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Specific CDW 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 offers this one in its CDW range as a food allergen management wet food, a lamb and rice recipe the maker pitches at dogs on an exclusion diet arranged by their vet.

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CDW Food Allergen Management is a lamb and rice wet veterinary diet from Specific, pitched at dogs on an exclusion diet arranged by their vet. We do not score it. The list is brief by intention, to hold down the number of sources, and lamb is the one meat it names.

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Our view

Likely to suit

A dog on an exclusion diet set by a vet
A short list: lamb, rice, two oils, fibres and two sugars
Dogs of every size, with a guide from 1kg to 25kg

Worth watching

Fish oil puts fish in the tray, so lamb is not the only animal source
Dextrose and xylose, both named sugars, close the list

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

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adult dogs of every size on a vet's advice. If your dog's plan restricts sugars, point to the dextrose and xylose line when you discuss it.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Lamb

What's in it

LambThe one meat named.
Rice
Vitamins and trace elementsSome trace elements chelated.
Fish oil, sunflower oilVery little protein from the fish oil, but it is still fish.
Minerals, cellulose powder, psyllium husk
Dextrose, xyloseTwo sugars, named outright and among the smallest inclusions.

No crude fibre or ash figure is declared, so the dry-matter panel is partial.

Named ingredients

Lamb, rice, vitamins and trace elements (including chelated trace elements), fish oil, sunflower oil, minerals, cellulose powder, psyllium husk, dextrose, xylose.

Against the range

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

134.8 kcal/100g

Protein

7.6%

Fat

5.4%

Moisture

67.5%

Dry weight

Protein

23.4%

Fat

16.6%

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

47.7%

Added water

2.5%

Carbs

28.6%

Oils

8.2%

Other

12.9%

Pricing & size