James Wellbeloved Adult Small Breed Dry: Lamb & Rice review

1. Turkey 58.1
2. Lamb 57.9
3. Chicken 56.0
4. Fish 46.8

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

Chicken, lamb and turkey sit close enough that the meat should decide it; cereal outweighing meat is what stops the range going higher.

• Lamb meal26%Written to a different pattern from the other three.
• White rice23.6%
• Barley, brown rice5.5% brown rice
• Lamb fat5.5%In place of poultry fat, so every animal entry bar the fish oil is lamb.
• Pea protein, whole linseed, sugar beet pulp
• Lamb gravy2.9%
• Alfalfa meal, tomato pomace, sunflower oil, carrots, seaweed
• Vegetarian stock, salt, fish oil, potassium chlorideFish oil is the one non-lamb animal entry.
• Chicory extract, calcium carbonate, cranberry extract, yucca0.1%, 0.05% cranberry

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

Fat source

Lamb fat, sunflower oil

Poultry fat on the other three.

Carbohydrate, dry matter

43.8%

The lightest starch load of the four.

Ash, dry matter

10.4%

7.2% to 9.2% on the others.

The most straightforward bag here for a small dog kept away from birds.

Each bag opens with a dried meat at around a quarter of the recipe, then a run of rice, oats and barley, so cereal fills more of each bag than meat. Sugar beet pulp, alfalfa and tomato pomace handle fibre, chicory extract adds inulin, and seaweed covers iodine. Fish oil is on all four lists.

Chicken, fish and turkey share one pattern with the meat swapped and poultry fat behind it. The lamb is written differently: lamb meal and white rice lead, and lamb fat with sunflower oil takes the place of poultry fat. No label prints glucosamine or chondroitin.

Price per kilo

£6.07 (RRP)

Pack

1.5kg, 4.5kg, 7.5kg

A 15kg dog eats (our estimate)

210 to 255 g a day, 235 in the middle

Cost per day, 15kg dog

£1.43

You pay more than the analysis alone would justify.