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Rocco Diet Care Renal: Chicken with Sweet Potato 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 puts these two through its Diet Care range as renal recipes, built on a restricted protein level for dogs whose kidney function a vet is managing.

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Flavour

Rocco's Diet Care renal tins, built on a restricted protein level for dogs whose kidney function a vet is managing. There are two, beef with chicken hearts and pumpkin, and chicken with sweet potato. Neither label prints a full ingredient list.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Adult dogs whose kidney function a vet is managing
A choice of beef or chicken within the same renal approach
Tins and pouches in several sizes, so a big dog's daily amount is easy to make up
Owners who want the vitamin and mineral doses printed

Worth watching

No itemised ingredient list on either recipe
The beef recipe names two animals, beef and chicken hearts
Fat runs high on a dry matter footing in the beef tin, at 44.5%

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

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adult dogs, fed on a vet's advice. Before choosing between the two, ask the practice or Rocco for the full ingredient declaration.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult

Main protein

Chicken

What's in it

No vitamin A on this panel; vitamin E is given as 20 IU and copper is dosed at 1mg.

No itemised ingredient list is published: chicken and sweet potato are the only named items.

Against the range

Moisture: 74.0%; 78.0% in the beef tin.
Energy: 125 kcal per 100g; 97 in the beef tin.
Fibre, dry matter: 1.9%; 12.7% in the beef tin.
Carbohydrate, dry matter: 36.2%; 13.2% in the beef tin.

The drier, more energy-dense tin, and the one with a single named animal.

Two renal recipes, one on beef with chicken hearts and pumpkin, the other on chicken with sweet potato. Neither publishes an itemised ingredient list, so the named items are all the label gives and the proportions behind them are not stated. Protein sits a long way under an everyday wet food in both tins, which is the purpose of the formulation. Both additive panels are dosed: vitamin D3 at 200 IU, biotin at 300mcg, zinc at 25mg, manganese at 1.4mg and iodine at 0.75mg. Calcium is declared for each.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

125 kcal/100g

Protein

6.4%

Fat

7.6%

Fibre

0.5%

Ash

2.1%

Moisture

74%

Dry weight

Protein

24.6%

Fat

29.2%

Fibre

1.9%

Ash

8.1%

Carbs

36.2%

Pricing & size

Price per kilo: £2.84 (RRP)
Pack: 6 x 400g, 24 x 400g (Saver Pack), 6 x 800g, 12 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): 595 to 730 g a day, 665 in the middle
Cost per day, 15kg dog: £1.89

About 665 grams a day for a 15kg adult on our estimate.

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