How did your animal do on Royal Canin? You did actually try the product before reviewing it, didn't you? You didn't? Hmmm. Perhaps there are some movies you haven't seen that you could review for us as well? The fact is that how a dog is doing on any particular pet food is the number one way to review the quality of that food. Your pet's coat and skin; demeanor (appetite, energy, mood); and stool condition or the top three ways of judging your animal's health. Period. End of story. To argue otherwise is idiocy. Sure. "Doing fine" may not be a good gauge. But "thriving" certainly is. If a person switches to a particular brand and formula of pet food, let's say Royal Canin Large Breed for argument's sake, and their animal's skin and coat improve, their energy, mood and appetite increase, and their vomiting and diarrhea goes away, it is good food. Period. It doesn't matter if it contains corn gluten meal or if it doesn't contain organic holistic alfalfa sprouts from Tibet. It is still good food. Most Royal Canin formulas have a "named meat meal" as their first ingredient, which seems to be so important to you whiners. They also contain live bacterial cultures, and a plethora of good healthy ingredients. Sure, I prefer a food without too many grains when possible. But corn is not unhealthy, unless your animal is allergic to it. And, they have just as much of a chance of being allergic to chicken or fish. I just have no patience for stupidity.

more rice and oat meal (healthy)than corn in the ingredients, no animal digest. would prefer that beet pulp be removed, but FAR more pro's than cons with this brand.