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James Wellbeloved Adult Superfood: Lamb with Sweet Potato & Chia review

Name: James Wellbeloved Adult Superfood: Lamb with Sweet Potato & Chia
Brand: James Wellbeloved

52.3/100Good

DryAdult

Flavour

A competent everyday bowl for an ordinary adult dog, with a better than average plant list on top. The superfood extras are real and each has a percentage printed beside it: sweet potato and chia in the lamb, kale and quinoa in the turkey. Both sit at the lower end of our Good band.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Owners who want the fashionable extras quantified
A toy, a giant or anything between, from one recipe
Steadier dogs with modest energy needs and a gentle fat level
Dogs that thrive on rice
A short list with nothing on it you cannot place

Worth watching

Small headline plants: chia at 0.1%, kale and quinoa at 2% each
Fish oil and poultry fat in both, so neither is fish free or single animal
Estimated carbohydrate past the 46.2% typical for adult dry food on both bags
No glucosamine or chondroitin for an older dog's joints

Written by our editorial team. Independent guidance, not veterinary advice.

How this scores

How we score

52.3/100Good

Protein and processingAverage

Nutritional balancePoor

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults of every size. No moisture is printed, so the dry matter figures assume 8%; let your dog's waistline settle the daily amount.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Lamb

The score, in context

Turkey 54.2
Lamb 52.3

All two Good. Typical dry food: Good.

The plant names on the front were never going to move the score much at these percentages, and the rice-heavy shape underneath decides it.

What's in it

Dried lamb protein23.5%Declared dried, the more honest way to print it.
BarleySecond on the list, and only in this bag.
Brown rice, white rice18%, 17.7%More of the bag than the meat.
Poultry fatNo bird named, and the reason this is not a lamb only bag.
Whole linseed3.9%Plant omega 3, which a dog converts slowly.
Sweet potato3.9%A genuine ingredient, not a garnish.
Lamb gravy, sugar beet pulp, alfalfa mealBeet pulp with its sugar already extracted.
Minerals, seaweed0.5% seaweedIodine and trace minerals.
Fish oilThe ready made omega 3s for the coat.
Chia seeds, chicory extract, yucca extract0.1%, 0.1%, 0.02%Chia is a flourish beside the linseed.

Zinc as a glycine chelate, with selenium as sodium selenite and tocopherols preserving.

Named ingredients

Dried lamb protein* (23.5%), barley*, brown rice* (18%), white rice* (17.7%), poultry fat*, whole linseed* (3.9%), sweet potato* (3.9%), lamb gravy, sugar beet pulp*, alfalfa meal*, minerals, seaweed* (0.5%), fish oil, chia seeds* (0.1%), chicory extract* (0.1%), yucca extract* (0.02%). *Natural ingredient.

Against the range

Meat: Dried lamb protein, 23.5%; Dried turkey protein, 23.3%, on the other.
Carbohydrate, dry matter: 52.8%; 51.0% on the turkey.
Protein, as fed: 20.2%; 23.8% on the turkey.
Grain: Barley with the two rices; Naked oats with more rice on the turkey.

The one to try if poultry has worn thin at home, though the poultry fat is still on the list.

Both bags lead with a dried meat protein at a little under a quarter of the recipe, declared dried so the figure does not shrink in the oven. Brown and white rice together outweigh the meat. Whole linseed and fish oil do the omega work, poultry fat sits in both, and sugar beet pulp, alfalfa, seaweed, chicory and yucca are shared. What differs is the named plants and the second grain: barley in the lamb, naked oats in the turkey.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

350 kcal/100g

Protein

20.2%

Fat

11%

Fibre

Ash

9.1%

Dry weight

Protein

22%

Fat

12%

Fibre

3.3%

Ash

9.9%

Carbs

52.8%

As-fed composition

Estimated breakdown of the finished product by ingredient category, from the declared ingredient list and ingoing weights. These are estimates, not measurements.

Meat

29.6%

Carbs

58.1%

Veg

2.2%

Oils

5.3%

Other

4.9%

Pricing & size