Royal Canin

Royal Canin Cavalier King Charles Puppy review

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

41.8/100Average

DryPuppy

A Cavalier King Charles growth kibble with two inclusions rarely seen on a puppy bag: taurine at 2.2 g and L-carnitine at 400 mg per kilo. It sits in our Average band. That is a mark on the label, which names almost none of its animal ingredients and prints no calcium.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Cavalier King Charles puppies, the one breed it is drawn up for
Owners drawn to taurine and L-carnitine together on a growth label
Small pups eating small amounts, at an estimated 380 kcal per 100g
Early coat care, with borage oil for gamma-linolenic acid
Digestive support: fructo-oligo-saccharides at 0.34%, with beet pulp behind

Worth watching

No calcium line in the analysis
Poultry, animal fats and hydrolysed animal proteins with no animal named
Maize gluten lifts the protein from a plant
Fish oil and soya oil, so neither fish nor soya can be avoided

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

How this scores

How we score

41.8/100Average

Protein and processingAverage

Nutritional balanceGood

TransparencyPoor

ValueAverage

The details

Dog fit

Listed for small-breed puppies, written towards a finished adult weight of 7kg. Let the chart move with your puppy's age rather than fixing one measure.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Puppy

Breed size

Small

Main protein

Poultry

The score, in context

Royal Canin Cavalier King Charles Puppy 41.8

All one Average. Typical dry food: Good.

The recipe is complete and its extras are real; what holds it down is a label that names almost none of its animals and an analysis that stops early.

What's in it

Dehydrated poultry proteinA group of birds, and the bird can change with nothing changing on the bag. No percentage given.
Rice, maizeMost of the recipe comes from here.
Animal fatsNo animal named.
Vegetable protein isolate, beet pulp, maize flour
Hydrolysed animal proteinsAgain unnamed.
Maize glutenA milling by-product used to raise the protein figure.
Minerals
Fish oil, soya oil, borage oilBorage for the coat.
Fructo-oligo-saccharides, hydrolysed yeast, yeast extracts0.34% FOSGut support: MOS and betaglucans from the yeasts.
Marigold extractFor lutein.

A fully dosed panel of vitamins A, D3 and E and six trace elements, plus taurine, L-carnitine, clinoptilolite and yucca extract.

No moisture or energy is declared; our dry matter conversions rest on an assumed 8%.

Named ingredients

Dehydrated poultry protein, rice, maize, animal fats, vegetable protein isolate*, beet pulp, maize flour, hydrolysed animal proteins, maize gluten, minerals, fish oil, soya oil, fructo-oligo-saccharides (0.34%), hydrolysed yeast (source of manno-oligo-saccharides), yeasts extracts (source of betaglucans), borage oil, marigold extract (source of lutein).

Against the range

One breed-specific puppy kibble. Dehydrated poultry protein opens the list with rice and maize behind it, and the animal fats and hydrolysed animal proteins name no animal. Maize appears three times. The additive panel is fully dosed, including taurine and L-carnitine, while the analysis stops after four lines: no moisture, energy or calcium.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

380.2 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

30%

Fat

18%

Fibre

1.5%

Ash

7.6%

Dry weight

Protein

32.6%

Fat

19.6%

Fibre

1.6%

Ash

8.3%

Carbs

37.9%

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

39.9%

Carbs

49.3%

Veg

4.1%

Oils

5.7%

Other

0.9%

Pricing & size