Royal Canin

Royal Canin Medium Digestive Care review

Name: Royal Canin Medium Digestive Care
Brand: Royal Canin

38.6/100Average

DryAdultSenior

A kibble for medium breed dogs with loose stools, arranged around digestibility from the first line. Rice leads, and the gut work comes from two prebiotics, two fibre sources and a mineral clay. It lands in our Average band because the label keeps its animal sources generic.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Medium breed dogs with unreliable stools, the complaint the recipe is built around
Owners who want the digestive work named, clinoptilolite at 10 g per kilo included
A dog that needs skin help too, with borage oil and fish oil in the mix
Older medium dogs, since the label covers the senior years

Worth watching

Fat at 19.6% of dry matter, high for an everyday food, so bring a dog that struggles with rich meals on slowly
Wheat twice on the list
Generic animal entries, so it cannot anchor a trial to find a suspect protein

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

How this scores

How we score

38.6/100Average

Protein and processingPoor

Nutritional balanceAverage

TransparencyPoor

ValueAverage

The details

Dog fit

Listed for medium adults and seniors. The table puts a 15kg dog at 210 grams a day; weigh the first week of meals and let the waistline settle it.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult, Senior

Breed size

Medium

Main protein

Poultry

The score, in context

Royal Canin Medium Digestive Care 38.6

All one Average. Typical dry food: Good.

The gap to the typical dry food is mostly about what the label leaves unsaid, not about how the food treats a delicate gut.

What's in it

RiceFirst on the list by choice: the gentlest cereal for a delicate gut.
Dehydrated poultry proteinA family name, with no bird given.
Wheat flour, animal fats, wheatWheat appears twice; the fat names no species.
Maize gluten, vegetable protein isolatePlant sources lifting the protein figure.
Barley
Hydrolysed animal proteinsSpecies not given.
Beet pulp, vegetable fibresThe bulk of the gut work; the type of fibre matters more than the amount.
Soya oil, fish oilFish oil puts fish in the bowl.
Fructo-oligo-saccharides, hydrolysed yeastTwo prebiotics feeding the useful bacteria.
Minerals, borage oil, marigold extractGLA and lutein.

A fully dosed vitamin and trace mineral panel, plus clinoptilolite at 10 g per kilo, a sedimentary clay that holds water in the gut and firms the stool.

No calcium figure is declared, and the energy figure is our estimate.

Named ingredients

Rice, dehydrated poultry protein, wheat flour, animal fats, wheat, maize gluten, vegetable protein isolate*, barley, hydrolysed animal proteins, beet pulp, soya oil, minerals, fish oil, vegetable fibres, fructo-oligo-saccharides, hydrolysed yeast (source of manno-oligo-saccharides), borage oil, marigold extract (source of lutein).

Against the range

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

384 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

25%

Fat

18%

Fibre

1.8%

Ash

6.2%

Moisture

Dry weight

Protein

27.2%

Fat

19.6%

Fibre

Ash

6.7%

Carbs

44.5%

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

25.5%

Carbs

66.9%

Veg

1.8%

Oils

5.5%

Other

0.3%

Pricing & size