Royal Canin

Royal Canin Chihuahua Puppy review

Name: Royal Canin Chihuahua Puppy
Brand: Royal Canin

43.6/100Average

DryPuppy

A compact puppy kibble for the smallest dogs, with a short list and no wheat or maize gluten. At 405 kcal per 100g it gets more energy into a tiny portion than most puppy foods. A Poor transparency reading, from the unnamed meats and the missing calcium figure, keeps it in our Average band.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Chihuahua and other toy pups, who get more from each mouthful than on the typical puppy kibble at 376
Owners who prefer a shorter list; this is the leanest of Royal Canin's breed puppy recipes
Small, particular eaters, with fat at 20.0% carrying flavour through the kibble
Gut support from fructo-oligo-saccharides, hydrolysed yeast and beet pulp
A printed trace mineral panel, zinc at 107 mg and iron at 39 mg per kilo

Worth watching

No calcium figure, on a food sold for growth
Nothing to build an exclusion diet on: no bird named in the poultry protein, no animal behind the fats
Maize, soya oil and fish oil are all in the bowl
Rich at 21.7% fat in dry matter, so weigh portions for a quiet pup

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

How this scores

How we score

43.6/100Average

Protein and processingAverage

Nutritional balanceGood

TransparencyPoor

ValueAverage

The details

Dog fit

Listed for small-breed puppies, Chihuahuas above all. The daily ration is small enough that a few grams counts, so use scales and adjust as the months pass.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Puppy

Breed size

Small

Main protein

Poultry

The score, in context

Royal Canin Chihuahua Puppy 43.6

All one Average. Typical dry food: Good.

Nutritional balance holds up; the unnamed meats and the missing calcium line are what pull transparency down to Poor.

What's in it

Dehydrated poultry proteinNo bird named; it can be chicken one month and turkey the next.
RiceTakes the starch with maize.
Animal fatsUnnamed animal.
Maize
Vegetable protein isolate
Beet pulp, vegetable fibresSomething for the gut to work with.
Hydrolysed animal proteinsAnother entry with no species.
Soya oil, fish oilThe essential fats between them.
Minerals, fructo-oligo-saccharides, hydrolysed yeast, yeast extractsPrebiotics, MOS and betaglucans.
Marigold extractA source of lutein.

Printed in full: vitamins A, D3 and E, six trace minerals down to selenium at 0.08 mg, plus clinoptilolite at 10 g and yucca extract per kilo.

No calcium figure on a growth food. A toy breed carries less risk than a giant one, but the figure should be there.

No moisture declared, so the dry-matter figures assume 8%.

Named ingredients

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

Against the range

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

405.1 kcal/100g

Protein

30%

Fat

20%

Fibre

Ash

7.2%

Dry weight

Protein

32.6%

Fat

21.7%

Fibre

2.2%

Ash

7.8%

Carbs

35.7%

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

42.9%

Carbs

41.6%

Veg

4.8%

Oils

10.1%

Other

0.7%

Pricing & size