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Specific CIW Digestive Support 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 CIW Digestive Support range, the wet partner to its gut kibble. It is a pork and cereal recipe the maker offers for dogs being fed through a digestive episode on veterinary advice.

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Specific CIW Digestive Support is a pork and cereal wet food, the partner to the maker's gut kibble, offered for dogs fed through a digestive episode on a vet's advice. We do not put a score on it. Every entry on the label names itself.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Dogs whose vet has recommended a digestive diet
A list you can check line by line against known triggers
Pork as the only named meat
Puppies, adults and older dogs, all listed by the maker

Worth watching

Fish oil and egg powder, the entries that complicate a one-species plan
Daily amount and number of meals are for your vet to set

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

The details

Dog fit

Listed for puppies, adults and seniors of every size. Agree the daily amount and the number of meals with your vet before ordering.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Puppy, Adult, Senior

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Pork

What's in it

PorkThe only meat named.
Maize, rice
Minerals (incl. zeolite), vitamins and trace elementsZeolite holds on to moisture and ammonia; the trace elements include chelates.
Egg powderA second animal protein.
DextroseA small amount of sugar for palatability.
Psyllium huskThe soluble fibre.
Fish oil, sunflower oilFish as oil only, no fish flesh.
Yeast fermentation product, yeastThe yeast is a source of MOS and beta glucans.
AuraGuard (calcium carbonate, citrus extract, maltodextrin, sodium chloride)
Yucca powderAimed at stool odour.

No separate additives panel is published; vitamins and chelated trace elements are listed within the ingredients.

No ash is declared, so dry-matter figures cannot be worked out.

Named ingredients

Pork, maize, rice, minerals (including zeolite), vitamins and trace elements (including chelated trace elements), egg powder, dextrose, psyllium husk, fish oil, sunflower oil, yeast fermentation product (Saccharomyces cerevisiae products, calcium carbonate), yeast (source of mannan-oligosaccharides and ß-1.3/1.6-glucans), AuraGuard (calcium carbonate, citrus extract, maltodextrin, sodium chloride), Yucca powder.

Against the range

One wet recipe. Pork leads and is the only meat named, with maize and rice behind it and egg powder as a second animal protein. Fish appears only as oil. Every entry identifies itself, with no category terms. Psyllium husk, a yeast fermentation product and a yeast source of MOS and beta glucans make up the gut side, none with a printed level.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

124.5 kcal/100g

Protein

7.5%

Fat

4.5%

Fibre

0.4%

Moisture

69.7%

Dry weight

Protein

24.8%

Fat

14.9%

Fibre

1.3%

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

45.3%

Added water

4.7%

Carbs

40.3%

Oils

0.6%

Other

9.1%

Pricing & size