Royal Canin

Royal Canin Maxi Puppy review

Name: Royal Canin Maxi Puppy
Brand: Royal Canin

49.9/100Average

DryPuppy

The brand's large breed growth kibble, and it sits in our Average band. Unusually for this family, it names a second meat, pork, outright. The figure a big-pup owner most wants, calcium, is missing from the pack.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Large breed puppies, on a food written for their size
Pups who do well with pork in the bowl
Brain and eye support, with algal oil as a DHA source
Joint ingredients from the start: fermentation glucosamine and hydrolysed cartilage
Growing pups with steady appetites, at 379 kcal per 100g against 376 typical

Worth watching

No calcium figure, the number you most want in writing for a large breed
A firmly cereal-based kibble: wheat, maize and their glutens all appear
Unnamed poultry and hydrolysed animal proteins, so no exclusion diet
Soya oil as well as fish oil

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

How this scores

How we score

49.9/100Average

Protein and processingAverage

Nutritional balanceGood

TransparencyAverage

ValueAverage

The details

Dog fit

Listed for large breed puppies. Feed to the bag's chart for age and expected adult weight, with a hand on the ribs as the check, and ask the maker for the calcium figure first.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Puppy

Main protein

Poultry

The score, in context

Royal Canin Maxi Puppy 49.9

All one Average. Typical dry food: Good.

Ordinary numbers for a large breed growth food; the label is what holds it back, with meat named by category and no calcium figure.

What's in it

Dehydrated poultry proteinNo bird named.
Maize flour, rice
Dehydrated pork proteinNamed outright, and few dogs will have eaten it before.
Animal fats, maize
Wheat gluten, wheat flourGluten is concentrated plant protein, so some of the 30.0% protein is cereal.
Hydrolysed animal proteins, mineralsSpecies not named.
Beet pulp, maize gluten, vegetable fibres
Soya oil, fish oilOmega 6 and omega 3.
Fructo-oligo-saccharides, psyllium, hydrolysed yeast, algal oilyeast 0.30%Digestion and DHA, without doses.
Yucca juice, marigold meal, glucosamine, hydrolysed cartilage

A dosed panel from vitamin A down to selenium, with clinoptilolite added as a technological additive.

No calcium figure on the label of a kibble sold for large breed growth. Ash is 8.9% of dry matter, without the split.

Named ingredients

Dehydrated poultry protein, maize flour, rice, dehydrated pork protein*, animal fats, maize, wheat gluten*, wheat flour, hydrolysed animal proteins, minerals, beet pulp, maize gluten, vegetable fibres, soya oil, fish oil, fructo-oligo-saccharides, psyllium husks and seeds, hydrolysed yeast (source of manno-oligo-saccharides and betaglucans) (0.30%), algal oil Schizochytrium sp. (source of DHA), Yucca Schidigera juice, marigold meal, glucosamine from fermentation, hydrolysed cartilage (source of chondroitin).

Against the range

A single large breed growth kibble: dehydrated poultry protein leads and dehydrated pork protein is named fourth. Maize flour, rice, maize and wheat carry the base, with several gluten entries adding plant protein. DHA comes from algal oil, and the joint ingredients close the list.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

379.1 kcal/100g

Protein

30%

Fat

16%

Fibre

2.5%

Ash

8.2%

Moisture

Dry weight

Protein

32.6%

Fat

17.4%

Fibre

2.7%

Ash

8.9%

Carbs

38.4%

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

47.4%

Carbs

48.4%

Veg

0.1%

Oils

3.4%

Other

0.7%

Pricing & size