Royal Canin

Royal Canin Gastrointestinal Puppy Ultra Soft Mousse 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 offers this mousse within its Gastrointestinal range as the puppy version, a soft textured wet food the maker intends for young dogs whose digestion is being supported by a vet.

WetPuppyAdult

The puppy version of Royal Canin's Gastrointestinal range, a very soft wet food for young dogs whose digestion is being supported by a vet. We leave it unscored. The mousse texture is half the design: it can be syringed or spooned into a pup with no interest in chewing.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Puppies on a vet-supervised gastrointestinal plan
Pups that will not chew, since a mousse can go in by syringe or spoon
A growth recipe with calcium in the analysis at 1.58% of dry matter
Owners who want the vitamins, taurine and trace minerals printed per kilogram

Worth watching

Caseinate is a milk protein, so dairy is in the recipe though the pack never says the word
Poultry entries name no bird, leaving chicken, turkey, duck and goose open
Fish oil adds a fish element

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

The details

Dog fit

Fed on a vet's advice to puppies with a gastrointestinal condition. Portions move with weight and appetite week by week, so take the amount from the supervising vet.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Puppy, Adult

Breed size

Small

Main protein

Poultry

What's in it

Poultry by-productsA category, not a bird.
Pork by-products, pork gelatine
Rice flour
Powder celluloseFibre that mostly stays intact through the gut.
MineralsDeclared as a block near the top; the calcium for growth comes from here.
Hydrolysed poultry byproductsAgain no bird named.
Fish oilA fish element without fish as a meat.
CaseinateA milk protein, so the recipe contains dairy.
Yeasts, pork blood productsBlood products add colour and protein.
Marigold meal

Vitamins D3, E and C with taurine at 1.2g, plus iron, iodine, copper, manganese and zinc per kilogram and clinoptilolite as a technological additive.

The 46.2% and 0.4% figures describe how the protein and fat sources were chosen, not how much meat went in.

Calcium works out at 1.58% of dry matter, the figure to quote to your vet for a fast growing large breed pup.

Named ingredients

Poultry by-products, pork by-products, pork gelatine, rice flour, powder cellulose, minerals, hydrolysed poultry byproducts, fish oil*, caseinate, yeasts and part thereof, pork blood products, marigold meal. Highly digestible protein sources: 46.2%. *Highly digestible fat sources: 0.4%.

Against the range

A veterinary mousse for puppies, with no score from us. Poultry and pork by-products lead the label, and moisture is declared at 78.5%. Out of the water, protein reads 46.5% of dry matter and fat 27.0%.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

93.8 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

10%

Fat

5.8%

Fibre

0.9%

Ash

2.1%

Moisture

78.5%

Dry weight

Protein

46.5%

Fat

27%

Fibre

4.2%

Ash

9.8%

Carbs

12.5%

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

18.4%

Added water

32.3%

Carbs

Oils

46.3%

Other

1.1%

Pricing & size