Royal Canin

Royal Canin Yorkshire Terrier Puppy review

Name: Royal Canin Yorkshire Terrier Puppy
Brand: Royal Canin

43/100Average

DryPuppy

A growth kibble drawn up for one small breed, built rich for a little dog with a quick metabolism. Protein is declared at 29.0% and fat at 20.0%. Naming is where it gives least away, and plenty of Yorkies still do well on it.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Yorkshire terrier puppies, the one breed it was drawn up around
Small pups with a quick burn. It holds 408 kcal per 100g against a typical 376
Owners who like the micronutrient panel spelled out, vitamin E down to selenium
Gut support printed on the pack, with fructo-oligo-saccharides at 0.34%
A coat looked after from the start: borage oil at 0.1% and biotin at 3 mg per kg

Worth watching

Poultry with no bird named, so a pup reacting to chicken or turkey cannot be kept clear
Unnamed animal fats and hydrolysed animal proteins, which count on a strict exclusion diet
Soya oil, a soya isolate and fish oil all in the bowl
No calcium on the label, the number most worth knowing on any growth food

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

How this scores

How we score

43/100Average

Protein and processingAverage

Nutritional balanceGood

TransparencyPoor

ValueAverage

The details

Dog fit

Listed for small-breed puppies, Yorkshire terriers above all. Feed to the weight and age chart on the pack, since a puppy's daily amount keeps moving.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Puppy

Breed size

Small

Main protein

Poultry

The score, in context

Royal Canin Yorkshire Terrier Puppy 43.0

All one Average. Typical dry food: Good.

This comes down to print more than substance: the label declines to name its animals or give moisture and calcium.

What's in it

Dehydrated poultry proteinWater already gone, so it carries through to the kibble. Poultry can mean any domestic fowl, and the mix can move batch to batch.
Rice, maize flourA grain-led starch base doing an ordinary amount of work.
Animal fatsNo species named.
Vegetable protein isolateA top-up to the analysis, and a soya entry in the allergen picture.
Beet pulpGentle, well tolerated fibre.
Hydrolysed animal proteinsNo animal named.
Minerals
Soya oil, fish oilFish oil carries the long chain omega 3s a growing brain and coat need.
Yeasts, fructo-oligo-saccharides, hydrolysed yeast, yeast extracts0.34% FOSFood for the gut's useful bacteria, with betaglucans on the immune side.
Borage oil, marigold extract0.1% borage

Vitamins A, D3 and E with biotin and a full trace mineral set; clinoptilolite is a technological additive and yucca extract is there for stool odour.

No moisture figure, so the dry matter column works from our assumed 8% for a kibble.

Named ingredients

Dehydrated poultry protein, rice, maize flour, animal fats, vegetable protein isolate*, beet pulp, hydrolysed animal proteins, minerals, soya oil, fish oil, yeasts and parts thereof, fructo-oligo-saccharides (0.34%), hydrolysed yeast (source of manno-oligo-saccharides), borage oil (0.1%), yeasts extracts (source of betaglucans), marigold extract (source of lutein).

Against the range

Dehydrated poultry protein leads, with rice and maize flour behind it, so the starch base is grain led. The animal entries arrive as categories: poultry with no bird named, animal fats and hydrolysed animal proteins with no animal named. The tail carries prebiotics, borage oil and a marigold source of lutein, and the panel stops before moisture and calcium.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

408.3 kcal/100g

Protein

29%

Fat

20%

Fibre

1.3%

Ash

7.7%

Dry weight

Protein

31.5%

Fat

21.7%

Fibre

1.4%

Ash

8.4%

Carbs

37%

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

41.6%

Carbs

46%

Veg

4.1%

Oils

6.4%

Other

1.9%

Pricing & size