Royal Canin

Royal Canin Starter Mother & Babydog Ultra Soft Mousse review

Name: Royal Canin Starter Mother & Babydog Ultra Soft Mousse
Brand: Royal Canin

40.5/100Average

WetPuppyAdult

A very soft mousse built for two jobs: carrying a bitch through pregnancy and nursing, and giving her puppies their first food away from the teat. The analysis is concentrated and protein heavy, as that job demands. It scores Average because every entry is written in category language, nothing more.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Breeders weaning a litter. Puppies can lap it from a saucer without chewing
Bitches in late pregnancy and through nursing
Puppies just off milk, with milk on the list to bridge the change
A protein-rich bowl, at 46.5% of dry matter
Low starch, with carbohydrate estimated at 13.0% of dry matter

Worth watching

No calcium figure on a food partly meant for growth
Milk and milk derivatives, so not for a dog with a dairy problem
No named animal or grain, so early sensitivities cannot be narrowed down
No energy figure printed; the 96 kcal per 100g is our estimate

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

How this scores

How we score

40.5/100Average

Protein and processingAverage

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyAverage

ValueAverage

The details

Dog fit

Listed for small-breed puppies and their mothers. With no calcium declared, check it with your vet or breeder if the mousse is doing most of a litter's feeding.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Puppy, Adult

Breed size

Small

The score, in context

Royal Canin Starter Mother & Babydog Ultra Soft Mousse 40.5

All one Average. Typical wet food: Excellent.

A concentrated, protein-heavy analysis that suits its job, held back by a label that will not show its working.

What's in it

Meat and animal derivativesA legal umbrella covering any warm-blooded land animal, at any quality.
CerealsNo grain named.
Derivatives of vegetable origin
Minerals
Oils and fats
Milk and milk derivativesKeeps the first solid food gentle on a gut still set up for milk.
YeastsB vitamins and a savoury smell to get a reluctant puppy started.

Vitamin D3 with iron, iodine, copper, manganese and zinc, all dosed, and clinoptilolite as a technological aid. The D3 is printed while calcium, its partner in a growing skeleton, is not.

No calcium figure on the label, on a food intended partly for growing puppies.

Named ingredients

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

Against the range

Seven entries, every one in category language: meat and animal derivatives, cereals, derivatives of vegetable origin, minerals, oils and fats, milk and milk derivatives, and yeasts. No animal or grain is named and nothing carries a proportion.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

95.8 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

10%

Fat

Fibre

0.7%

Ash

Moisture

78.5%

Dry weight

Protein

46.5%

Fat

27.9%

Fibre

3.3%

Ash

9.3%

Carbs

13%

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

39.4%

Added water

13.5%

Carbs

37.8%

Oils

2.6%

Other

6.7%

Pricing & size