Royal Canin: Is It Good, and How to Spot Fakes
📝 Summary
Royal Canin’s real bags use bold type and fine batch codes; soaked kibble softens in about 5 minutes (fakes stay hard). For the A3 line, watch for the 4-lobe shape and skip any 20 kg bag — Royal never made one. The surest check is the code on the brand’s official site.
1 Look and Feel
Genuine packaging uses bolded fonts; fakes use uniform size. Check the fine print in the seam: real uses small bold codes, fakes large spaced ones. Soaked in water, real kibble goes fully soft in about 5 minutes at any soak time, while fake stays hard even at 10.
2 Royal A3 Quality
A3 is popular for big dogs and kennels for value and taste. Real A3 is pale with a strong scent; fake is darker with little scent. Real A3 is well-expanded and crisp-dry; fake is dense and slightly damp. A 20 kg bag is always fake — Royal never released A3 in 20 kg; those are outside knock-offs. Real A3 pellets have a 4-lobe shape; fakes have 3.
3 Official Check
Royal has many products and fakes keep shifting, so the safest way is to verify the code on the package at the brand’s official site — the easiest, most reliable test.
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