Specific CKW Heart & Kidney Support review

Ingredients, as declared: Rice, pork, maize, fish oil, egg powder, sunflower oil, powdered cellulose, minerals, beet pulp, fructo-oligo-saccharides, psyllium husk, dextrose, AuraGuard (calcium carbonate citrus extract maltodextrin sodium chloride).

Rice comes first and pork second, so the largest single component here is cooked cereal rather than meat. That ordering is how a restricted protein wet diet is normally built, and it is the design showing through rather than a corner being cut.

Pork is the only meat declared. Egg powder adds a second animal protein, fish appears solely as oil, and sunflower oil brings a plant fat alongside it. Every ingredient on this label names itself, which is genuinely useful when you are checking a recipe against what your dog is allowed.

Protein is declared at 5.5% and fat at 5.0%, against moisture of 69.1%, with energy at 130 kcal per 100g. Those percentages look small on paper because most of the pack is water and because the protein has been deliberately held back. Neither of those things is a fault in a diet written for this purpose.

Powdered cellulose, beet pulp and psyllium husk carry the fibre, declared at 1.0%, with fructo oligosaccharides for the gut flora. Dextrose is on the list too, a sugar used in a small way for palatability.

The minerals are declared as minerals with nothing itemised, so there is no phosphorus or sodium figure to read, and AuraGuard adds sodium chloride to the ingredient list without a level. On a cardiac or renal diet those are precisely the numbers a vet will already have in front of them, so ask at the appointment.

The guide runs from 75 grams a day for a 1kg dog through 435 grams at 10kg to 865 grams for a 25kg dog. A larger dog gets through a fair quantity of this, and the daily amount is best set alongside whatever else is in the treatment plan.

Packs hold 6 units of 300g each, and it works out at £8.01 a kilo.