Royal Canin Dog Food Medium Light Weight Care

DryCompleteAdultContains grainFish oil
23/ 100
WeakTied 847th of 1,171 dry foods

89% of dry foods score under 45.

Score v6.1.0 · label checked 10 Aug 2026

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.

Each ingredient on the label, how we read it, and the share the label gives
On the labelWe read it asShare on the label
Dehydrated poultry proteinMeat, animal not namedNot given
vegetable fibresVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
maizeGrainNot given
wheatGrainNot given
barleyGrainNot given
maize glutenFat, stock, extract or other processed ingredientNot given
hydrolysed animal proteinsOtherNot given
maize flourGrainNot given
animal fatsFat, stock, extract or other processed ingredientNot given
riceGrainNot given
beet pulpVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
cellulose powderVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
vegetable protein isolateVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
yeasts and parts thereofOtherNot given
fish oilFat, stock, extract or other processed ingredientNot given
mineralsOtherNot given
fructo-oligo-saccharidesOtherNot given
psyllium husks and seedsVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
soya oilFat, stock, extract or other processed ingredientNot given
hydrolysed yeast (source of manno-oligo-saccharides)OtherNot given

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Nutrition

Protein 30% and carbs about 39%, with the water taken out.

Analysis as sold and with the water taken out
NutrientAs soldDry weight
Protein27%30%
within the usual 26 to 32% for dry foods
Fat11%12%
Carbohydrate~35%~39%
within the usual 39 to 50% for dry foods
Fibre11.8%13%
Ash4.8%5.3%
Moisturenot on label, 10% assumed10%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.

Energy312 kcal/100 gCalculated from the analysis.

Why it scores 23

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

  1. 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%.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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

Tied 847th of 1,171 dry foods. 42 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 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
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

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.

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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.

Score method v6.1.0 · ingredient notes v2.4.0

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