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Is Royal Canin with byproducts safe for my dog with pancreatitis?

Updated On September 23rd, 2025

Pet's info: Dog | Chihuahua | Female | spayed | 11 years and 8 months old

My 9 year-old has mild pancreatitis my other dog who is 4 does not I've been feeding them both a diet of boiled chicken breast and rice which I know is not a nutritional diet for dogs my vet reccomeded royal canin I had previously tried the kibble which they won't eat but they both love the royal canin wet food now I've read many articles that in any food the first ingredient should be meat no byproducts or cornmeal no beet pulp The Royal Canin contains pork byproducts cornmeal beet pulp is this

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Answered By Lauren Jones VMD

Veterinarian

Published on June 2nd, 2017

Littlebit is a cutie! Royal Canin diets are very high quality diets that are backed with extensive analysis and feeding clinical studies. Meat byproducts, corn meal and beat pulp are not the root of all evil, as many blogs and articles written by non-medical professionals like to claim. :-) In general, brands that I recommend include Royal Canin, Science Diet and Purina ProPlan due to the appropriate testing and controlled studies involving these diets. Take your vet's recommendation - Royal Canin canned foods (I assume the low fat?) can be quite helpful in managing chronic pancreatitis. You can also discuss low fat prescription diets by Science Diet and Purina with your vet to see if your dogs would be wiling to eat this kibbles, if that is your preference. I hope that all goes well!

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    Answered By Lindsey Edwards MVB, BSc, IVCA

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    The royal canin gastrointestinal low fat is the most effective diet I ahve found for controlling pancreatitis and reducing relapses. The feeding value of many by products and meat derivatives is linked to the method of processing and the verall formulation and digestibility of a diet cannot be directly linked to the basic ingredients. I recommend you feed for 4-6weeks and monitor for resolution of clinical signs and also general well being, skin and coat condition and energy levels

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