Royal Canin

Royal Canin Dalmatian Adult review

Name: Royal Canin Dalmatian Adult
Brand: Royal Canin

35/100Average

DryAdultSenior

The odd one out among breed foods, and deliberately so. Dalmatians handle purines differently from other breeds, so this recipe leans on egg and plant protein with no meat meal at all. It sits in our Average band, and the construction that puts it there is the one the recipe was designed around.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Adult dalmatians, on a food built the way diets for the breed usually are
Dogs that do well on egg, the best protein source on this list and among the best digested there is
Active adults who take their energy from fat: 390 kcal in every 100 grams
Owners who want the added minerals printed with a dose, zinc at 151 mg and selenium at 0.22 mg per kilo
An older dalmatian still on adult food. The label covers seniors too

Worth watching

Protein at 23.9% of dry matter is low for an adult dry food, by design
Wheat flour and maize gluten are both on the list
Fish oil is an ingredient, so the food is not fish free
The animal entries go unnamed: animal fats and hydrolysed animal proteins

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

How this scores

How we score

35/100Average

Protein and processingPoor

Nutritional balanceAverage

TransparencyAverage

ValueAverage

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adult and senior dalmatians. Portion from the pack's table, which runs to 358 grams a day at 36kg for a dog at low activity, and let the waistline confirm it.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult, Senior

Main protein

Fish

The score, in context

Royal Canin Dalmatian Adult 35.0

All one Average. Typical dry food: Good.

The placing is a general nutrition comparison; for the breed this was written for, the low animal protein is the point.

What's in it

Rice, maize flourThe base. Flour cooks and digests more readily than whole cereal.
Animal fatsSecond on the list and where much of the energy comes from. The word names no species.
Vegetable protein isolateCarries the maker's asterisk about protein chosen for very high digestibility.
Wheat flourThe entry most often blamed when a dog reacts to a cereal, though most dogs eat it without incident.
Egg powderThe quality entry, doing the work a dried meat would normally do.
Maize glutenA protein-rich by-product of maize processing.
Minerals, vegetable fibres
Hydrolysed animal proteinsUnnamed, like the fats.
Fish oil, soya oilThe omega 3s the fat blend does not supply on its own.
Hydrolysed crustaceans, marigold extract, hydrolysed cartilageGlucosamine and chondroitin with no quantity given, and lutein from the marigold.

Per kilo: vitamin A 28000 IU, vitamin D3 800 IU, iron 72 mg, zinc 151 mg, manganese 51 mg, iodine 4.6 mg, selenium 0.22 mg and copper held at 7 mg.

Moisture is not declared, so the dry-matter figures assume a standard 8%.

Named ingredients

Rice, maize flour, animal fats, vegetable protein isolate*, wheat flour, egg powder, maize gluten, minerals, vegetable fibres, hydrolysed animal proteins, fish oil, soya oil, hydrolysed crustaceans (source of glucosamine), marigold extract (source of lutein), hydrolysed cartilage (source of chondroitin).

Against the range

There is no meat meal anywhere on the list. The protein comes from egg powder, a vegetable protein isolate, maize gluten and hydrolysed animal proteins, on a base of rice, maize flour and wheat flour. Protein is held to 22.0% as fed, and animal fats at 18.0% carry the energy up to 390 kcal per 100g.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

389.7 kcal/100g

Protein

22%

Fat

18%

Fibre

2.8%

Ash

6.4%

Dry weight

Protein

23.9%

Fat

19.6%

Fibre

Ash

Carbs

46.5%

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

5.5%

Carbs

76.9%

Veg

7.4%

Oils

Other

1.2%

Pricing & size