Royal Canin

Royal Canin Veterinary Diet Satiety Weight Management Small Dogs 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.

Royal Canin puts this one out under its Veterinary Diet label as Satiety Weight Management for small dogs, a bulked up kibble the maker aims at little dogs losing weight to a vet's timetable.

DryAdultSenior

A Royal Canin veterinary diet for small dogs losing weight to a vet's timetable. The label pairs plenty of fibre, 15.6% as declared, with fat held to 9.5%. That is what a satiety recipe is drawn up to deliver, and your vet is the one to say whether it fits your dog.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Small dogs on a vet-led weight loss plan
A fibre side with several sources: vegetable fibres, chicory pulp with inulin, psyllium husks and seeds
Owners who like nutritional additives itemised per kilo

Worth watching

Poultry, animal proteins and animal fats with no species named, so a dog that reacts to one bird cannot be steered by the label
Wheat, wheat gluten, maize and maize gluten all on the list

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

The details

Dog fit

Listed for small adult and senior dogs. Feed to your vet's figure, ahead of any portion worked out from the energy value.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult, Senior

Breed size

Small

Main protein

Poultry

What's in it

Dehydrated poultry proteinA category, not a species.
Vegetable fibresBulk for fullness.
Wheat gluten, manioc (tapioca)
Hydrolysed animal proteinsNo animal named.
Chicory pulpBrings inulin, a fibre the gut bacteria use and the dog does not.
Wheat, maize, maize gluten
Animal fats, mineralsThe fat source is unspecified too.
Psyllium husks and seeds, fish oilPsyllium is the fibre that holds water.
Sodium butyrate, fructo-oligosaccharides, marigold mealButyrate is used where the gut lining is part of the picture.
Glucosamine from fermentation, hydrolysed cartilageJoint support with no figure on either.

Vitamins A and D3 with six trace minerals itemised per kilo, from zinc at 136 mg to selenium at 0.05 mg; preservatives and antioxidants are named only as groups.

Crude fibre is 17.0% of dry matter and fat 10.3%, by design. Follow your vet's portion.

Named ingredients

Dehydrated poultry protein, vegetable fibres, wheat gluten*, manioc (tapioca), hydrolysed animal proteins, chicory pulp, wheat, maize, maize gluten, animal fats, minerals, psyllium husks and seeds, fish oil, sodium butyrate, fructo-oligosaccharides, marigold meal, glucosamine from fermentation, hydrolysed cartilage (source of chondroitin).

Against the range

A single bulked-up kibble for small dogs losing weight on a vet's plan. Poultry protein leads, wheat gluten and vegetable fibres sit close behind, and fat is kept low.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

269 kcal/100g

Protein

30%

Fat

9.5%

Fibre

15.6%

Ash

6.8%

Dry weight

Protein

32.6%

Fat

10.3%

Fibre

17%

Ash

7.4%

Carbs

32.7%

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

49.5%

Carbs

24.3%

Veg

19.3%

Oils

0.6%

Other

6.4%

Pricing & size