Royal Canin

Royal Canin Medium Ageing In Loaf review

Name: Royal Canin Medium Ageing In Loaf
Brand: Royal Canin

40.9/100Average

WetAdultSenior

A soft, spoonable loaf for medium dogs that have started to slow down, and our Average band follows from a label that declares very little. Meat and animal derivatives leads, cereals sit behind, and nothing after that is named. The analysis behind the vague list is meat led and rich.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Older medium breed dogs, the dog Royal Canin wrote this loaf for
An ageing mouth that manages better with no chewing at all
Poor drinkers. Moisture is declared at 79.7%, so most of the meal is water
A dog that does well on a rich bowl: protein at 41.4% of dry matter and fat at 27.1%
Homes where the vet practice recommends Royal Canin and the whole diet stays with one maker

Worth watching

No animal named, so this cannot carry an elimination diet or a strict avoidance plan
Cereals with no grain named, which makes steering round wheat or maize hard
A printed feeding table that puts an 11kg dog on 67 g a day, far too little for that size

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

How this scores

How we score

40.9/100Average

Protein and processingAverage

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyAverage

ValueAverage

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adult and senior medium dogs. The label prints no energy figure, so the 91 kcal per 100g is our estimate: weigh the first fortnight's portions against your dog's waistline.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult, Senior

Breed size

Medium

The score, in context

Royal Canin Medium Ageing In Loaf 40.9

All one Average. Typical wet food: Excellent.

The score reflects how little the label declares, and says nothing against the safety of the food or the research behind it.

What's in it

Meat and animal derivativesHeads the list, so animal content outweighs the rest. No species named, and the source can change without the pack changing.
CerealsNo grain named. Carries much of the starch.
Oils and fatsNo source given.
Derivatives of vegetable origin
Minerals
Yeasts

Vitamin D3 at 160 IU, vitamin C at 70 mg and vitamin E at 145 mg per kilo, with iron, iodine, copper, manganese and zinc, every figure printed. The C and E pairing is the clearest nod to an older dog.

Clinoptilolite at 2 g per kilo is a mineral clay there for the texture of the loaf.

Named ingredients

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

Against the range

A single loaf, described almost entirely in category terms. No species, no grain and no percentage appears anywhere on the list, so the analysis is where the label tells you anything.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

90.9 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

8.4%

Fat

5.5%

Fibre

0.6%

Ash

1.6%

Moisture

79.7%

Dry weight

Protein

41.4%

Fat

27.1%

Fibre

Ash

7.9%

Carbs

20.6%

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

40.6%

Added water

14.7%

Carbs

33.2%

Oils

7.3%

Other

4.2%

Pricing & size