Royal Canin

Royal Canin Cavalier King Charles Adult review

Name: Royal Canin Cavalier King Charles Adult
Brand: Royal Canin

34.8/100Average

DryAdultSenior

An Average kibble shaped for a cavalier's small mouth and modest appetite. A cavalier fed on it will be properly nourished, but the label keeps more to itself than a careful reader would like, with plant protein above the poultry and no species named anywhere. L-carnitine is printed at 400 mg per kilo.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Small adult cavaliers that eat slowly and neatly
L-carnitine with its dose on the pack
Every added mineral printed with a figure, zinc at 145 mg down to selenium at 0.1 mg per kilo
A cavalier past its middle years, as seniors are included
Feeding from a chart, which runs from a 5kg dog to a 9kg one

Worth watching

Vegetable protein isolate listed above the poultry, so plant protein carries a real share
Unnamed species three times: poultry, animal fats and hydrolysed animal proteins
Fish oil and hydrolysed crustaceans on the list, so the bowl is neither fish nor shellfish free

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

How this scores

How we score

34.8/100Average

Protein and processingPoor

Nutritional balanceGood

TransparencyPoor

ValueAverage

The details

Dog fit

Listed for small adult and senior dogs. Portion from the pack's table, which asks 85 grams a day at 5kg rising to 132 grams at 9kg, and not from a 15kg estimate.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult, Senior

Breed size

Small

Main protein

Poultry

The score, in context

Royal Canin Cavalier King Charles Adult 34.8

All one Average. Typical dry food: Good.

The analysis is respectable for a small-breed kibble; the placing comes down to where the protein comes from and how little of it is pinned to an animal.

What's in it

Rice
Vegetable protein isolatePicked for digestibility, which says how well it is absorbed. It is still plant material, and it sits ahead of the meat.
Dehydrated poultry proteinDried before mixing. Poultry covers any domestic bird.
Maize, animal fatsAnimal fats covers any land animal.
Hydrolysed animal proteinsSmall fragments, largely for taste, species unnamed.
Beet pulp, vegetable fibres, mineralsBulk for tidy stools.
Fish oil, soya oilThe omega fats.
Dehydrated tomato, FOS, hydrolysed yeastAntioxidants and food for the good bacteria.
Borage oil, marigold extract0.1%Gamma-linolenic acid for the skin; lutein from the marigold.
Hydrolysed crustaceans, hydrolysed cartilageGlucosamine and chondroitin with no quantity given. A nod to older joints, nothing you can count.

Vitamins A and D3, iron, iodine, copper, manganese, zinc and selenium all dosed per kilo, with L-carnitine at 400 mg, tea extract at 150 mg and clinoptilolite clay at 10 g.

The energy figure is our estimate, so read 358 kcal per 100g as a close approximation.

Named ingredients

Rice, vegetable protein isolate*, dehydrated poultry protein, maize, animal fats, hydrolysed animal proteins, beet pulp, vegetable fibres, minerals, fish oil, soya oil, dehydrated tomato, fructo-oligo-saccharides, hydrolysed yeast (source of manno-oligo-saccharides), borage oil (0.1%), marigold extract (source of lutein), hydrolysed crustaceans (source of glucosamine), hydrolysed cartilage (source of chondroitin).

Against the range

One small-breed kibble with rice first and a vegetable protein isolate ahead of the first meat. Every animal entry is named by family, never by species, and every added mineral carries a printed dose.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

358.4 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

27%

Fat

14%

Fibre

2.8%

Ash

5.8%

Moisture

Dry weight

Protein

29.7%

Fat

15.4%

Fibre

3.1%

Ash

6.4%

Carbs

45.4%

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

22%

Carbs

55.2%

Veg

17.4%

Oils

4.4%

Other

0.9%

Pricing & size