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Royal Canin X-Small Dry Adult Dog Food
DryCompleteAdultContains grainFish oil
Worth knowing
- Sodium tripolyphosphate: −5 points
- Meat amount not given
- About 45% carbs (dry weight)
First ingredients: Dehydrated poultry proteins, rice, animal fats, wheat flour, wheat… All ingredients
Ingredients match the maker’s own page- Meat
- Not on label
- Protein, dry weight
- 27%
- Carbs, dry weight
- ~45%
- kcal/100 g
- 379
Ingredients
Listed first: Dehydrated poultry proteins. The label gives no meat figure.
Dehydrated poultry proteins, rice, animal fats, wheat flour, wheat, maize flour, maize gluten, wheat gluten, hydrolysed animal proteins, chicory pulp, minerals (including pentasodium triphosphate (0.35%)), psyllium husks and seeds, soya oil, yeasts products, fructo-oligosaccharides, fish oil, algal oil Schizochytrium sp (source of EPA and DHA)
Meat animal not namedGrain cereals
Additives
Nutritional Additives: Additives (per kg): Nutritional Additives: Vitamin A: 14200 IU, Vitamin D3: 900 IU, Vitamin C: 400 mg, Iron: 40 mg, Iodine: 4 mg, Copper: 12 mg, Manganese: 52 mg, Zinc: 138 mg, Selenium: 0.07 mg - Preservatives - Antioxidants; Trace Elements: None stated
How we read this label
First ingredient: “Dehydrated poultry proteins”. It isn’t a named meat or fish.
| On the label | We read it as | Share on the label |
|---|---|---|
| Dehydrated poultry proteins | Meat, animal not named | Not given |
| rice | Grain | Not given |
| animal fats | Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient | Not given |
| wheat flour | Grain | Not given |
| wheat | Grain | Not given |
| maize flour | 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% |
| 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 |
| fish oil | Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient | Not given |
| algal oil Schizochytrium sp (source of EPA and DHA) | Other | Not given |
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Nutrition
Protein 27% and carbs about 45%, with the water taken out.
| Nutrient | As sold | Dry weight |
|---|---|---|
| Protein | 24% | 27% |
| within the usual 26 to 32% for dry foods | ||
| Fat | 18% | 20% |
| Carbohydrate | ~41% | ~45% |
| within the usual 39 to 50% for dry foods | ||
| Fibre | 1.7% | 1.9% |
| Ash | 5.6% | 6.2% |
| 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.
Energy379 kcal/100 gCalculated from the analysis.
Why it scores 16
Starch scored best (4.9 of 20). 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?
4.9 / 20 pointsEstimated carbohydrate: About 45.2% 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 Happy Dog Pure Goat Dog Food (Sardinia) (scores 83): carbs fall from 45% to 28% 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
1 ingredient costs 5 points: sodium tripolyphosphate. 1 more noted. 26 flagged nothing.
- 1 costs points
- 1 noted
- 26 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.
26 ingredients with nothing flagged
Algal oil, animal fats, antioxidants, chicory root extract, fish oil, fructo-oligosaccharides (FOS), maize (corn), maize (corn) gluten, 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), 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), 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
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- To feed
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- To feed
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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 4 Oct 2026: Pets at Home.
Score method v6.1.0 · ingredient notes v2.4.0
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