Royal Canin Digestive Care

Name: Royal Canin Digestive Care
Brand: Royal Canin

CatDrycomplete and balanced nutrition for adult catsformulated to help support healthy digestion

Confidence A

The Universal score is pet-agnostic. Fit reads the same label against one pet.

Top findings

-30No taurine in the ingredient list or guarantee (cat food) ACVN — taurine essentiality in cats
-10Unnamed fish ingredient ("fish oil") — fish oil WSAVA Global Nutrition Committee — Selecting a pet food
+10Calorie content published on the label AAFCO Dog & Cat Food Nutrient Profiles (2016)

Why this score

Every point traces to a published rule with its source — nothing hand-adjusted, nothing sponsored.

Nutritional adequacystarted at 100, landed at 70

-30No taurine in the ingredient list or guarantee (cat food) ACVN — taurine essentiality in cats

Ingredient qualitystarted at 60, landed at 52

-10Unnamed fish ingredient ("fish oil") — fish oil WSAVA Global Nutrition Committee — Selecting a pet food
+21 whole fruits/veg/omega sources in the top 12 — chicory root WSAVA Global Nutrition Committee — Selecting a pet food

Additives & processingstarted at 100, landed at 100

+5Natural preservation system — one bonus for the class — rosemary extract, mixed tocopherols ACVN — preservative systems in pet food

Transparencystarted at 50, landed at 60

+10Calorie content published on the label AAFCO Dog & Cat Food Nutrient Profiles (2016)

ℹ By-products can be nutritious — the transparency issue is unnamed sourcing

Weighted total: 69 · Capped at 35 — a critical flag keeps this out of the mid bands

Scored alternatives

Ranked purely by score — same species, same form. Nothing here is sponsored.

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Ingredients, as printed

Ranked exactly as the label lists them — heaviest first.

1Brewers rice
2chicken by-product meal
3wheat gluten
4soy protein isolate
5chicken fat
6corn gluten meal
7natural flavors
8pea fiber
9wheat
10corn
11dried chicory root
12calcium sulfate
13fish oil
14vegetable oil
15sodium aluminosilicate
16sodium pyrophosphate
17potassium chloride
18choline chloride
19powdered psyllium seed husk
20sodium bisulfate
21monocalcium phosphate
22rice flour
23fructooligosaccharides
24salt
25hydrolyzed yeast
26vitamins [DL-alpha tocopherol acetate (source of vitamin E), L-ascorbyl-2-polyphosphate (source of vitamin C), niacin supplement, biotin, riboflavin supplement, D-calcium pantothenate, pyridoxine hydrochloride (vitamin B6), thiamine mononitrate (vitamin B1), vitamin A acetate, vitamin B12 supplement, vitamin D3 supplement, folic acid]
27trace minerals [zinc proteinate, zinc oxide, manganese proteinate, ferrous sulfate, manganous oxide, copper sulfate, sodium selenite, calcium iodate, copper proteinate]
28rosemary extract
29preserved with mixed tocopherols and citric acid

Guaranteed analysis

Nutrient	As fed	Dry matter
Crude protein	36%	38.9%
Crude fat	13%	14.1%
Crude fiber	4.8%	5.2%
Moisture	7.5%	—

Nutritional adequacy

Formulated to meet AAFCO nutrient profiles for adult maintenance.

3659 kcal/kg metabolizable energy, as published.

Barcode 0030111444202

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Bowlmark score for Royal Canin Digestive Care: 35 — Poor

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