James Wellbeloved Adult Large Breed Dry: Fish & Rice review

1. Lamb 60.5
2. Turkey 60.2
3. Chicken 58.3
4. Fish 49.0

Four recipes across Good and Average. Typical dry food: Good.

Three of the four sit close enough together that your dog's preferred meat is the better guide, with the fish a step behind.

• Dried fish protein22%Fish is not named to a species.
• BarleyLeads the cereals here, and carries gluten.
• Brown rice, white rice13% each
• Naked oats
• Poultry fatA bird fat in a fish recipe.
• Fish stock, whole linseed, fish oil3.7% linseedPlant and marine omega 3.
• Pea protein, dried peas, alfalfa meal, pea fibre
• Seaweed, minerals, chicory pulp0.5% seaweed
• Nettles, parsley, chicory extract, glucosamine, yucca extract, chondroitin0.1% down to 0.005%Glucosamine at 0.045%, chondroitin at 0.005%.

Vitamins A, D3 and E with copper, iron, manganese and zinc, the zinc as a glycine chelate.

Poultry fat sits in this fish recipe, so it is not a single-protein food.

Meat

22% dried fish protein

24% to 25% on the others

Moisture

Declared at 8.0%

Not declared on the other three

Carbohydrate, dry matter

46.3%

47.7% on the chicken

First cereal

Barley

Naked oats on chicken and turkey

The lowest meat share of the four, which is why it sits a band under the rest.

Every bag opens with a dried meat protein, 22% on the fish and up to 25% on the lamb and turkey, followed by 13% brown rice, 13% white rice, naked oats and barley. Poultry fat, fish oil, whole linseed, glucosamine and chondroitin appear on all four labels.

What varies is the meat, the order of the cereals and how much analysis is printed. Chicken and fish publish a full panel; lamb and turkey give the energy figure only.

Price per kilo

£3.80 (RRP)

Pack

15kg

A 15kg dog eats (our estimate)

215 to 260 g a day, 240 in the middle

Cost per day, 15kg dog

£0.91

Budget end of the market for a dry food, though the analysis does not quite match the price.