Lovejoys

Lovejoys Original Wet Adult: Lamb, Rice & Vegetables review

Name: Lovejoys Original Wet Adult: Lamb, Rice & Vegetables
Brand: Lovejoys

75.5/100Excellent

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Flavour

Lovejoys Original Wet Adult is a six recipe shelf of 395g tins built on one idea: a named meat or fish first, brown rice behind it, and a short printed line of extras. Five of the six sit in our Excellent band, level with the middle of the adult wet market, and the Chicken and Tripe a step below in Good. The choice is about which animal suits your dog.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Dogs happiest on one land animal, at 60% on the Chicken, Lamb and Turkey
Owners who like joint extras itemised on the label
Homes with dogs of different sizes, on one adult recipe from toy to giant
Dogs that do well on a gentle grain
Fussy eaters. The tripe tin reliably tempts a dog off strike
Dogs that drink too little, with moisture between 72.5% and 73%

Worth watching

Fish on every label, as salmon oil or as the Ocean Fish recipe itself
Brown rice in all six, so no grain free option
Carbohydrate up to 31.5% of dry matter on the Ocean Fish, against 15.8% typical

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

How this scores

How we score

75.5/100Excellent

Protein and processingExcellent

Nutritional balanceGood

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueExcellent

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults of every size. The printed doses differ between tins, so read the label on the one you actually buy.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Lamb

The score, in context

Chicken 78.9
Turkey 78.1
Lamb 75.5
Ocean Fish 74.9
Chicken 74.3
Chicken 63.7

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

The single meat tins read strongest, and the plant load is what keeps the whole shelf from climbing higher.

What's in it

Lamb60%The only red meat on the shelf.
Brown rice5%
Vegetables: peas, carrots2% each
Salmon oil
Seaweed55.5mg/kg
Mixed herbs
Glucosamine, chondroitin38mg/kg, 22mg/kgPrinted as milligrams per kilo.
Yucca, cranberry and yeast extracts, minerals

Vitamins A, D3 and E with six trace minerals, zinc at 67 mg per kilo.

Named ingredients

Lamb (60%), Brown Rice (5%), Vegetables: Peas (2%), Carrots (2%), Salmon Oil, Seaweed (55.5mg/kg), Mixed Herbs, Glucosamine (38mg/kg), Chondroitin (22mg/kg), Yucca Extract, Cranberry Extract, Yeast Extract - High Nucleotide, Minerals

Against the range

Meat: Lamb 60%; Poultry or fish on the other five.
Protein and fat, dry matter: 32.7% each; The most evenly balanced of the six.

The red meat tin, for a dog that does better off poultry.

A named meat or fish leads every tin. The Chicken, Lamb and Turkey carry 60% of one animal, two tins pair chicken with duck or tripe, and the Ocean Fish leads with salmon and white fish. Brown rice at 5% follows on all six, with a little pea and usually carrot behind it.

Seaweed, herbs, glucosamine and chondroitin run through the range, and salmon oil is the fat on five of the six. Estimated carbohydrate spans 18.9% to 31.5% of dry matter, and every tin prints its vitamin and mineral panel, though the doses differ between labels.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

136 kcal/100g

Protein

Fat

Fibre

0.3%

Ash

3.5%

Moisture

72.5%

Dry weight

Protein

32.7%

Fat

32.7%

Fibre

1.1%

Ash

12.7%

Carbs

20.8%

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

60%

Added water

18.6%

Carbs

Veg

5.4%

Oils

4.8%

Other

4.2%

Pricing & size