Jessica's K9 Kitchen

Jessica's K9 Kitchen Jessica's Stew: Pork, Beef & Lamb — No Root Veg review

Name: Jessica's K9 Kitchen Jessica's Stew: Pork, Beef & Lamb — No Root Veg
Brand: Jessica's K9 Kitchen

75.8/100Excellent

FreshAdult

Flavour

A home kitchen recipe scaled up and gently prepared, sitting in our Excellent band. The meat is itemised down to the beef tongue and the lamb lung, which very few labels bother with. Three versions answer the questions owners actually ask: with chicken, without it, and without root vegetables.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Dogs that do better without chicken, on two of the three
Organ meat in the bowl, with beef liver and lamb lung at 5% each
Dogs asked to avoid root vegetables, on the No Root Veg version
Puppies and seniors, catered for by two recipes
A portioned meal in the same 500g pack

Worth watching

Beef, pork and lamb in all three, so no single-meat plan
Seasonal vegetables that change through the year; even the No Root Veg label gives root vegetables as an example
No calcium figure, though fresh bone at 10% supplies it. A large breed puppy is a reason to ring the kitchen first

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

How this scores

How we score

75.8/100Excellent

Protein and processingOutstanding

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyGood

ValueExcellent

The details

Dog fit

Two recipes are listed for puppies, adults and seniors, and the No Root Veg for adults only. Confirm the current vegetable batch with the kitchen if your dog avoids a particular one.

Food type

Fresh

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Pork

The score, in context

Pork 75.8
With Pork 75.8
With Chicken 73.7

All three Excellent. Typical fresh food: Outstanding.

Fresh is the strongest category we score, and a band just under its typical food still describes a genuinely good dinner, with the chicken version a whisker behind.

What's in it

Fresh meat: lean beef, beef heart, beef tongue, pork leg, pork tongue60% (16% each of the meat)Heart and tongue are hard-working muscles, dense and nutritious.
Beef liver5%Vitamin A, B12, copper and folate together.
Lamb lung5%Lean and light, and most dogs take to it.
Pork bone10%Where the calcium comes from, though no figure is printed.
Added seasonal vegetablesThe label still gives root vegetables as an example.

The printed list gives root vegetables as an example of the seasonal veg, so confirm the batch with the kitchen.

Named ingredients

Fresh Meat: 60%, Lean beef (16%), beef heart (16%), beef tongue (16%), pork leg (16%), pork tongue (16%), Offal: 10%, Beef liver (5%), lamb lung (5%), Fresh Bone: 10%, Pork bone (10%), Added Seasonal Vegetables, [e.g. Root Vegetables & Greens]

Against the range

Vegetables: No root veg, by intent; Seasonal, roots included, on the other two.
Life stage: Adults only; Puppies to seniors on the other two.
Meat: Itemised, no chicken; Same as the No Chicken; the With Chicken adds a bird.

The version for a dog whose vet or history rules out root vegetables.

All three are built the same way: 60% fresh meat, 10% offal (beef liver and lamb lung at 5% each), 10% fresh bone and the balance in seasonal vegetables. Two itemise the meat as lean beef, beef heart, beef tongue, pork leg and pork tongue at 16% each, read as shares of the meat fraction.

What varies is chicken, which appears in one recipe only, and the bone, pork in two and chicken in the third. Moisture is 75%, so protein converts to 47.0% of dry matter. The energy figure is our estimate.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

94.3 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

11.75%

Fat

3.51%

Fibre

Ash

2.08%

Moisture

75%

Dry weight

Protein

47%

Fat

14%

Fibre

Ash

8.3%

Carbs

26.7%

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

100%

Pricing & size

Price per kilo: £10.00 (RRP)
Pack: 500 g (single pack - the only size sold; multi-packs are sold as subscription boxes)
A 15kg dog eats (our estimate): 300 to 450 g a day, 375 in the middle
Cost per day, 15kg dog: £3.75

Premium end for a gently cooked fresh food, and fair value for the quality.

Ingredients and nutrition are taken from manufacturer data. Retailer pricing is not yet live for this food.