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Specific CCD Struvite Management review

Name: Specific Specific CCD Struvite Management
Brand: Specific

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.

Specific sells this one through its CCD line as a struvite management diet, a starch led kibble with its mineral side controlled, offered for dogs with urinary stones under veterinary care.

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The Details

Dog fit

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Fish

What's in it

Ingredients, as declared: Maize starch, wheat, maize protein, pork fat, maize, egg powder, minerals, fish meal, animal protein hydrolysate, potato protein, Antarctic krill, vitamins and trace elements (including chelated trace, elements), cellulose powder, yeast, methionine, fish oil, psyllium husk, rosemary extract. With natural antioxidants (tocopherols and vitamin C).

Named ingredients

Maize starch, wheat, maize protein, pork fat, maize, egg powder, minerals, fish meal, animal protein hydrolysate, potato protein, Antarctic krill, vitamins and trace elements (including chelated trace, elements), cellulose powder, yeast, methionine, fish oil, psyllium husk, rosemary extract. With natural antioxidants (tocopherols and vitamin C).

Nutritional additives

inline in ingredients — the site publishes no separate additives panel.

What's on the label

Maize starch opens the list, with wheat second and maize protein third. Pork fat comes next, then maize again, and egg powder is the first entry that reads plainly as an animal protein. Minerals are printed ahead of the fish meal, which is high placing for that entry and quite deliberate here, since controlling the mineral side is what the maker is selling.

The animal entries in full are pork fat, egg powder, fish meal, Antarctic krill and fish oil, plus an animal protein hydrolysate that names no species. That leaves pork, egg and fish all in the recipe with one source unresolved, which is the detail to note if your dog must stay clear of any of them.

Cellulose powder and psyllium husk carry the fibre between them, the first a processed powder that adds bulk and very little else, the second a soluble husk. Yeast, methionine and a chelated trace element package follow, and the keeping is handled by rosemary extract with tocopherols and vitamin C rather than by anything synthetic.

The printed analysis runs to 21.0% protein, 19.0% fat and 1.6% crude fibre against 8.5% moisture, with energy at 410 kcal per 100g. Ash is not declared, so no carbohydrate estimate can be set beside those. Fat carries that much of the load while protein stays modest. That is the shape the maker has chosen for a urinary diet, and only the vet holding the case can say whether it suits your dog.

Price and where to buy

It comes in 2kg, 7kg and 12kg bags and as a 3 x 2kg multipack, at £6.44 a kilo. Feeding on the pack begins at 50g a day for a 2.5kg dog, rises to 185g at 15kg and reaches 655g for the 80kg dogs at the foot of the table. The amount that matters is whatever your vet hands you, since this is a prescribed food.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

409.7 kcal/100g

Protein

21%

Fat

19%

Fibre

1.6%

Moisture

8.5%

Dry weight

Protein

23%

Fat

20.8%

Fibre

1.7%

As-fed composition

Estimated breakdown of the finished product by ingredient category, from the declared ingredient list and ingoing weights. These are estimates, not measurements.

Meat

7.9%

Carbs

85.1%

Oils

5.2%

Other

1.8%

Pricing & size