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Specific COW-HY Allergen Management Plus 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 puts this one in its clinical range as COW-HY Allergen Management Plus, a wet diet the maker builds on hydrolysed salmon protein for dogs being worked up for a food allergy under veterinary direction.

WetAdult

A veterinary wet diet from Specific's clinical range, built on hydrolysed salmon protein for dogs being worked up for a food allergy under a vet's direction. We have not scored it. Your vet has seen your dog and we have not.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Dogs on an exclusion diet set by their vet
A single animal protein, salmon, broken down by hydrolysis into fragments the immune system often does not read as salmon
Owners avoiding chicken, beef, lamb and dairy, none of which appears on the label
Rice as the only cereal

Worth watching

Fish appears twice, as the hydrolysed protein and as fish oil
Dextrose and xylose, both sugars, close the list

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

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults of every size, fed on a vet's advice. Whether it belongs in your dog's work-up is your vet's call.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Salmon

What's in it

RiceThe base of the loaf.
Rice proteinRice again, as protein.
Hydrolysed salmon proteinThe single animal protein, cut into fragments by hydrolysis. Every diet of this type works on that mechanism.
Fish oilThe second fish entry; no other species on the label.
Vitamins, trace elements, mineralsTrace elements declared as chelated.
Sunflower oil, borage oil
Cellulose powder, psyllium huskThe fibre.
Dextrose, xyloseTwo sugars at the end of the list.

Vitamins and trace elements are declared inside the ingredient list, with no separate additives panel.

Moisture is 66.8%, low for a wet food, so the loaf is dense and portions look modest.

Named ingredients

Rice, rice protein, hydrolysed salmon protein, fish oil, vitamins and trace elements (including chelated trace elements), minerals, sunflower oil, cellulose powder, psyllium husk, borage oil, dextrose, xylose.

Against the range

A rice loaf built on hydrolysed salmon protein, the only protein of animal origin on the label, with fish oil the only other fish entry. No chicken, beef, lamb or dairy is printed, and rice is the only cereal.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

131.9 kcal/100g

Protein

8.2%

Fat

4.5%

Fibre

1.1%

Moisture

66.8%

Dry weight

Protein

24.7%

Fat

13.6%

Fibre

3.3%

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

15.9%

Added water

1.8%

Carbs

70.5%

Oils

Other

5.8%

Pricing & size