash

Moisture

81%

Dry weight

Protein

44.7%

Fat

17.9%

Fibre

2.1%

Ash

10.5%

Carbs

24.8%

Pricing & size

Price per kilo: £3.38 (RRP)
Pack: 6 x 400g, 24 x 400g (Saver Pack), 6 x 800g, 24 x 800g (Saver Pack), 6 x 300g pouches, 12 x 300g (Saver Pack) pouches, 24 x 300g (Saver Pack) pouches
A 15kg dog eats (our estimate): 920 to 1125 g a day, 1025 in the middle
Cost per day, 15kg dog: £3.46

At 81 kcal per 100g a 15kg dog needs a large daily portion.

Ingredients and nutrition are taken from manufacturer data. Retailer pricing is not yet live for this food.