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Specific COD Skin Function 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 clinical range as COD Skin Function Support. It is a fish-based dry diet the maker builds around omega oils and coat-facing extras, for dogs whose skin is being managed by a vet.

DryAdult

COD Skin Function Support is a veterinary diet, made for a diagnosed condition and fed on a vet's advice, so it carries no score from us. The label puts wheat and rice first, fish meal third, and the skin work in the oils: fish oil high on the list, borage oil and krill lower down.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Dogs whose skin is being managed by a vet who has prescribed it
A fat-forward diet: fat is declared at 19.0% as fed, deliberately, for a recipe organised around oils
Short daily rations, with energy at 413 kcal per 100g
Homes that keep chicken and beef out. Neither appears in print

Worth watching

Fish meal and an animal protein hydrolysate with no species named
Pork, fish, egg and krill all on the list, a spread to know before an exclusion trial
Wheat as the first ingredient

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

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adult dogs of every size. The ration and whether this is the right diet for the skin problem both sit with the vet who put your dog on it.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Fish

What's in it

Wheat, riceThe cereal base the recipe is built on.
Fish mealConcentrated fish protein. No species named.
Maize protein
Fish oilHigh on the list, where the skin work sits.
Egg powder, pork fatPork and egg both in print.
Potato protein, animal protein hydrolysateThe hydrolysate does not say which animal it came from.
Minerals, Antarctic krill, vitamins and trace elementsKrill brings marine oil of its own. Some trace elements are chelated.
Yeast, cellulose powder, psyllium huskYeast for beta-glucans; the fibre is a light touch at 1.5% crude fibre.
Borage oilA plant source of gamma-linolenic acid, used in coat formulas.
Taurine, L-carnitine, rosemary extractNamed, with no inclusion figure.

No separate additives panel is published, so none of the vitamins, minerals, taurine or L-carnitine carries a dose.

Named ingredients

Wheat, rice, fish meal, maize protein, fish oil, egg powder, pork fat, potato protein, animal protein hydrolysate, minerals, Antarctic krill, vitamins and trace elements (including chelated trace elements), yeast (including source of ß-1.3/1.6-glucans), cellulose powder, borage oil, psyllium husk, taurine, L-carnitine, rosemary extract. With natural antioxidants (tocopherols and vitamin C).

Against the range

A fish-based veterinary dry diet from Specific's clinical range, for dogs whose skin is being managed by a vet. It is built on wheat and rice with fish meal behind them, and organised around fish oil, krill and borage oil.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

412.8 kcal/100g

Protein

26%

Fat

19%

Fibre

1.5%

Moisture

8.5%

Dry weight

Protein

28.4%

Fat

20.8%

Fibre

1.6%

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

21.6%

Carbs

72.9%

Oils

4.7%

Other

0.8%

Pricing & size