Royal Canin

Royal Canin Gastrointestinal Loaf review

We don't put a score on this food. It is a veterinary diet, formulated for a diagnosed condition and meant to be fed on a vet's advice. Your vet has seen your dog and we have not, so a number from us could only pull you towards their advice or away from it, and neither of those is ours to do. What follows is what the label declares, what the analysis works out at, and where to buy it, with no judgement attached to any of it.

Royal Canin sells this loaf inside its Gastrointestinal range. It is a pork-led wet food, and the maker offers it where a vet is managing a dog's digestion.

WetPuppyAdult

A pork-led wet loaf Royal Canin offers where a vet is managing a dog's digestion, so it carries no score from us. Powdered cellulose and dried beet pulp carry the fibre, and the starch is there on purpose, for gentle, easily absorbed calories.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Dogs whose digestion a vet is managing
Stool bulk and transit, steered by powdered cellulose and beet pulp
Highly digestible protein sources declared at 52%
An additive panel with every dose printed, down to selenium at 0.04 mg

Worth watching

Pork twice over, salmon, fish oil and an unnamed poultry entry, so it is a digestive diet and no exclusion one
Rice on the label, for a dog kept off grain

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

The details

Dog fit

Listed for puppies, adults and seniors, small dogs only. The feeding table runs from 312 grams a day at 5kg, but the vet running the case sets the portion.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Puppy, Adult, Senior

Breed size

Small

Main protein

Pork

What's in it

Pork by-productsFirst on the label.
Poultry by-productsNames a category and no bird, so chicken, turkey, duck or goose are all possible.
RiceThe grain, and much of the gentle starch.
SalmonThe one species named as a whole meat.
Sunflower oil, refinedMarked as a highly digestible fat source, 1.5% between the starred fats.
Powdered cellulosePasses through largely untouched, which is why it is here.
Minerals, pork blood products
Dried beet pulpThe second fibre.
Fish oil
Yeasts and part thereof, marigold meal

Vitamins A, D3, E and C with taurine, trace minerals each dosed, and clinoptilolite at 2.5g listed as a technological additive.

Named ingredients

Pork by-products, poultry by-products, rice, salmon, sunflower oil refined*, powder cellulose, minerals, pork blood products, dried beet pulp, fish oil*, yeasts and part thereof, marigold meal. Highly digestible ingredients: Highly digestible protein sources: 52%, *highly digestible fat sources: 1.5%.

Against the range

One pork-led loaf from Royal Canin's Gastrointestinal range. Pork by-products lead, poultry by-products follow, and rice puts grain in the recipe. The figure the label prints is a digestibility one: highly digestible protein sources at 52%.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

106.5 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

8.9%

Fat

5.9%

Fibre

1.2%

Ash

2.6%

Moisture

74.2%

Dry weight

Protein

34.5%

Fat

22.9%

Fibre

4.7%

Ash

10.1%

Carbs

27.8%

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

14.6%

Added water

27.9%

Carbs

Oils

2.1%

Other

52.5%

Pricing & size