Specific CDW Food Allergen Management review

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

Lamb is at the front, and it is the one meat the list names. Rice is second, and after the vitamin and trace element package the recipe runs to fish oil, sunflower oil, minerals, cellulose powder and psyllium husk. That is a brief declaration for a wet food, which is the intention when a diet is meant to hold the number of sources down.

Lamb on its own does not make this a single protein food. Fish oil is fish derived. An oil contributes very little protein, but it is still fish in the tray, and that is worth a thought for a fish-avoiding dog. Nothing else on the list names an animal.

Two sugars close the recipe, dextrose and xylose. Both sugars are named outright, not folded into a broader term, and their position puts them among the smallest inclusions. If your dog's plan restricts sugars, that is the line to point at when you discuss it.

The printed analysis is briefer than most, 7.6% protein and 5.4% fat against 67.5% moisture, with energy at 135 kcal per 100g. Neither crude fibre nor ash is declared, so there is nothing to work those figures onto a dry matter footing with. With that much dry matter in the tray, the energy reads as it does. Those are the numbers as they stand, and what they mean for your dog belongs with the vet supervising the trial.

It comes as a pack of six at 300g each, working out at £9.09 a kilo. On the label's guide a 1kg dog gets 75g a day, a 10kg dog 420g and a 25kg dog 830g.