Royal Canin Puppy Medium Dry Dog Food
DryCompletePuppyContains grainFish oil
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, animal fats, maize, vegetable protein iso-late, beet pulp… All ingredients
Ingredients match the maker’s own page- Meat
- Not on label
- Protein, dry weight
- 36%
- Carbs, dry weight
- ~32%
- kcal/100 g
- 382
Ingredients
Listed first: Dehydrated poultry protein. The label gives no meat figure.
dehydrated poultry protein, animal fats, maize, vegetable protein iso-late, beet pulp, maize gluten, rice, wheat flour, hydrolysed animal proteins, wheat, maize flour, minerals, fish oil, soya oil, yeasts and parts thereof, fructo-oligo-saccharides, hydrolysed yeast (source of manno-oligo-saccharides), yeast extracts (source of betaglucans), marigold extract (source of lutein)
Meat animal not namedGrain cereals
Additives
Vita-min A, Vitamin D3, Vitamin E, E1 (Iron), E2 (Iodine), E4 (Copper), E5 (Manganese), E6 (Zinc), E8 (Selenium), Clinoptilolite of sedimentary origin, Yucca extract
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 |
| animal fats | Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient | Not given |
| maize | Grain | Not given |
| vegetable protein iso-late | Vegetable, fruit or plant | Not given |
| beet pulp | Vegetable, fruit or plant | Not given |
| maize gluten | Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient | Not given |
| rice | Grain | Not given |
| wheat flour | Grain | Not given |
| hydrolysed animal proteins | Other | Not given |
| wheat | Grain | Not given |
| maize flour | Grain | Not given |
| minerals | Other | Not given |
| fish oil | Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient | Not given |
| soya oil | Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient | Not given |
| yeasts and parts thereof | Other | Not given |
| fructo-oligo-saccharides | Other | Not given |
| hydrolysed yeast (source of manno-oligo-saccharides) | Other | Not given |
| yeast extracts (source of betaglucans) | Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient | Not given |
| marigold extract (source of lutein) | Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient | Not given |
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Nutrition
Protein 36% and carbs about 32%, with the water taken out.
| Nutrient | As sold | Dry weight |
|---|---|---|
| Protein | 32% | 36% |
| above the usual 26 to 32% for dry foods | ||
| Fat | 20% | 22% |
| Carbohydrate | ~29% | ~32% |
| below the usual 39 to 50% for dry foods | ||
| Fibre | 1.6% | 1.8% |
| Ash | 7.9% | 8.8% |
| 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.
Energy382 kcal/100 gCalculated from the analysis.
Why it scores 27
Starch scored best (9.4 of 20). The kind of meat scored lowest (2.3 of 15).
How much meat?
11.4 / 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 level2.6 / 10 points
Protein is 35.6% of the food with the water taken out. Nothing at 20% or less, full marks at 80%.
How much starch?
9.4 / 20 pointsEstimated carbohydrate: About 31.7% 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 Forthglade Puppy Chicken & Liver Wet Dog Food (scores 73): carbs fall from 32% to 17% by dry weight, and protein is about 40%.
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
2 noted: hydrolysed proteins and yucca extract. 24 flagged nothing.
- 2 noted
- 24 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.
- Yucca extractNoted, no points takenFeed material (flavouring)
Why it’s noted and sources
Added to reduce stool odour. The ASPCA lists the yucca plant as toxic to dogs, and in a dog study the extract raised a liver enzyme at 750 mg/kg of food, though not at 500. Labels rarely give the amount. We note it, but take no points off.
24 ingredients with nothing flagged
Animal fats, beet pulp, clinoptilolite, fish oil, fructo-oligosaccharides (FOS), maize (corn), maize (corn) gluten, marigold meal, minerals, poultry, rice, soya oil, tocopherols (vitamin E), 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, beet pulp, clinoptilolite, fish oil, fructo-oligosaccharides (FOS), maize (corn), marigold meal, minerals, poultry, rice, soya oil, vegetable protein extracts, wheat, yeast
- FEDIAF Nutritional Guidelines for Complete and Complementary Pet Food for Cats and Dogs (2025)Clinoptilolite, fructo-oligosaccharides (FOS), marigold meal, poultry, soya oil, vegetable protein extracts, yeast, manganese, selenium, zinc
- Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/1152Tocopherols (vitamin E)
- 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
1 not in our ingredient database yet
Vita-min a
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
Your dog
Grams a day for your dog
Alternatives
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Nourish Pet Food 80/20 Grain Free Salmon with Herring, Haddock, Trout & Sweet Potato Dry Dog Food
78% meatDry · All ages
Good£5.03/kg
- Carbs
- about 8% this food about 32%
+33 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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