Royal Canin Veterinary Diet Gastrointestinal review

Ingredients, as declared: Rice, dehydrated poultry proteins, maize, animal fats*,hydrolysed animal proteins, egg powder, yeasts products, beet pulp, soya oil*, vegetable fibres, minerals, fish oil*, psyllium husks and seeds, fructo-oligosaccharides, algal oil Schizochytrium sp. source of DHA)*, yeasts (source of manno-oligosaccharides), marigold meal. Highly digestible protein sources: 67.4%, *Highly digestible fat sources: 12.3%.

Rice leads, then dehydrated poultry proteins and maize. The pack follows its ingredient list with two figures of its own, highly digestible protein sources at 67.4% and highly digestible fat sources at 12.3%, with asterisks marking which entries it counts towards each. Poultry stays a category throughout, and nothing at all is named for the hydrolysed animal proteins.

Beet pulp, vegetable fibres and psyllium husks and seeds carry the fibre between them, psyllium being the soluble sort that takes up water. Two prebiotics are declared, fructo-oligosaccharides and a yeast source of manno-oligosaccharides, and algal oil from Schizochytrium is named as where the DHA comes from.

The recipe holds egg powder and fish oil, and the animal fats and hydrolysed proteins are left unnamed. It is not a restricted or single protein food, nor is it sold as one. If your dog is partway through an elimination trial, that is the detail to raise before the first bowl goes down.

Protein reads 27.8% on a dry matter basis with fat at 22.2%, the carbohydrate estimate at 40.8% and ash at 7.1%. Energy is declared at 412 kcal per 100g. Take the moisture out and calcium lands at 1.31%. A mineral load like that comes with how this kind of diet is built, and it is nothing to hold against the recipe.

The added panel prints taurine at 1.5 g per kilo, vitamin E at 500 mg and vitamin C at 300 mg, with clinoptilolite listed at 5g under technological additives. The bag's table opens at 45 grams a day for a 2kg dog and reaches 714 grams at 80kg, though the amount your own dog gets is settled with the vet who prescribed it.

It is sold in 2kg, 7.5kg and 15kg bags.