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Royal Canin Mini Ageing 8+ Wet Dog Food In Loaf Can
WetCompleteSeniorContains grain
Good points
- Low starch, about 20% carbs
- No ingredient deductions
- High protein, 42% dry weight
Worth knowing
- Meat amount not declared
- Meat not named by animal
First ingredients: meat and animal derivatives, cereals, oils and fats, derivatives of vegetable origin, minerals… All ingredients
Ingredients match the maker’s own page- Meat
- Not on label
- Protein, dry weight
- 42%
- Carbs, dry weight
- ~20%
- kcal/100 g
- 90
Ingredients
Listed first: “Meat and animal derivatives”. The label gives no meat figure.
COMPOSITION: meat and animal derivatives, cereals, oils and fats, derivatives of vegetable origin, minerals, yeasts.
Meat animal not namedGrain cereals
Additives
ADDITIVES (per kg): Nutritional additives: Vitamin D3: 170 IU, Vitamin C: 70 mg, Iron (3b103): 9 mg, Iodine (3b202): 0.24 mg, Copper (3b405, 3b406): 1.9 mg, Manganese (3b502, 3b503, 3b504): 2.7 mg, Zinc (3b603, 3b605, 3b606): 27 mg - Technological additives: Clinoptilolite of sedimentary origin: 2 g.
How we read this label
First ingredient: “meat and animal derivatives”. It isn’t a named meat or fish.
| On the label | We read it as | Share on the label |
|---|---|---|
| meat and animal derivatives | A group name, not one ingredient | Not given |
| cereals | Vegetable, fruit or plant | Not given |
| oils and fats | Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient | Not given |
| derivatives of vegetable origin | A group name, not one ingredient | Not given |
| minerals | Other | Not given |
| yeasts. | Other | Not given |
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Nutrition
Protein 42% and carbs about 20%, with the water taken out.
| Nutrient | As sold | Dry weight |
|---|---|---|
| Protein | 8.4% | 42% |
| within the usual 38 to 48% for wet foods | ||
| Fat | 5.5% | 28% |
| Carbohydrate | ~4% | ~20% |
| within the usual 9 to 21% for wet foods | ||
| Fibre | 0.6% | 3% |
| Ash | 1.5% | 7.5% |
| Moisture | 80% | 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.
Energy90 kcal/100 gCalculated from the analysis.
Why it scores 25
Starch scored best (13.3 of 20). The kind of meat scored lowest (0 of 15).
How much meat?
3.7 / 45 points- Meat on the label0 / 35 points
No meat declared.
- Protein level3.7 / 10 points
Protein is 42% of the food with the water taken out. Nothing at 20% or less, full marks at 80%.
How much starch?
13.3 / 20 pointsEstimated carbohydrate: About 20% 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 derivatives, and derivatives of vegetable origin.
- 2 noted
- 12 nothing flagged
- 1 not in our ingredient database yet
- Meat and animal derivativesCounted 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.
12 ingredients with nothing flagged
Cereals, clinoptilolite, minerals, oils and fats, vitamin C (ascorbic acid), yeast
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, clinoptilolite, yeast, manganese, zinc
- Reg (EU) No 68/2013 - EU Catalogue of Feed Materials (EUR-Lex)Cereals, clinoptilolite, minerals, oils and fats, yeast
- 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
1 not in our ingredient database yet
Composition
Not in our ingredient database yet, so no judgement either way.
Notes come from published sources about each ingredient, not about this food. How we decide
Prices
One shop we track sells this: Pets at Home. Checked 4 Oct 2026. Up 18% since 10 Aug.
In stock first, cheapest per kg first, excluding deliveryExcluding delivery
Sold in multipacks. Prices are for the whole pack.
| Shop | Pack | Price | Per kg | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pets at Home12 x 195g · £16.99 up 18% since 10 Aug | 12 x 195g | £16.99 | £7.26/kg | Visit |
Since 10 Aug (3 readings): Pets at Home up 18%.
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| Day | Shop | Pack | Price | Per kg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 Oct 2026 | Pets at Home | 12 x 195g | £16.99 | £7.26/kg |
| 27 Sep 2026 | Pets at Home | 12 x 195g | £15.29 | £6.53/kg |
| 10 Aug 2026 | Pets at Home | 12 x 195g | £14.44 | £6.17/kg |
Your dog
Cost per day and grams for your dog
Alternatives
4 wet foods score 41 to 44 points higher at the same price or less.
- Carbs
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- To feed
- 49% less per 1,000 kcal
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- about 11% this food about 20%
- To feed
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- about 9% this food about 20%
- To feed
- 59% less per 1,000 kcal
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- Carbs
- about 11% this food about 20%
- To feed
- 46% less per 1,000 kcal
+41 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 4 Oct 2026: Pets at Home.
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