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Royal Canin Sterilised Loaf
WetCompleteAdultContains grain
Good points
- Low starch, about 19% carbs
- No ingredient deductions
- High protein, 45% dry weight
Worth knowing
- Meat amount not declared
- Meat not named by animal
First ingredients: Meat and animal by-products, grains, vegetable by-products, minerals All ingredients
Label checked- Meat
- Not on label
- Protein, dry weight
- 45%
- Carbs, dry weight
- ~19%
- kcal/100 g
- 77
Ingredients
Listed first: “Meat and animal by-products”. The label gives no meat figure.
Meat and animal by-products, grains, vegetable by-products, minerals
Meat animal not namedGrain cereals
Additives
per kg: Nutritional additives: Vitamin D3 (170 IU), iron (3mg), iodine (0.26mg), copper (2.1mg), manganese (0.8mg), zinc (8mg).
How we read this label
First ingredient: “Meat and animal by-products”. It isn’t a named meat or fish.
| On the label | We read it as | Share on the label |
|---|---|---|
| Meat and animal by-products | A group name, not one ingredient | Not given |
| grains | Vegetable, fruit or plant | Not given |
| vegetable by-products | Vegetable, fruit or plant | Not given |
| minerals. | Other | Not given |
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Nutrition
Protein 45% and carbs about 19%, with the water taken out.
| Nutrient | As sold | Dry weight |
|---|---|---|
| Protein | 8.5% | 45% |
| within the usual 38 to 48% for wet foods | ||
| Fat | 4.1% | 22% |
| Carbohydrate | ~3.5% | ~19% |
| within the usual 9 to 21% for wet foods | ||
| Fibre | 1.2% | 6.3% |
| Ash | 1.6% | 8.5% |
| Moisture | 81.1% | taken out |
Carbohydrate is our estimate: what is left after the other shares. The usual range is the middle half of the wet foods we rate.
Energy77 kcal/100 gCalculated from the analysis.
Why it scores 26
Starch scored best (13.8 of 20). The kind of meat scored lowest (0 of 15).
How much meat?
4.2 / 45 points- Meat on the label0 / 35 points
No meat declared.
- Protein level4.2 / 10 points
Protein is 45% of the food with the water taken out. Nothing at 20% or less, full marks at 80%.
How much starch?
13.8 / 20 pointsEstimated carbohydrate: About 18.5% carbohydrate with the water taken out (our estimate). Full marks with no carbohydrate, none at 60% or more.
How processed?
8 / 20 pointsHow it’s made: Cooked in the tin, tray or pouch: 8 of 20.
What kind of meat?
0 / 15 points- How the meat is listed0 / 12 points
The label lists the meat as an unnamed category, which earns 0% 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.
Each bar is as long as the points it is worth, out of 100 in all.
Against other wet foods
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 →Ingredient notes
2 noted: meat and animal by-products, and derivatives of vegetable origin.
- 2 noted
- 8 nothing flagged
- Meat and animal by-productsCounted in “What kind of meat?”Feed material (declared category)
An unnamed category: the label doesn’t say which animal or plant parts are used. It costs points under “What kind of meat?” rather than as a deduction.
- Derivatives of vegetable originNoted, no points takenFeed material (declared category)
An unnamed category: the label doesn’t say which plant parts are used.
8 ingredients with nothing flagged
Cereals, minerals
Allowed up to a legal maximum, none declared above it: copper, iodine, iron, manganese, vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol), zinc
Checked against the EU Catalogue of Feed Materials and FEDIAF guidelines.
Sources for these ingredients
- FEDIAF Nutritional Guidelines for Complete and Complementary Pet Food for Cats and Dogs (2025)Cereals, manganese, zinc
- Reg (EU) No 68/2013 - EU Catalogue of Feed Materials (EUR-Lex)Cereals, minerals
- Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2016/1095 (EUR-Lex)Zinc
- Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/1490 (EUR-Lex)Manganese
- EFSA J 2013;11(2):3100 doi:10.2903/j.efsa.2013.3100Iodine
- FDA Animal Health Literacy - Vitamin D toxicity in dogsVitamin D3 (cholecalciferol)
- Fieten 2016 Int J Mol Sci 17(2):196 doi:10.3390/ijms17020196Copper
- Regulation (EU) 2015/861 (EUR-Lex)Iodine
- Regulation (EU) 2017/1492 (EUR-Lex)Vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol)
- Regulation (EU) 2018/1039 (EUR-Lex)Copper
Notes come from published sources about each ingredient, not about this food. How we decide
Prices
One shop we track sells this: Zooplus UK. Checked 4 Oct 2026.
In stock first, cheapest per kg first, excluding deliveryExcluding delivery
Sold in multipacks. Prices are for the whole pack.
Price has moved by less than 1% since 10 Aug (3 readings).
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| Day | Shop | Pack | Price | Per kg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 Oct 2026 | Zooplus UK | 12 x 85g | £11.99 | £11.75/kg |
| 4 Oct 2026 | Zooplus UK | Saver Pack: 24 x 85g | £22.59 | £11.07/kg |
| 27 Sep 2026 | Zooplus UK | 12 x 85g | £10.49 | £10.28/kg |
| 27 Sep 2026 | Zooplus UK | Saver Pack: 24 x 85g | £19.59 | £9.60/kg |
| 10 Aug 2026 | Zooplus UK | 12 x 85g | £12.09 | £11.85/kg |
| 10 Aug 2026 | Zooplus UK | Saver Pack: 24 x 85g | £22.79 | £11.17/kg |
Your dog
Cost per day and grams for your dog
Alternatives
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Carbs are a share of the dry food, with the water taken out.
Sources
Read from 1 shop, saved 4 Oct 2026.
Page we read, saved 4 Oct 2026: Zooplus UK.
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