Royal Canin Mini Light Weight Care

Name: Royal Canin Mini Light Weight Care
Brand: Royal Canin

DryCompleteAdultContains grainFish oil

WeakTied 797th of 1,171 dry foods

89% of dry foods score under 45.

Score v6.1.0 · label checked 27 Sep 2026

No ingredient deductions

Meat amount not given
Meat not named by animal
Added plant protein, starch or fibre

First ingredients: Dehydrated poultry protein, maize, vegetable fibres, barley, rice… All ingredients

Ingredients match the maker’s own page

Meat: Not on label
Protein, dry weight: 33%
Carbs, dry weight: ~39%
kcal/100 g: 322

Ingredients

Listed first: Dehydrated poultry protein. The label gives no meat figure.

Dehydrated poultry protein, maize, vegetable fibres, barley, rice, wheat gluten*, maize gluten, hydrolysed animal proteins, animal fat, beet pulp, maize flour, powdered cellulose, fish oil, psyllium (husks and seeds), yeast products, minerals, soya oil, fructo-oligosaccharides, sodium butyrate, borage oil, glucosamine from fermentation, marigold flour, hydrolyzed cartilage (source of chondroitin). *L.I.P.: Proteins selected for its very high digestibility

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Meat animal not namedGrain cereals

Additives

per kg: Nutritional additives: Vitamin A (22,000 IU), Vitamin D3 (1,000 IU), E1 [iron] (35mg), E2 [iodine] (3.5mg), E4 [copper] (11mg), E5 [manganese] (45mg), E6 [zinc] (134mg), E8 [selenium] (0.04mg), L-carnitine (200mg). Preservatives, antioxidants.

How we read this label

First ingredient: “Dehydrated poultry protein”. It isn’t a named meat or fish.

Each ingredient on the label, how we read it, and the share the label gives
On the label	We read it as	Share on the label
Dehydrated poultry protein	Meat, animal not named	Not given
maize	Grain	Not given
vegetable fibres	Vegetable, fruit or plant	Not given
barley	Grain	Not given
rice	Grain	Not given
wheat gluten*	Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient	Not given
maize gluten	Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient	Not given
hydrolysed animal proteins	Other	Not given
animal fat	Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient	Not given
beet pulp	Vegetable, fruit or plant	Not given
maize flour	Grain	Not given
powdered cellulose	Vegetable, fruit or plant	Not given
fish oil	Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient	Not given
psyllium (husks and seeds)	Vegetable, fruit or plant	Not given
yeast products	Other	Not given
minerals	Other	Not given
soya oil	Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient	Not given
fructo-oligosaccharides	Other	Not given
sodium butyrate	Other	Not given
borage oil	Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient	Not given

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Nutrition

Protein 33% and carbs about 39%, with the water taken out.

Make-upwater is 10% (assumed), left out

Analysis as sold and with the water taken out
Nutrient	As sold	Dry weight
Protein	30%	33%
above the usual 26 to 32% for dry foods
Fat	11%	12%
Carbohydrate	~35%	~39%
within the usual 39 to 50% for dry foods
Fibre	8.6%	9.6%
Ash	5%	5.6%
Moisturenot on label, 10% assumed	10%	taken out

Carbohydrate is our estimate: what is left after the other shares. The usual range is the middle half of the dry foods we rate.

Energy322 kcal/100 gCalculated from the analysis.

Why it scores 24

Starch scored best (6.9 of 20). The kind of meat scored lowest (2.3 of 15).

How much meat?
11 / 45 points
- Meat on the label8.8 / 35 points
  Meat is listed without saying which animal, and the label doesn’t say how much, so a quarter of the points.
- Protein level2.2 / 10 points
  Protein is 33.3% of the food with the water taken out. Nothing at 20% or less, full marks at 80%.
How much starch?
6.9 / 20 points
Estimated carbohydrate: About 39.3% carbohydrate with the water taken out (our estimate). Full marks with no carbohydrate, none at 60% or more.
How processed?
4 / 20 points
How it’s made: Extruded kibble: 6 of 20. Minus 2 for added plant protein, starch or fibre and hydrolysed protein.
What kind of meat?
2.3 / 15 points
- How the meat is listed2.3 / 12 points
  The label lists the meat as unnamed meal and unnamed hydrolysed, which earns 19% of these points. Fresh or raw named meat earns all of them, dried 70%, meal half, hydrolysed a quarter, an unnamed category none.
- Organ meat0 / 3 points
  No organ meat named.

No ingredient deductions.

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Each bar is as long as the points it is worth, out of 100 in all.

Against other dry foods

Tied 797th of 1,171 dry foods. 50 foods share this score. Each bar counts the ranked dry foods in a 5-point step of score.

What the score means

One scale for every food: meat (45 points), starch (20), how it’s made (20) and kind of meat (15), minus points for a few listed ingredients. It rates the recipe, not your dog.

75 and over is excellent, 60 to 74 good, 45 to 59 fair and under 45 weak.

How we rate foods →

Less starch in the bowl

Half and half by calories with Happy Dog Pure Goat Dog Food (Sardinia) (scores 83): carbs fall from 39% to 26% by dry weight, and protein is about 43%.

Worked out from both labels, for half the day’s calories from each food. The feeding guides on the packs still set the amounts.

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Ingredient notes

1 noted: hydrolysed proteins. 30 flagged nothing.

1 noted
30 nothing flagged
1 not in our ingredient database yet

Hydrolysed proteinsCounted in “How processed?”
Feed material (protein source)
A protein broken down by processing, often used in sensitive-stomach foods. It costs a point under “How processed?” rather than as a deduction.
Sources
- Reg (EU) No 68/2013 - EU Catalogue of Feed Materials (EUR-Lex)
- FEDIAF Nutritional Guidelines for Complete and Complementary Pet Food for Cats and Dogs (2025)

30 ingredients with nothing flagged

Animal fats, antioxidants, barley, beet pulp, borage oil, cellulose, fish oil, fructo-oligosaccharides (FOS), glucosamine, l-carnitine, maize (corn), maize (corn) gluten, marigold meal, minerals, poultry, preservatives, psyllium, rice, soya oil, vegetable fibres, wheat gluten, yeast

Allowed up to a legal maximum, none declared above it: copper, iodine, iron, manganese, selenium, vitamin A (retinyl acetate), vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol), zinc

Checked against the EU Catalogue of Feed Materials and FEDIAF guidelines.

Sources for these ingredients