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Royal Canin

Kitten

$5.28 / lb14 lb bag · ChewySee bags and stores ↓

Royal Canin Kitten is a dry kitten food with grains. Its first ingredients are chicken by-product meal, brown rice and brewers rice. It has an Ingredients score of 47/100, a Nutrition score of 8.6/10 and nothing on our Avoid List. The lowest price we found is $5.28/lb (14 lb bag at Chewy).

Label checked Oct 27, 2026 · Price checked Oct 27, 2026

How It Scores

Ingredient score47 /100

The first 5 ingredients count for 70%, the rest for 30%.

Chicken by-product meal
2 / 5
By-product meal
Brown rice
2 / 5
Grain, potato or other carb source
Brewers rice
1 / 5
Starch or refined grain
Chicken fat
4 / 5
Named animal fat
Wheat gluten
1 / 5
Plant protein concentrate
Other ingredients
3.1 / 5
Average of the other 26 ingredients

Avoid List

0

The label lists none of the additives we count.

The number of unwanted additives on the label, counted separately from the two scores: 0 is best. How we score

Nutrition score8.6 /10

Kitten targets. Values as listed on the label.

Protein 34%
4 / 5
Full points between 39% and 49%
Fat 16%
5 / 5
Full points between 15% and 22%
Carbohydrates 31.1%
3.8 / 5
Full points between 15% and 25%. Our estimate: the label does not list ash.
Fiber 4.4%
not scored
Shown for information.

What Is in It

Dry matter means the food with the water taken out. It lets you compare foods with different moisture fairly.

On the labelDry matter
Protein (min)34%36.8%
Fat (min)16%17.3%
Fiber (max)4.4%4.8%
Ashnot listed-
Carbohydrates (estimate)31.1%33.6%
Moisture (max)7.5%-
Calories3,823 kcal/kg · 367 kcal/cup

Label numbers are limits, not exact amounts: protein and fat are minimums, fiber and moisture are maximums.

Labels do not list carbohydrates, and this one does not list ash either. We estimate carbohydrates by assuming 7% ash, a typical value for dry cat food, and subtracting everything else from 100.

First 5 Ingredients

Ingredients are listed by weight, heaviest first. The first few usually make up most of the food.

  1. Chicken by-product meal
  2. brown rice
  3. brewers rice
  4. chicken fat
  5. wheat gluten

All Ingredients (Label Order)

Chicken by-product meal, brown rice, brewers rice, chicken fat, wheat gluten, natural flavors, corn, corn gluten meal, egg product, dried plain beet pulp, powdered cellulose, vegetable oil, sodium aluminosilicate, sodium pyrophosphate, potassium chloride, powdered psyllium seed husk, taurine, rice flour, fish oil, fructooligosaccharides, choline chloride, hydrolyzed yeast, marine microalgae oil, calcium carbonate, vitamins [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), vitamin A acetate, thiamine mononitrate (vitamin B1), vitamin B12 supplement, folic acid, vitamin D3 supplement], salt, trace minerals [zinc proteinate, zinc oxide, manganese proteinate, ferrous sulfate, manganous oxide, copper sulfate, sodium selenite, calcium iodate, copper proteinate], marigold extract (Tagetes erecta L.), carotene, rosemary extract, preserved with mixed tocopherols and citric acid

Estimated Monthly Cost

Kittens eat more as they grow. By age, using the maker's daily amount and the cheapest bag.

2-month-old kitten$171/2 cup (48 g) a day
4-month-old kitten$253/4 cup (72 g) a day
8-month-old kitten$222/3 cup (64 g) a day

The maker gives the daily amount as a range by age. We worked out the amount for each age from that range, so it is an estimate.

Bags and Stores

Prices were checked by hand on the date shown and may have changed. Store links may earn us a commission at no cost to you. How this works

BagPriceper lb
14 lbCheapest per lbChewy · price checked Oct 27, 2026$73.99$5.28Buy
7 lbChewy · price checked Oct 27, 2026$41.99$6.00Buy
3 lbChewy · price checked Oct 27, 2026$29.99$10.00Buy

Similar Price, Better Ingredients

Same age group, a higher Ingredients score, a Nutrition score no more than 0.5 lower and no more unwanted additives, at most 20% more per pound.

Data source: The feeding chart lists 6 and 9 month old kittens; the 8 month amount is interpolated between them.

Last checked: Oct 27, 2026 ·Maker's page ·Suggest a correction