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Royal Canin Veterinary Diet Renal Cans 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.

Renal is the kidney diet in Royal Canin's Veterinary Diet range. The canned loaf is built on poultry and pork by-products with the protein level held low, for dogs whose kidney disease a vet is managing.

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Renal is the kidney diet in Royal Canin's Veterinary Diet range, a canned loaf for dogs whose kidney disease a vet is managing. We do not put a score on it. Protein is held low by design, at 15.9% of the dry matter, with rice and maize flour carrying the energy instead.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Dogs with kidney disease whose vet has recommended this diet
Owners who want the protein restriction in plain figures: 5.4% in the tin, 15.9% dry matter
A denser loaf than most tins, with moisture at 66.0% and 168 kcal per 100g
Fat lifted to 26.5% of the dry matter, so the energy does not depend on protein

Worth watching

Phosphorus is not printed on the tin, so that figure has to come from your vet or Royal Canin
Poultry by-products name a category, never a bird
No daily table comes printed, and the portion is the vet's call

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

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adult and senior dogs. Before ordering, confirm with the vet managing the case that this is the diet and the portion they want.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult, Senior

Breed size

Small

Main protein

Poultry

What's in it

Poultry by-products15.6%The parts of the carcass left once the prime cuts have gone, organ meat included. No bird is named.
RiceSits between the two meats on the list.
Pork by-products13%
Maize flour, rice flourWith the rice, these do the work the protein is not being asked to do.
Sunflower oil refined
Minerals
Powdercellulose, dried beet pulpPurified plant fibre, with beet pulp behind it.
Fish oil
Fructo-oligosaccharides, marigold meal

Vitamin D3 at 430 IU per kilo, with iron, iodine, copper, manganese and zinc each dosed, plus clinoptilolite at 0.4 g as a technological additive.

Phosphorus, the figure kidney patients are usually told to watch, is not printed. Calcium reads 0.5%.

Named ingredients

Poultry by-products, rice, pork by-products, maize flour, sunflower oil refined, minerals, rice flour, powdercellulose, fish oil, dried beet pulp, fructo-oligosaccharides, marigold meal. Protein sources: poultry by-products (15.6%), pork by-products (13%).

Against the range

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

167.7 kcal/100g

Protein

5.4%

Fat

Fibre

Ash

1.7%

Moisture

66%

Dry weight

Protein

15.9%

Fat

26.5%

Fibre

2.9%

Ash

Carbs

49.7%

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

69.1%

Added water

Carbs

26%

Oils

2.2%

Other

1.7%

Pricing & size