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Specific CCD Struvite Management 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.

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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Specific CCD Struvite Management is a starch-led kibble with its mineral side controlled, sold for dogs with urinary stones under veterinary care. We do not put a score on it. Minerals are printed high on the list, ahead of the fish meal, because controlling them is what the diet is for.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Adult dogs whose vet has recommended a struvite diet
Dogs of any size, with the pack's table running from 2.5kg to 80kg
Owners who want natural preservation: rosemary extract with tocopherols and vitamin C
Dogs that need a dense kibble, at 410 kcal per 100g

Worth watching

Pork, egg and fish are all in the recipe, with an animal protein hydrolysate that names no species
Wheat is the second ingredient
No ash declared, so no dry-matter or carbohydrate figures can be set beside the analysis

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

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adult dogs of every size. The portion is whatever your vet hands you, so check the amount with them before ordering.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Fish

What's in it

Maize starchOpens the list.
Wheat, maize protein
Pork fatFat carries much of the energy load.
Maize, egg powderEgg is the first plain animal protein.
MineralsPlaced high on purpose: the mineral side is what the diet controls.
Fish meal, animal protein hydrolysateThe hydrolysate names no species.
Potato protein, Antarctic krill
Vitamins and trace elements, cellulose powder, yeast, methionineSome trace elements chelated. Cellulose adds bulk and little else.
Fish oil, psyllium huskPsyllium is the soluble fibre.
Rosemary extract, tocopherols, vitamin CThe preservation, nothing synthetic.

Vitamins and trace elements, some chelated, are listed inline in the ingredients with no separate panel.

Pork, egg and fish are all here, with one animal source unnamed. Put any avoidance question to the vet who chose the food.

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).

Against the range

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