Royal Canin Veterinary Gastrointestinal Puppy Dry Dog Food
Top 4 ingredients of Royal Canin Veterinary Gastrointestinal Puppy Dry Dog Food are Brewers Rice, Chicken By-Product Meal, Chicken Fat, and Corn Gluten Meal.
Royal Canin Veterinary Gastrointestinal Puppy Dry Dog Food Ingredients
Brewers Rice is no different from white rice, except that the grain is broken into pieces. As such, it offers the same nutritional value as white rice with trace amounts of Iron, Vitamin B6, Magnesium and Calcium and Potassium.
Brewers rice is often used as an inexpensive filler ingredient to add volume to dog food and also it increases digestibility
Chicken By-Product Meal is rendered mix of less desirable parts (eg. gizzards, giblets, feet), internal organs (eg. lungs, spleen, liver, heart, kidneys) and bones of a chicken.
Chicken by-products are protein rich like chicken and also it's a natural source of Chondroitin Sulfate and Glucosamine. However, it's an already processed material in dog food manufacturing and makes the food ultra-processed.
Chicken Fat is a high quality source of energy and essential fatty acids. For example, chicken fat contains linoleic acid which is an excellent source of the Omega-6 fatty acids. Quality fats support a shiny, healthy coat in dogs.
Corn Gluten Meal is the principal protein of corn. Despite the name, corn gluten does not contain true gluten which makes it 100% gluten-free indeed.
CGM has over 60% crude protein and good for digestibility.
Starch Meter
According to the guaranteed analysis, Royal Canin Veterinary Gastrointestinal Puppy Dry Dog Food has 27% protein, 20% fat, 3.2% fiber, and 10% moisture. If we assume 5% ash, then the starch amount in this dog food is 34.8%.
We calculated the starch ratio in Royal Canin Veterinary Gastrointestinal Puppy Dry Dog Food as 34.8%. Basically, around one third of the food you feed to {your dog} is starch.
Average starch ratio of dry dog foods on inthekibble.com is 38.67% - and that means this Royal Canin Veterinary kibble has less starch ratio than the average.
