
Royal Canin Dog Food Medium Light Weight Care
Good points
- No ingredient deductions
Worth knowing
- Meat amount not given
- Meat not named by animal
- Added plant protein, starch or fibre
First ingredients: Dehydrated poultry protein, vegetable fibres, maize, wheat, barley… All ingredients
Ingredients match the maker’s own page- Meat
- Not on label
- Protein, dry weight
- 30%
- Carbs, dry weight
- ~39%
- kcal/100 g
- 312
Ingredients
Listed first: Dehydrated poultry protein. The label gives no meat figure.
Dehydrated poultry protein, vegetable fibres, maize, wheat, barley, maize gluten, hydrolysed animal proteins, maize flour, animal fats, rice, beet pulp, cellulose powder, vegetable protein isolate, yeasts and parts thereof, fish oil, minerals, fructo-oligo-saccharides, psyllium husks and seeds, soya oil, hydrolysed yeast (source of manno-oligo-saccharides), hydrolysed crustaceans (source of glucosamine), marigold extract (source of lutein), hydrolysed cartilage (source of chondroitin)
Meat animal not namedGrain cereals
Additives
Vitamin A, Vitamin D3, Iron (3b103), Iodine (3b201, 3b202), Copper (3b405, 3b406), Manganese (3b502, 3b504), Zinc (3b603, 3b605, 3b606), Selenium (3b801, 3b811, 3b812), L-carnitine
How we read this label
First ingredient: “Dehydrated poultry protein”. It isn’t a named meat or fish.
| On the label | We read it as | Share on the label |
|---|---|---|
| Dehydrated poultry protein | Meat, animal not named | Not given |
| vegetable fibres | Vegetable, fruit or plant | Not given |
| maize | Grain | Not given |
| wheat | Grain | Not given |
| barley | Grain | Not given |
| maize gluten | Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient | Not given |
| hydrolysed animal proteins | Other | Not given |
| maize flour | Grain | Not given |
| animal fats | Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient | Not given |
| rice | Grain | Not given |
| beet pulp | Vegetable, fruit or plant | Not given |
| cellulose powder | Vegetable, fruit or plant | Not given |
| vegetable protein isolate | Vegetable, fruit or plant | Not given |
| yeasts and parts thereof | Other | Not given |
| fish oil | Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient | Not given |
| minerals | Other | Not given |
| fructo-oligo-saccharides | Other | Not given |
| psyllium husks and seeds | Vegetable, fruit or plant | Not given |
| soya oil | Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient | Not given |
| hydrolysed yeast (source of manno-oligo-saccharides) | Other | Not given |
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Nutrition
Protein 30% and carbs about 39%, with the water taken out.
| Nutrient | As sold | Dry weight |
|---|---|---|
| Protein | 27% | 30% |
| within the usual 26 to 32% for dry foods | ||
| Fat | 11% | 12% |
| Carbohydrate | ~35% | ~39% |
| within the usual 39 to 50% for dry foods | ||
| Fibre | 11.8% | 13% |
| Ash | 4.8% | 5.3% |
| 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.
Why it scores 23
Starch scored best (6.9 of 20). The kind of meat scored lowest (2.3 of 15).
How much meat?
10.5 / 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 level1.7 / 10 points
Protein is 30% of the food with the water taken out. Nothing at 20% or less, full marks at 80%.
How much starch?
6.9 / 20 pointsEstimated 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 pointsHow 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.
Each bar is as long as the points it is worth, out of 100 in all.
Against other dry 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 →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 41%.
Worked out from both labels, for half the day’s calories from each food. The feeding guides on the packs still set the amounts.
Best wet foods →Ingredient notes
1 noted: hydrolysed proteins. 27 flagged nothing.
- 1 noted
- 27 nothing flagged
- 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.
27 ingredients with nothing flagged
Animal fats, barley, beet pulp, cellulose, fish oil, fructo-oligosaccharides (FOS), l-carnitine, maize (corn), maize (corn) gluten, marigold meal, minerals, poultry, psyllium, rice, soya oil, vegetable fibres, vegetable protein extracts, wheat, yeast
We couldn’t read an amount we can check on the label, so no points were taken: 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
- Reg (EU) No 68/2013 - EU Catalogue of Feed Materials (EUR-Lex)Animal fats, barley, beet pulp, cellulose, fish oil, fructo-oligosaccharides (FOS), maize (corn), marigold meal, minerals, poultry, psyllium, rice, soya oil, vegetable fibres, vegetable protein extracts, wheat, yeast
- FEDIAF Nutritional Guidelines for Complete and Complementary Pet Food for Cats and Dogs (2025)Barley, cellulose, fructo-oligosaccharides (FOS), l-carnitine, marigold meal, poultry, psyllium, soya oil, vegetable fibres, vegetable protein extracts, yeast, manganese, selenium, vitamin A (retinyl acetate), zinc
- Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2016/1095 (EUR-Lex)Zinc
- Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/1490 (EUR-Lex)Manganese
- Directive 2002/32/EC Annex I (as amended) (EUR-Lex)Selenium
- 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
- Reg (EU) 68/2013 Catalogue of feed materials, Part C (legislation.gov.uk)Maize (corn) gluten
- 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
Your dog
Grams a day for your dog
Alternatives
4 dry foods score 36 to 55 points higher.

+55 pointsCompare

- Carbs
- about 22% this food about 39%
+40 pointsCompare

- Carbs
- about 8% this food about 39%
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- Carbs
- about 33% this food about 39%
+36 pointsCompare
Carbs are a share of the dry food, with the water taken out.
Sources
Matches the maker’s own page.
Checked against the maker. The ingredient list matches the one on the manufacturer’s own product page.
Page we read, saved 10 Aug 2026: Jollyes.
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