Royal Canin

Royal Canin Cocker Adult review

Name: Royal Canin Cocker Adult
Brand: Royal Canin

36.1/100Average

DryAdultSenior

A breed-shaped kibble for the cocker, built on rice and maize with dehydrated poultry protein third and maize gluten fourth. It sits in our Average band, and the front half of the ingredients list holds every reason why. The back half is better: fish oil, borage oil and marigold extract, aimed at a breed with a lot of coat to keep.

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Our view

Likely to suit

A settled, well covered cocker already eating it happily
Owners who want a kibble shaped for the breed and easy to find on a shelf
Dogs with no trouble on rice or maize
Feeding for the coat, with borage oil on the list and zinc at 142 mg per kilo
A cocker moving into its senior years, as seniors are covered too

Worth watching

Two cereals sit ahead of the first meat entry, and maize gluten lifts the protein figure
Carbohydrate is estimated at 50.0% of dry matter, with crude fibre a light 1.5%
No species for the poultry or the animal fats, and fish oil rules out a fish-free bowl

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

How this scores

How we score

36.1/100Average

Protein and processingPoor

Nutritional balanceAverage

TransparencyPoor

ValueAverage

The details

Dog fit

Listed for medium-sized adult and senior cockers. The label asks 138 grams a day at 10kg and 196 grams at 16kg, so weigh your dog and let the waistline settle the rest.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult, Senior

Breed size

Medium

Main protein

Poultry

The score, in context

Royal Canin Cocker Adult 36.1

All one Average. Typical dry food: Good.

Two cereals ahead of the meat and unnamed animal entries leave a label reader little to verify, which is the honest reason it sits below the typical adult kibble.

What's in it

Rice, maizeBoth digest well once cooked. Their position puts starch in charge of the recipe.
Dehydrated poultry proteinDried before mixing, so it counts near its weight. Poultry never names the bird.
Maize glutenA protein-rich by-product that lifts the panel without adding meat.
Animal fats, hydrolysed animal proteinsNo species on either.
Beet pulp, vegetable protein isolateBeet pulp gives the stools structure.
Fish oil, soya oilMarine omega 3, and fish in the bowl.
Minerals, psyllium husks and seedsSoluble fibre.
Fructo-oligo-saccharides, hydrolysed yeast
Borage oil, marigold extract0.1% borage oilGamma-linolenic acid for the skin, and lutein from the marigold.
Hydrolysed crustaceans, hydrolysed cartilageGlucosamine and chondroitin with no figure given, and shellfish in the bag.

Every dose is printed: zinc at 142 mg, manganese at 54 mg, iron at 42 mg and copper at 13 mg per kilo. Tea extract adds polyphenols at 150 mg.

Named ingredients

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

Against the range

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

365.8 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

25%

Fat

14%

Fibre

1.4%

Ash

5.1%

Moisture

Dry weight

Protein

27.5%

Fat

15.4%

Fibre

1.5%

Ash

5.6%

Carbs

50%

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

19.9%

Carbs

74%

Veg

1.1%

Oils

4.2%

Other

0.9%

Pricing & size