Royal Canin

Royal Canin Labrador Retriever Chunks In Gravy review

Name: Royal Canin Labrador Retriever Chunks In Gravy
Brand: Royal Canin

39.3/100Average

WetAdultSenior

A lean 140 g pouch written for the Labrador, in our Average band. Fat at 3.3% suits a breed that puts on weight given half a chance. The label is category-led from start to finish, so there is little on it to hold the maker to, and nothing alarming in the gravy either.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Big, food-motivated dogs on a steady-weight plan
Labrador owners who like a recipe portioned for the breed
Adult and senior dogs carrying on with the same dinner
Gravy lovers. The chunks arrive properly coated
Dogs shy of the water bowl, with moisture at 79.0%

Worth watching

No animal or grain named, so no use for an exclusion trial
Molluscs and crustaceans on the list, one for a shellfish avoidance list
Cereals carry a lot of the pouch: carbohydrate at an estimated 29.3% of dry matter against a usual 15.8%
No energy figure on the pack, so any portion from our estimate is a starting point

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

How this scores

How we score

39.3/100Average

Protein and processingAverage

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyAverage

ValueAverage

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adult and senior Labradors. The pack's rows ask 1470 grams a day at 26 kg and 1890 grams at 38 kg; weigh the first fortnight and watch the waistline.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult, Senior

The score, in context

Royal Canin Labrador Retriever Chunks In Gravy 39.3

All one Average. Typical wet food: Excellent.

What can be checked reads decently; the wording gives almost nothing to check, and the unnamed cereals do real work.

What's in it

Meat and animal derivativesA legal heading: any warm-blooded land animal, in any share.
CerealsAny grain.
Derivatives of vegetable origin
Vegetable protein extractsPlant protein from unnamed plants, so not all the protein is animal. A door left open for a soya or wheat reactor.
Oils and fats
Minerals
Various sugarsLate on the list, so low, but no figure.
Molluscs and crustaceansShellfish, the usual route to glucosamine. No dose printed.

Every entry dosed: vitamin D3, iron, iodine, copper, manganese, zinc and selenium, plus clinoptilolite at 2.2 g per kilo to hold the mix together.

No energy figure on the pack; ours is an estimate.

Named ingredients

Meat and animal derivatives, cereals, derivatives of vegetable origin, vegetable protein extracts, oils and fats, minerals, various sugars, molluscs and crustaceans.

Against the range

A breed pouch with a category-led label: meat and animal derivatives, cereals and derivatives of vegetable origin open the list, none of them named. Fat is low at 3.3%, converting to 15.7% of dry matter, while estimated carbohydrate reaches 29.3%.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

80 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

8.7%

Fat

3.3%

Fibre

1.25%

Ash

1.6%

Moisture

79%

Dry weight

Protein

41.4%

Fat

15.7%

Fibre

Ash

7.6%

Carbs

29.3%

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

36.7%

Added water

14%

Carbs

44.9%

Oils

2.4%

Other

1.9%

Pricing & size