Royal Canin

Royal Canin Dermacomfort Care Loaf review

Name: Royal Canin Dermacomfort Care Loaf
Brand: Royal Canin

39.1/100Average

WetAdultSenior

A smooth loaf in 85 g portions for small dogs whose skin and coat need attention. Every ingredient is a category term, so the skin support is a promise about the formula and nothing you can trace on the pack. It sits in our Average band because of that silence, not the analysis.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Small adult dogs with skin and coat to look after, the dog the maker designed it for
Portions measured out at 85 g a serving
Dogs that need fat for coat condition: 30.0% of dry matter
Seniors as well as adults
Dogs that struggle with texture. A loaf takes no chewing
A routine where every serving matches the last

Worth watching

No animal named anywhere, so a suspected food allergy cannot be tested on it
No fatty acid figures, which leaves the coat claim resting on the maker's word
Various sugars on the list
A skin problem that will not settle needs a vet's eye alongside any change of food

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

How this scores

How we score

39.1/100Average

Protein and processingAverage

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyAverage

ValueAverage

The details

Dog fit

Listed for small adult and senior dogs. Energy is not declared, so the 99 kcal per 100g is our estimate; weigh portions against your dog's condition.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult, Senior

Breed size

Small

The score, in context

Royal Canin Dermacomfort Care Loaf 39.1

All one Average. Typical wet food: Excellent.

The placing comes from what the label leaves unsaid; the analysis itself reads normally, and nutritional balance is Outstanding.

What's in it

Meat and animal derivativesThe broadest term in the rulebook: any warm-blooded land animal, free to change batch by batch.
Derivatives of vegetable originNearly as wide.
Cereals
MineralsListed ahead of the oils, so more mineral than added oil.
Oils and fatsWhere a shiny coat starts, though the source is not named.
Various sugars

Vitamin D3 with iron, iodine, copper, manganese and zinc, zinc the largest at 30mg per kilo, plus clinoptilolite to firm the loaf.

No animal is named, so this cannot serve an elimination trial.

Named ingredients

Meat and animal derivatives, derivatives of vegetable origin, cereals, minerals, oils and fats, various sugars.

Against the range

One recipe, six category terms long: meat and animal derivatives, derivatives of vegetable origin, cereals, minerals, oils and fats, various sugars. No animal and no plant is named. The analysis is ordinary for a wet food, with fat the figure that stands out at 30.0% of dry matter, and the vitamin and trace mineral panel is dosed throughout.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

98.8 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

8.6%

Fat

6.6%

Fibre

1.3%

Ash

1.9%

Moisture

78%

Dry weight

Protein

39.1%

Fat

30%

Fibre

5.9%

Ash

8.6%

Carbs

16.4%

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

39.4%

Added water

13%

Carbs

40.8%

Oils

2.6%

Other

4.3%

Pricing & size