Royal Canin

Royal Canin Veterinary Diet Gastrointestinal Puppy review

We don't put a score on this food. It is a veterinary diet, formulated for a diagnosed condition and meant to be fed on a vet's advice. Your vet has seen your dog and we have not, so a number from us could only pull you towards their advice or away from it, and neither of those is ours to do. What follows is what the label declares, what the analysis works out at, and where to buy it, with no judgement attached to any of it.

Gastrointestinal Puppy is the growth version of Royal Canin's digestive kibble, sold in the Veterinary Diet range for young dogs whose stomachs are being looked after under a vet's direction.

DryPuppyAdult

The growth version of Royal Canin's digestive kibble, sold for young dogs whose stomachs are under a vet's care. We do not put a score on it. The analysis is where the intent shows: carbohydrate held to an estimated 33.3% of dry matter and energy at 424 kcal per 100g.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Puppies whose vet has prescribed a digestive diet
A growing frame, with calcium at 1.56% of dry matter
DHA from algal oil, the entry growth foods usually carry for it
Two fibres, soluble from psyllium and fermentable from beet pulp

Worth watching

Poultry, pork, egg, fish oil, soya and wheat gluten, so the protein side is broad
Poultry and the hydrolysed animal proteins left without a species
A daily amount the vet should set against your puppy's growth curve

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

The details

Dog fit

Listed for puppies of small breeds. Ask the vet for the daily amount before ordering.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Puppy, Adult

Breed size

Small

Main protein

Poultry

What's in it

RiceOpens the list.
Dehydrated poultry proteins, animal fatsPoultry is a category, and the fats name no animal.
Dehydrated pork proteinsThe one meat named to the species.
Maize, wheat gluten
Beet pulpA fermentable fibre.
Hydrolysed animal proteinsSource left open.
Minerals, egg powder, soya oil, yeast products, fish oil
Psyllium husks and seedsSoluble fibre.
Fructo-oligosaccharides, yeastsPrebiotics, with the yeasts credited with manno-oligosaccharides and betaglucans.
Algal oil, marigold mealThe algal oil is the DHA source.

Taurine at 5 g per kilo with vitamins C and E, and trace minerals from iron at 42 mg to zinc at 136 mg, plus clinoptilolite at 10g as a technological additive.

The pack prints its own digestibility figures: protein sources at 63.3%, fat sources at 14.3%.

Named ingredients

Rice*, dehydrated poultry proteins*, animal fats, dehydrated pork proteins*, maize*, wheat gluten*, beet pulp, hydrolysed animal proteins*, minerals, egg powder*, soya oil, yeasts products, fish oil, psyllium husks and seeds, fructo-oligosaccharides, yeasts (source of manno-oligosaccharides and betaglucans), algal oil Schizochytrium sp. (source of DHA), marigold meal. Highly digestible ingredients: *Highly digestible protein sources: 63.3%, Highly digestible fat sources: 14.3%.

Against the range

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

423.5 kcal/100g

Protein

29%

Fat

22%

Fibre

1.2%

Ash

7.9%

Moisture

10%

Dry weight

Protein

32.2%

Fat

24.4%

Fibre

1.3%

Ash

8.8%

Carbs

33.3%

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

8.5%

Carbs

11.8%

Oils

16.2%

Other

63.5%

Pricing & size