Royal Canin

Royal Canin Golden Retriever Adult review

Name: Royal Canin Golden Retriever Adult
Brand: Royal Canin

41.9/100Average

DryAdultSenior

A deliberately lean kibble for a breed that finds calories everywhere, with fat declared at 13.0%. Borage oil, fish oil and lutein do the coat work, and psyllium looks after digestion. It comes out in our Average band, mostly for what the label leaves unnamed.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Adult and older Golden Retrievers, both named on the same bag
Dogs who gain weight easily, with energy at 362 kcal per 100g
Coat condition: borage oil at 0.1%, fish oil, and lutein from marigold
A steady digestion, from beet pulp, psyllium husks and seeds, and fructo-oligo-saccharides

Worth watching

Three cereals in the top four, with carbohydrate at 48.1% of dry matter against 46.2% typical
Glucosamine drawn from hydrolysed crustaceans
No species named for any animal entry, which limits the label on an elimination diet

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

How this scores

How we score

41.9/100Average

Protein and processingAverage

Nutritional balanceAverage

TransparencyPoor

ValueAverage

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adult and senior Golden Retrievers. A Golden is well above the 15kg benchmark, so read the bag's own table: 336 grams a day for a 30kg dog at low activity.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult, Senior

Main protein

Poultry

The score, in context

Royal Canin Golden Retriever Adult 41.9

All one Average. Typical dry food: Good.

Light on both fat and meat at once, with nothing named to species, though the leanness is a design decision that suits a Golden prone to gaining.

What's in it

Dehydrated poultry proteinCould be any domestic bird.
Maize, rice, wheatThree cereals in a row, a lot of grain for one recipe.
Hydrolysed animal proteins, animal fatsSource left open.
Vegetable protein isolateProtein from a plant, not meat.
Vegetable fibres, beet pulp
Fish oil, soya oilMarine omega 3 from the fish oil.
Dehydrated tomato, minerals
Fructo-oligo-saccharides, psyllium husks and seedsSoluble fibre and food for the gut bacteria.
Hydrolysed crustaceans, hydrolysed cartilageSources of glucosamine and chondroitin. The first is shellfish.
Borage oil, marigold extract0.1%Borage for gamma-linolenic acid, marigold for lutein.

Zinc, the mineral a coat leans on hardest, is dosed at 138 mg per kilo among a fully printed panel.

No moisture figure on the label, so the dry matter readings use the usual 8% for a kibble.

Named ingredients

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

Against the range

Dehydrated poultry protein leads, then maize, rice and wheat. Fat is held deliberately low, and no animal entry names a species.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

361.9 kcal/100g

Protein

25%

Fat

13%

Fibre

3.8%

Ash

Dry weight

Protein

27.2%

Fat

14.1%

Fibre

4.1%

Ash

6.5%

Carbs

48.1%

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

43.3%

Carbs

50.6%

Veg

2.9%

Oils

2.9%

Other

0.3%

Pricing & size