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Royal Canin Veterinary Diet Adult Gastrointestinal Moderate Calorie Dry Dog Food, 22-lb bag
Royal Canin Veterinary Diet

Adult Gastrointestinal Moderate Calorie Dry Dog Food, 22-lb bag

Evidence Fair
AAFCO compliance inferred from product name
dry $5.95/lb

Royal Canin Veterinary Diet Adult Gastrointestinal Moderate Calorie Dry Dog Food, 22-lb bag earns a Sniff Score of 59/100 (C) with Fair evidence. Zero controversial ingredients flagged. Primary concern: plant-protein-dominated formula. brewers rice flour as the #1 ingredient..

Graded by The Sniff System

Why this score

Quality carbohydrate sources with fermentable fiber.

CQI

Quality fat sources: named fat with marine oil (EPA and DHA source).

FQI

Includes egg, named fish, or organ meat for diverse high-bioavailability protein.

STACK

Plant-protein-dominated formula. brewers rice flour as the #1 ingredient.

PQI

Controversial ingredients · 1

  • sodium selenite
    Synthetic selenium source. Selenium is essential, but sodium selenite has a narrower safety margin than organic alternatives like selenium yeast. Better-formulated foods use the organic form.

Every flagged ingredient has a published basis (confirmed harm / regulatory action / precautionary). See methodology →

Guaranteed analysis
Protein
21%
min
Fat
9%
min
Fiber
4%
max
Moisture
10.5%
max
Ingredients
35 total
  1. 1 brewers rice flour
  2. 2 chicken by-product meal
  3. 3 corn
  4. 4 brewers rice
  5. 5 natural flavors
  6. 6 chicken fat
  7. 7 egg product
  8. 8 dried plain beet pulp
  9. 9 powdered cellulose
  10. 10 vegetable oil
  11. 11 monocalcium phosphate
  12. 12 fish oil
  13. 13 potassium chloride
  14. 14 salt
  15. 15 calcium carbonate
  16. 16 powdered psyllium seed husk
  17. 17 sodium aluminosilicate
  18. 18 fructooligosaccharides
  19. 19 choline chloride
  20. 20 marine microalgae oil
  21. 21 hydrolyzed yeast
  22. 22 dl-methionine
  23. 23 zinc proteinate
  24. 24 zinc oxide
  25. 25 ferrous sulfate

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