James Wellbeloved Puppy Dry: Chicken & Rice review

1. Chicken 64.4
2. Turkey 58.6
3. Lamb 57.4
4. Fish 49.5

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

Three bags sit level with the typical puppy food; the fish's smaller meat share puts it a step behind, and modest meat shares hold protein and processing back across the range.

• Dried chicken protein30%Weighed dry, so it brings more protein than fresh meat at the same share.
• Brown rice17.2%
• Naked oats, white riceunstated, 13%
• Poultry fatNo bird named.
• Pea proteinPlant protein propping up the analysis.
• Whole linseed3.5%
• Chicken gravy
• Alfalfa meal, sugar beet pulp, mineralsFibre.
• Pea fibre, seaweed, fish oilseaweed 0.5%Fish oil puts fish in a chicken bag.
• Chicory extract, yucca extract0.25%, 0.02%

Vitamins A, D3 and E with dosed trace minerals, zinc as a glycine chelate at 100 mg; the only bag that prints selenium.

Calcium converts to 1.63% of dry matter. For a pup heading for 30kg or more, ask your vet about portions.

Meat

Dried chicken protein 30%

19.5% to 24% on the others.

Protein, dry matter

33.0%

31.0% on the fish and lamb.

Selenium

Printed at 0.16 mg

Not listed on the others.

The largest meat share and the top of the range, though chicken is the meat most likely to disagree with a dog.

Four bags on one frame: a named dried meat protein first, then rice with naked oats or barley, then pea protein. Poultry fat is the added fat in all four, and no bird is named.

Whole linseed at 3.5% to 3.9% and fish oil sit on every list, so plant and marine omega 3 arrive together. Chicory extract at 0.25% and seaweed at 0.5% close each label. Only the lead protein changes.

Price per kilo

£4.43 (RRP)

Pack

2kg, 8kg, 15kg

A 15kg dog eats (our estimate)

195 to 240 g a day, 220 in the middle

Cost per day, 15kg dog

£0.97

The cheapest bag of the four per kilo, though the price runs a little ahead of what the analysis shows.