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Rocco Diet Care Gastrointestinal: Turkey with Pumpkin review

Name: Rocco Rocco Diet Care Gastrointestinal: Turkey with Pumpkin
Brand: Rocco

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.

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The Details

Dog fit

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult

Main protein

Turkey

What's on the label

Both recipes go by their headline pairing, chicken with parsnip and turkey with pumpkin, and neither publishes an ingredient list. What you can read is the analysis, and on a food built for a settled gut that is where most of the thinking shows anyway. If your dog has a known trigger, the list is the thing to ask Rocco for before you order.

Fat is the figure to look at first. Both declare 3.4% as fed, converting to 17.9% of dry matter. A fat level held down that far is the familiar shape of a food sold for digestive upset, not an economy in the recipe.

Moisture is 81.0% in both, so these sit at the watery end of the wet foods, and energy lands at 81 kcal per 100g for the chicken and 80 for the turkey. Not much energy in a lot of water means large daily portions, which is worth knowing before you order a small pack to try.

Crude fibre is printed at 0.4%, or 2.1% of dry matter, on each of them, so neither is leaning on a big added fibre component. Where the two separate is protein and starch, and those figures are set out under each recipe.

The added nutrients match across the pair: vitamin D3 at 200 IU, vitamin E at 20 mg and biotin at 300 micrograms. The panel then runs zinc sulphate monohydrate at 25 mg, manganese sulphate monohydrate at 1.4 mg, copper sulphate pentahydrate at 1 mg and calcium iodate at 0.75 mg.

None of that tells you which of the two, or whether either, should be in front of your dog while its gut settles. That choice sits with the vet who has examined your dog.

How this variety differs

The turkey recipe swaps the balance the other way, more protein and less starch. Protein is 9.8% as fed, which is 51.6% of dry matter, and the carbohydrate estimate is 3.1%, or 16.3% dry. Ash is a little higher at 2.3%, working out at 12.1% of dry matter, and energy is 80 kcal per 100g. It is sold in tins only.

Price and where to buy

The chicken recipe is £3.38 a kilo and the turkey £2.84. On the daily amounts a 15kg dog would need at these energy levels, 1037 grams of the chicken and 1050 of the turkey, those work out at roughly £3.51 and £2.98 a day. Both are sold as 400g and 800g tins, the 400g in packs of 6 and 24, the 800g in 6 or 24 on the chicken and 12 or 24 on the turkey. Only the chicken has a 300g pouch, in packs of 6, 12 and 24.

Nutritional analysis