Specific CXW Adult all breeds review

Our Good band is where this one settles, a little behind the middle of the wet category, and wet is a strong category to be measured against. Two things pull it there. The animal content is pork on its own at a share the label never prints, and maize takes second place on a list where most wet recipes put a vegetable or a broth. Protein and processing reads Excellent and transparency Good, so nothing here is falling down. It is a competent, readable recipe that a number of meat-heavier wet foods happen to out-declare.

Ingredients, as declared: Pork, maize, vitamins and trace elements (including chelated trace elements), minerals, egg powder, cellulose powder, psyllium husk, dextrose, sunflower oil, xylose, yeast (source of ß-1.3/1.6-glucans).

Pork leads, and no other meat follows it. It is an uncommon choice on the wet shelf, and that is precisely what makes it useful. A dog cannot react to a meat it has never eaten, and plenty of dogs have never eaten pork. No percentage sits beside it, so the pack does not say how big that share is.

Maize follows in second place. It is a straightforward cereal carrying starch and a little protein, and its position tells you it is doing real work in the recipe. Egg powder joins further down as a second and very digestible source of animal protein.

The fibre here is deliberate. Psyllium husk brings the soluble kind that settles a digestion, while cellulose powder is purified plant fibre added for bulk at almost no calories. Cellulose is a workhorse ingredient, and seeing it named tells you this recipe was built to a target.

Sunflower oil supplies the fat, an oil low in saturated fat that carries its own vitamin E. Dextrose and xylose are the two sugars, present in the small amounts you would expect at the bottom of a list, and the yeast is there as a source of beta-glucans.

The analysis reads 9.0% protein and 5.0% fat against 79.7% moisture. Because no ash figure is declared we cannot take those to dry matter, which is the comparison we would normally reach for on a wet food. Energy is printed rather than estimated, at 94 kcal per 100g, so portion planning starts from a real number.

£8.42 a kilo, in 300 g portions sold in packs of six.

As a guide, feeding a 15kg adult dog in moderate condition works out at about £7.53 a day, or roughly 895 grams, assuming about 840 kcal a day (110 × bodyweight^0.75, the standard maintenance estimate). The label's own guide runs a little lighter, putting a 14 kg dog on 775 grams and a 16 kg dog on 855 grams.