Royal Canin

Royal Canin Medium Adult review

Name: Royal Canin Medium Adult
Brand: Royal Canin

44.9/100Average

DryAdult

The everyday Royal Canin kibble for medium breeds, and it lands in our Average band. That is a verdict on a vague list: poultry with no bird, animal fat with no species, and cereals in four of the first five places. Dogs do perfectly well on it, and the additive panel is dosed line by line.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Medium adults between 11kg and 25kg, the span the feeding table covers
Owners who like every vitamin and trace mineral dosed in print
Dogs that need coaxing, with hydrolysed animal proteins and animal fats doing the persuading
Portioning by table, with a gram figure against each bodyweight

Worth watching

Generic animal ingredients, so no strict exclusion plan can rely on this label
Wheat second on the list and again as wheat flour
Fish oil and dehydrated pork proteins, for a household steering around either

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

How this scores

How we score

44.9/100Average

Protein and processingAverage

Nutritional balanceAverage

TransparencyAverage

ValueAverage

The details

Dog fit

Listed for medium adult dogs. The bag's table asks 150 grams for an 11kg dog and 277 grams for a 25kg one at low activity; treat those as starting points.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Medium

Main protein

Poultry

The score, in context

Royal Canin Medium Adult 44.9

All one Average. Typical dry food: Good.

A band below the typical adult kibble because the label names so little; the analysis itself is unremarkable without being poor.

What's in it

Dehydrated poultry proteinsDried, so it holds its place honestly. Poultry could be chicken, turkey, duck or goose.
Wheat, maize flour, wheat flour, maizeA cereal-based build. Wheat is the one to watch.
Hydrolysed animal proteins, animal fatsPalatants, with no species named.
Dehydrated pork proteinsThe one named animal, and fairly novel for a lot of dogs.
BarleyOne of the better cereals, with fibre and micronutrients.
Maize gluten
Beet pulp, minerals
Soya oilOne a sensitive dog's owner tends to want flagged.
Yeasts products, yeastsA source of manno-oligosaccharides for gut flora.
Fish oil, algal oilEPA and DHA.

A complete panel with a dose against each line, from vitamins A, D3, C and E to zinc, manganese, iron, copper, iodine and selenium.

Calcium is not declared, which matters only if the bag were ever shared with a growing puppy.

Named ingredients

Dehydrated poultry proteins, wheat, maize flour, wheat flour, maize, hydrolysed animal proteins, animal fats, dehydrated pork proteins, barley, maize gluten, beet pulp, minerals, soya oil, yeasts products, fish oil, yeasts (source of manno-oligosaccharides), algal oil Schizochytrium sp.

Against the range

One cereal-led kibble for medium adults. Dehydrated poultry proteins lead, wheat and maize do most of the carrying, and dehydrated pork proteins are the one entry that names an animal.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

384.3 kcal/100g

Protein

25%

Fat

14%

Fibre

1.4%

Ash

6.3%

Moisture

Dry weight

Protein

27.2%

Fat

15.2%

Fibre

1.5%

Ash

6.8%

Carbs

49.3%

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

41.5%

Carbs

56.7%

Oils

1.5%

Other

0.2%

Pricing & size