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Royal Canin X-Small Ageing 12+ Dry Senior Dog Food
DryCompleteSeniorContains grainFish oil
Worth knowing
- Sodium tripolyphosphate: −5 points
- Meat amount not given
- About 48% carbs (dry weight)
First ingredients: Rice, wheat flour, dehydrated poultry proteins, maize flour, animal fats… All ingredients
Label checked- Meat
- Not on label
- Protein, dry weight
- 27%
- Carbs, dry weight
- ~48%
- kcal/100 g
- 372
Ingredients
Listed first: Rice. The label gives no meat figure.
Rice, wheat flour, dehydrated poultry proteins, maize flour, animal fats, wheat, maize gluten, wheat gluten, hydrolysed animal proteins, chicory pulp, minerals (including pentasodium triphosphate (0.35%)), fish oil, psyllium husks and seeds, soya oil, yeasts products, fructo-oligosaccharides, algal oil Schizochytrium sp (source of EPA and DHA), yeasts (source of manno-oligosaccharides), marigold meal
Meat animal not namedGrain cereals
Additives
Nutritional Additives: ADDITIVES (per kg): Nutritional Additives: Vitamin A: 20300 IU, Vitamin D3: 900 IU, Vitamin C: 400 mg, Iron (3b103): 38 mg, Iodine (3b201, 3b202): 3.8 mg, Copper (3b405, 3b406): 12 mg, Manganese (3b502, 3b504): 50 mg, Zinc (3b603, 3b605, 3b606): 137 mg, Selenium (3b801, 3b811, 3b812): 0.06 mg - Preservatives - Antioxidants; Trace Elements: None stated
How we read this label
First ingredient: “Rice”. It isn’t a named meat or fish.
| On the label | We read it as | Share on the label |
|---|---|---|
| Rice | Grain | Not given |
| wheat flour | Grain | Not given |
| dehydrated poultry proteins | Meat, animal not named | Not given |
| maize flour | Grain | Not given |
| animal fats | Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient | Not given |
| wheat | Grain | Not given |
| maize gluten | Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient | Not given |
| wheat gluten | Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient | Not given |
| hydrolysed animal proteins | Other | Not given |
| chicory pulp | Vegetable, fruit or plant | Not given |
| minerals (including pentasodium triphosphate (0.35%)) | Other | 0.3% |
| fish oil | Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient | Not given |
| psyllium husks and seeds | Vegetable, fruit or plant | Not given |
| soya oil | Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient | Not given |
| yeasts products | Other | Not given |
| fructo-oligosaccharides | Other | Not given |
| algal oil Schizochytrium sp (source of EPA and DHA) | Other | Not given |
| yeasts (source of manno-oligosaccharides) | Other | Not given |
| marigold meal | Other | Not given |
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Nutrition
Protein 27% and carbs about 48%, with the water taken out.
| Nutrient | As sold | Dry weight |
|---|---|---|
| Protein | 24% | 27% |
| within the usual 26 to 32% for dry foods | ||
| Fat | 16% | 18% |
| Carbohydrate | ~43% | ~48% |
| within the usual 39 to 50% for dry foods | ||
| Fibre | 1.7% | 1.9% |
| 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.
Energy372 kcal/100 gCalculated from the analysis.
Why it scores 15
Meat scored best (9.9 of 45). The kind of meat scored lowest (2.2 of 15).
How much meat?
9.9 / 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 level1.1 / 10 points
Protein is 26.7% of the food with the water taken out. Nothing at 20% or less, full marks at 80%.
How much starch?
3.9 / 20 pointsEstimated carbohydrate: About 48.3% 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?
2.2 / 15 points- How the meat is listed2.2 / 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.
Points lost for ingredients: Sodium tripolyphosphate (−5).
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 Animonda GranCarno Original Senior (scores 69): carbs fall from 48% to 29% by dry weight, and protein is about 35%.
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 ingredient costs 5 points: sodium tripolyphosphate. 1 more noted. 27 flagged nothing.
- 1 costs points
- 1 noted
- 27 nothing flagged
- Sodium tripolyphosphateCosts 5 points
Why it costs points
An added phosphate. In dog trials, easily absorbed phosphates raised hormone levels linked to kidney strain; the trials used high doses and long-term harm isn't shown.
- 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
Algal oil, animal fats, antioxidants, chicory root extract, fish oil, fructo-oligosaccharides (FOS), maize (corn), maize (corn) gluten, marigold meal, minerals, poultry, preservatives, psyllium, rice, soya oil, vitamin C (ascorbic acid), wheat, wheat gluten, yeast
Allowed up to a legal maximum, none declared above it: 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)Algal oil, animal fats, antioxidants, chicory root extract, fish oil, fructo-oligosaccharides (FOS), maize (corn), marigold meal, minerals, poultry, preservatives, psyllium, rice, soya oil, wheat, yeast
- FEDIAF Nutritional Guidelines for Complete and Complementary Pet Food for Cats and Dogs (2025)Algal oil, antioxidants, chicory root extract, fructo-oligosaccharides (FOS), marigold meal, poultry, preservatives, psyllium, soya oil, yeast, manganese, selenium, vitamin A (retinyl acetate), zinc
- Reg (EU) 68/2013 Catalogue of feed materials, Part C (legislation.gov.uk)Maize (corn) gluten, wheat gluten
- 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
- 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: Pets at Home. Checked 4 Oct 2026. Up 18% since 10 Aug.
In stock first, cheapest per kg first, excluding deliveryExcluding delivery
| Shop | Pack | Price | Per kg | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pets at Home1.5kg · £11.49 up 18% since 10 Aug | 1.5kg | £11.49 | £7.66/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 | 1.5kg | £11.49 | £7.66/kg |
| 27 Sep 2026 | Pets at Home | 1.5kg | £10.34 | £6.89/kg |
| 10 Aug 2026 | Pets at Home | 1.5kg | £9.77 | £6.51/kg |
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Alternatives
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- Carbs
- about 24% this food about 48%
- To feed
- 5% more per 1,000 kcal
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78% meatDry · All ages
Good£5.03/kg
- Carbs
- about 8% this food about 48%
- To feed
- 40% less per 1,000 kcal
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- To feed
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- about 41% this food about 48%
- To feed
- 39% less per 1,000 kcal
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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: Pets at Home.
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