James Wellbeloved Adult Wet Loaf Cans: Chicken & Rice review

1. Turkey 74.7
2. Chicken 73.3
3. Turkey 72.8
4. Turkey 51.5

Four recipes across Excellent and Good. Typical wet food: Excellent.

Three cans sit where a meat-first can should, and only the turkey can, held back by its protein and processing reading, falls a band.

• Chicken50%Half the tin from one named animal, a claim you can check.
• Rice4%The only grain.
• Carrots3.5%
• Minerals
• Peas, dried beet pulp0.5% eachBeet pulp is fibre.
• Potato starchHolds the loaf together.
• Oils and fats (including linseed oil)linseed 0.2%The animal source is never named.
• Alfalfa, seaweedalfalfa 0.1%Seaweed is a natural iodine source.

Vitamin D3, vitamin E, copper, manganese and zinc, each dosed per kilo, the same panel as the rest of the range.

Meat

Chicken 50%

Turkey 50% on its own can; the multipacks mix three recipes.

Animal content (our estimate)

31.5%

Lowest of the four; the grain free box reaches 56.2%.

Carbohydrate, dry matter

23.5%

Same on the turkey can and rice box; 19.0% on the grain free.

The plain chicken loaf, and it holds its protein and processing reading level with the multipacks.

The single-flavour loaves open with one named animal at 50%, half the tin before anything else is counted. The plant side is small and printed: rice at 4%, carrots at 3.5%, peas and dried beet pulp at 0.5% each, with potato starch holding the loaf. Oils and fats is the one vague line, though the linseed oil inside it is declared.

The grain free box swaps rice for dried potatoes and spells out the offal. The added panel is the same short, dosed set on every can, and the analysis barely moves: protein at 37.5% of dry matter on three cans, 39.5% on the grain free box.

Price per kilo

£11.23 (RRP)

Pack

1 can, 12 cans

A 15kg dog eats

900 to 1000 g a day, 950 in the middle

Cost per day, 15kg dog

£10.67

Premium end of the market for a wet food, and the Value pillar still reads Excellent.