Specific COD-HY Allergen Management Plus review

Ingredients, as declared: Rice, rice protein, fish oil, hydrolysed salmon protein, cellulose powder, minerals, pork fat, protein hydrolysate (below 10,000 dalton), vitamins and trace elements (including chelated trace elements), borage oil, psyllium husk, rosemary extract. With natural antioxidants (tocopherols and vitamin C).

Rice takes first place and rice protein second, so a fair share of the protein in this food is cereal protein before any animal source is reached. Fish oil is third and hydrolysed salmon protein fourth.

The label is unusually exact about the hydrolysate, describing it as below ten thousand daltons. That is a size limit, and size is the point of the technique, since the smaller the fragments the less likely a primed immune system is to react to them. Seeing the threshold printed at all is rare on a UK bag.

Even so, the recipe does not stop at one animal. Fish oil sits high on the list, pork fat is in there below the minerals, and borage oil adds a plant oil for gamma linolenic acid. Anyone planning a strict trial should show those entries to their vet before the first bowl.

Crude fibre is declared at 5.0%. Cellulose powder is up among the first few entries, and psyllium husk further down does the soluble side. Rosemary extract and tocopherols with vitamin C are there to keep the fats from turning.

Protein reads 23.0% and fat 15.0%, with 363 kcal per 100g and moisture at 8.5%. Almost none of the weight in the bag is water, so those as fed numbers stand close to their dry matter versions. Whether that mix suits your dog through a diet trial is a decision for the vet who set the trial up.

The feeding guide begins at 55 grams a day for a 2.5kg dog, shows 210 grams at 15kg and reaches 740 grams at 80kg. Specific lists the food for adult dogs.

It comes as a 2kg bag, and in multipacks of three 2kg bags or three 4kg bags.