James Wellbeloved Adult Small Breed Dry: Turkey & 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.

• Dried turkey protein26.5%The chicken recipe with the bird swapped.
• Naked oats
• Brown rice, white rice13% each
• Barley
• Poultry fatNever names its bird.
• Sugar beet pulp
• Whole linseed3.9%Plant omega 3.
• Turkey gravy, dried vegetarian stock
• Alfalfa, tomato pomace, minerals, seaweed, carrots0.5% seaweed
• Fish oil, chicory extract, yucca extract0.1% chicory, 0.02% yucca

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

Poultry fat names no bird, so check with the maker if chicken must be kept out entirely.

Meat

Dried turkey protein 26.5%

Level with the chicken.

Carbohydrate, dry matter

45.2%

Below the chicken's 47.3%.

Score

58.1

The top of the range, just ahead of the lamb.

For a small dog whose system objects to chicken meat, turkey is the way round it.

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.