Sainsbury's

Sainsbury's Complete Nutrition Adult Cans: With Beef In Jelly review

Name: Sainsbury's Complete Nutrition Adult Cans: With Beef In Jelly
Brand: Sainsbury's

47/100Average

WetAdult

Flavour

The supermarket jelly can in its most familiar form, in beef and chicken, built to be picked up with the weekly shop. It sits in our Average band because a four-entry label leaves the species, the grains and the sugar level undeclared. Nothing inside the tin worries us.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Dog food that arrives with the weekly shop and keeps in the cupboard
Dogs that drink little, as most of the can is moisture
Any unfussy adult that gets on with a traditional meaty can
A simple topper over kibble

Worth watching

Only 4% of each can is the named animal; the rest of the 36% is unnamed derivatives
Cereals and sugars with no names or amounts
Two flavours on one recipe, so less variety than the fronts suggest

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

How this scores

How we score

47/100Average

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceExcellent

TransparencyGood

ValueAverage

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adult dogs of every size. These are light cans, so portions run generous and a case empties faster under a bigger dog.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Beef

The score, in context

With Beef In Jelly 47.0
With Chicken In Jelly 47.0

All two Average. Typical wet food: Excellent.

The score measures how much the short label tells you, not how dinner goes down.

What's in it

Meat and animal derivatives, including beef36%, beef 4%Meat and offal from any approved species; only the beef is pinned down, and the rest can change between batches.
CerealsUnnamed, and doing real work going by the carbohydrate.
Minerals
Various sugarsFor colour and palatability, no percentage given.

A short panel, properly dosed: vitamins D3 and E with iron, iodine, manganese, zinc and copper as sulphates and iodate.

Named ingredients

Meat and Animal Derivatives (36%, including 4% Beef), Cereals, Minerals, Various Sugars.

Against the range

Named meat: 4% beef; 4% chicken and 4% liver in the other.
Organ share: None declared; The chicken can declares liver.

For a dog loyal to the beefier end of the shelf.

Both cans share a four-entry label and one analysis: meat and animal derivatives at 36%, unnamed cereals, minerals and various sugars. Only the named share inside the meat line changes, 4% beef in one, 4% chicken and 4% liver in the other.

With the water out, protein converts to 38.9% of dry matter and fat to 22.2%, respectable for an everyday wet food. Estimated carbohydrate is 25.0%, above the 15.8% typical, and energy is light at 78 kcal per 100g.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

78 kcal/100g

Protein

Fat

Fibre

0.5%

Ash

Moisture

82%

Dry weight

Protein

38.9%

Fat

22.2%

Fibre

2.8%

Ash

11.1%

Carbs

25%

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

36%

Added water

17%

Carbs

38.5%

Other

8.5%

Pricing & size