Royal Canin

Royal Canin Maxi Puppy Chunks In Gravy review

Name: Royal Canin Maxi Puppy Chunks In Gravy
Brand: Royal Canin

39.9/100Average

WetPuppy

A large-breed puppy food in chunks and gravy, sitting in our Average band. The analysis is respectable, with protein at 40.9% of dry matter. The recipe, though, is seven umbrella terms long and names nothing.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Big pups that eat more happily from a wet bowl
A meat-led analysis: protein at 40.9% of dry matter
Topping up a dry diet, with 79.7% moisture bringing water to the bowl
Little-and-often feeding, sealed in 140g servings
Richness for growth, fat at 24.6% of dry matter

Worth watching

No named ingredient, so the animals and grains can change batch to batch
No use for an elimination diet or a pup avoiding one protein
No calcium figure on a large-breed growth food
Lighter than usual at an estimated 85 kcal per 100g, so a big pup gets through a lot of servings

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

How this scores

How we score

39.9/100Average

Protein and processingAverage

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyAverage

ValueAverage

The details

Dog fit

Listed for large-breed puppies. Follow the pack's feeding table and weigh the bowl for the first week, since the daily need shifts every fortnight.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Puppy

The score, in context

Royal Canin Maxi Puppy Chunks In Gravy 39.9

All one Average. Typical wet food: Excellent.

Most of the distance to the typical puppy wet food is a transparency distance; the analysis reads like a proper meat-based wet food.

What's in it

Meat and animal derivativesMeat leads by weight. The term never says which animals or which parts.
CerealsThe starch, unnamed. Carbohydrate runs above the puppy wet norm.
Vegetable protein extractsPart of the strong protein reading is plant.
Oils and fatsA good level for growth, source left open.
Derivatives of vegetable origin
Minerals
Yeasts

A short panel for a growth food: vitamin D3 with iron, iodine, copper, manganese and zinc, plus clinoptilolite as a technological additive.

No calcium figure on a large-breed growth food. Ask Royal Canin for it.

No energy declared; 85 kcal per 100g is our estimate.

Named ingredients

Meat and animal derivatives, cereals, vegetable protein extracts, oils and fats, derivatives of vegetable origin, minerals, yeasts.

Against the range

One wet growth recipe, written in seven category terms and nothing else. Meat and animal derivatives lead by weight and cereals follow, with no animal or grain named anywhere on the list.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

84.8 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

8.3%

Fat

Fibre

1.2%

Ash

Moisture

79.7%

Dry weight

Protein

40.9%

Fat

24.6%

Fibre

5.9%

Ash

9.9%

Carbs

18.7%

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

37.7%

Added water

14.7%

Carbs

41.1%

Oils

4.1%

Other

2.3%

Pricing & size