James Wellbeloved Puppy Dry: Lamb & 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 lamb protein19.5%Easily digested and very palatable.
• White rice16%
• Naked oats, pea protein
• Brown rice13%
• Poultry fatA bird in the lamb bag.
• Whole linseed3.9%The most linseed in the range.
• Lamb gravy, fish oil
• Sugar beet pulp, alfalfa meal, minerals
• Seaweed, chicory extract, yucca extract0.5%, 0.25%, 0.02%Chicory is the prebiotic; yucca helps with stool odour.

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

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

Meat

Dried lamb protein 19.5%

20.5% to 30% on the others.

Analysis

Protein 28.5%, fat 16%

Identical to the fish.

Linseed

3.9%

3.5% to 3.6% elsewhere.

A common next step for a pup that has met chicken and not got on with it.

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

£5.06 (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

£1.11

The price runs a little ahead of what the analysis shows.