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Dry kibble · Guaranteed basis · checked 2026-07-25

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Royal Canin German Shepherd Adult

Dry kibble No AAFCO statement

Part of the Royal Canin Breed Health Nutrition line. On a dry-matter basis this recipe is 24.6% protein and 19% fat, at 3,803 kcal per kilogram (338 kcal per cup). Royal Canin publishes no AAFCO nutritional adequacy statement for this recipe.

Composition as sold · 0–100% of the food by weight

Drawn from the published guaranteed analysis. The two hatched bands are inferred rather than measured: carbohydrate is estimated by difference and ash is assumed, because neither is required on a US label.

Label nutrition data

Guaranteed analysis as it appears on the label: minimums for protein and fat, maximums for fibre and moisture. The dry-matter and per-1,000-kcal columns are computed from those published figures, not restated from anywhere else. Hatched cells are values Royal Canin does not publish. Scroll horizontally — 4 columns. Published source ↗
Nutrient As fed (label) Dry matter g / 1,000 kcal
Crude protein (guaranteed min) 22% 24.6% 57.8g
Crude fat (guaranteed min) 17% 19% 44.7g
Crude fibre (guaranteed max) 4.8% 5.4% 12.6g
Moisture (guaranteed max) 10.5% — —
Carbohydrate (estimated) ~37.7% ~42.1% ~99.1g

First ingredients

Ingredients are listed by weight before cooking, so the first few describe most of what the recipe is made of — and nothing about the quality of any of them.

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First 8 of the published list, in the manufacturer's order. The full list is on Royal Canin's product page ↗ .

AAFCO statement

Not published by Royal Canin

No nutritional adequacy statement appears on Royal Canin's public page for this recipe — AAFCO statement not captured cleanly from page; verify on label. Without it there is no published life-stage claim to report, so this page makes none. Check the panel on the pack.

The two wordings are different claims. Formulated to meet means the recipe was matched to an AAFCO nutrient profile on paper. Animal feeding tests using AAFCO procedures substantiate means the finished food was fed to dogs under a defined protocol — a minimum of eight dogs over twenty-six weeks. Both are legal standards of adequacy; only one involved dogs, and neither is a statement about ingredient quality. We quote whichever appears verbatim, and weight it in the score above: 20 points for a feeding trial, 12 for a formulation claim.

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The label, charted

Everything above, as one square you can save or send. It is generated from this page's own figures, so it cannot drift from them, and it is ours to publish — no manufacturer supplied it and none can withdraw it.

Label data chart for Royal Canin German Shepherd Adult: on a dry-matter basis, protein 24.6%, fat 19%, estimated carbohydrate 42.1%. Not scored — too little published.
Dry-matter basis · Manufacturer's label ↗

Manufacturers reformulate without announcing it, and a website can lag a bag by months. The panel on the pack in your hand outranks this page; where the two disagree, the pack is right and we want to know.

Source royalcanin.com ↗ Captured 2026-07-25 Methodology