Specific

Specific CDD Food Allergen 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 puts this one in its CDD range, a food allergen management diet built as a short rice and egg recipe the maker offers for elimination feeding under a vet's direction.

DryAdult

Specific CDD is a food allergen management diet, a short rice and egg recipe offered for elimination feeding under a vet's direction. We do not put a score on it. The list is short by intent, and that shortness is the working part of the food.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Adult dogs whose vet is running an elimination trial
A short list: rice, egg powder, pork fat and a handful of supporting entries
Fibre from cellulose powder and soluble psyllium husk
Natural preservation, rosemary extract with tocopherols and vitamin C

Worth watching

A protein hydrolysate that names neither animal nor plant, worth raising when the food is dispensed
Pork arriving through the fat, a second animal source for the trial to account for
No ash figure, so the panel stops short of a carbohydrate estimate

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

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adult dogs of every size. On a trial, feed to the practice's instruction; the label's table gives 200g a day at 15kg as a starting point.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

What's in it

RiceThe base.
Egg powderThe only protein species named.
Minerals
Pork fatBrings pork into the trial.
Protein hydrolysateSource not identified on the label at all.
Vitamins and trace elements, chelated
Cellulose powder, psyllium huskOne a bulking powder, the other soluble fibre.
MethionineA single amino acid added in its own right.
Rosemary extract, tocopherols, vitamin C

Protein is pitched low at 16.0% and fibre barely registers, both following from the stripped-back recipe.

Named ingredients

Rice, egg powder, minerals, pork fat, protein hydrolysate, vitamins and trace elements (including chelated trace elements), cellulose powder, psyllium husk, methionine, rosemary extract. With natural antioxidants (tocopherols and vitamin C).

Against the range

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

378.6 kcal/100g

Protein

16%

Fat

12%

Fibre

Moisture

8.5%

Dry weight

Protein

17.5%

Fat

13.1%

Fibre

1.1%

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

29.1%

Carbs

44.8%

Oils

6.1%

Other

20%

Pricing & size