Josera

Josera Lamb & Rice review

Name: Josera Josera Lamb & Rice
Brand: Josera

53.9/100Good

DryAdult

Josera Lamb & Rice is a plain recipe of the old-fashioned kind, with rice at 53.0% and dried lamb protein at 25.0% accounting for most of the bag between them. Lamb is the only named meat, taurine is dosed in print, and there is very little else to read. Our scoring gives it the Good band, with the amount of rice in the bowl the thing that holds it there rather than anything about the lamb.

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Our view

Likely to suit

You will not need long to read this ingredient list, and for some dogs that is precisely the appeal.

Dogs that do better on lamb than on the commoner meats, with dried lamb protein at 25.0% the only named meat here
Owners trying to track down a trigger, since the whole recipe runs to seven entries
Dogs whose digestion has settled on rice, which leads the list at 53.0%
Households with a large dog, as the feeding guide climbs to 80kg of bodyweight
Owners who like taurine spelled out, dosed here at 1000 mg/kg

Worth watching

A short ingredient list still repays a careful read, and there are a few things to note here.

Poultry fat is the added fat, so lamb is the only named meat but not the only animal in the bowl
Protein settles at 22.8% of dry matter, on the gentler side for a dry food
There is no calcium figure on the label, so a growing dog is not covered by it

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

How this scores

How we score

53.9/100Good

Protein and processingAverage

Nutritional balancePoor

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueGood

The Details

Dog fit

You will not need long to read this ingredient list, and for some dogs that is precisely the appeal. A short ingredient list still repays a careful read, and there are a few things to note here.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Main protein

Lamb

The score, in context

This one holds the Good band, the same one most adult dry foods reach. It is a construction story rather than a quality one: rice at 53.0% is the biggest thing in the bag, protein settles at 22.8% of dry matter and carbohydrate at 53.2% against a 46.2% norm. Protein and processing reads Average with nutritional balance Poor, and for a dog that gets along with lamb and rice it feeds perfectly happily day after day.

What's in it

Ingredients, as declared: rice 53.0 %; lamb protein (dried) 25.0 %; beet fibre; poultry fat; yeast (partially hydrolysed); carob meal; minerals.

Named ingredients

Rice 53.0 %; lamb protein (dried) 25.0 %; beet fibre; poultry fat; yeast (partially hydrolysed); carob meal; minerals.

Nutritional additives

- **Nutritional additives per 1 kg** _(first block)_: pantothenic acid 50 mg/kg, niacin 90 mg/kg, folic acid 5 mg/kg, taurine 1000 mg/kg, biotin 800 mcg/kg, iron (ferrous sulfate, monohydrate) 180 mg/kg, zinc (zinc chelate of glycine, hydrate) 160 mg/kg, manganese (manganese- (II)-oxide) 16 mg/kg, copper (cupric chelate of glycine, hydrate) 15 mg/kg, iodine (calcium iodate) 2,0 mg/kg, selenium (sodium selenite) 0,25 mg/kg - **Nutritional additives per 1 kg** _(second block, same heading repeated)_: vitamin A 18000 I.U./kg, vitamin D3 1800 I.U./kg, vitamin E 200 mg/kg, vitamin B1 15 mg/kg, vitamin B2 20 mg/kg, vitamin B6 20 mg/kg, vitamin B12 100 mcg/kg - **Technological additives:** Antioxidants: tocopherol extracts of natural origin.

Ingredient notes

Rice at 53.0% is the headline and there is no getting away from it, since more than half of what goes into the mixer is cereal. Rice is gentle, well tolerated and easy to digest, which is exactly why it is the grain of choice in recipes written for sensitive dogs, but it is starch first and foremost. Carbohydrate finishes at 53.2% of dry matter against 46.2% for the typical adult dry food.

Dried lamb protein at 25.0% is the meat, and dried matters again here. Its water has already gone, so a quarter of the recipe by weight is concentrated lamb. Lamb goes down well and sits easily on most digestions. Few dogs meet it often, and that is half the reason it turns up in recipes like this one.

The complication for anyone using it as an exclusion diet is poultry fat, which supplies the added fat and names no species. The list names lamb as the only meat protein, yet bird is in the bowl. A strict elimination trial has to account for that.

Crude ash converts to 9.1% of dry matter, a high figure for a dry food. Burn everything else away and ash is the mineral fraction that remains, so a figure like this usually means bone coming along with a dried meat protein. For a healthy adult dog it sits within the normal range.

Beet fibre, carob meal and partially hydrolysed yeast fill out what is left. The yeast has been broken down to make it easier to absorb and to add savour, carob meal brings a little natural sweetness and helps bind the biscuit, and beet fibre keeps the stools firm. Taurine at 1000 mg/kg is dosed in print, as are the chelated zinc and copper at 160 mg/kg and 15 mg/kg.

Price and value

£3.53 a kilo, sold in a 15kg bag.

For a 15kg adult dog in moderate condition, that is around 238 grams and £0.84 a day, working from a maintenance estimate of 840 kcal a day (110 × bodyweight^0.75). The label's guide, written for the less active dog, asks 155 grams for a 20kg one, so read the two against your own dog's condition.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

352.6 kcal/100g

Protein

21%

Fat

11%

Fibre

2.7%

Ash

8.4%

Dry weight

Protein

22.8%

Fat

12%

Fibre

2.9%

Ash

9.1%

Carbs

53.2%

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.

Oils

100%

Pricing & size