Sainsbury's

Sainsbury's Complete Nutrition Adult Dry: With Beef & Vegetables review

Name: Sainsbury's Complete Nutrition Adult Dry: With Beef & Vegetables
Brand: Sainsbury's

28.7/100Poor

DryAdult

Flavour

A plain, cereal-based supermarket kibble that does what its name promises and nothing more, in our Poor band. That reading is about how little the label commits to as much as what goes in the bowl. It is still a complete adult food, and a dog thriving on it is doing perfectly well.

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Our view

Likely to suit

A settled adult that has always done well on supermarket kibble
Big dogs; the feeding guide goes to a 50kg adult
Dogs with no known food sensitivities
A short label, and one bag for every size of dog in the house

Worth watching

Cereals is not pinned to one grain, so keeping a dog off wheat is hard
All the animal content beyond the named 4% sits under meat and animal derivatives
Carbohydrate at 56.0% of dry matter against 46.2% typical

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

How this scores

How we score

28.7/100Poor

Protein and processingPoor

Nutritional balancePoor

TransparencyGood

ValuePoor

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults of every size. The pack's table puts dogs from 10kg to 30kg on 180 to 410 grams a day, so let your dog's shape settle where in it they belong.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Beef

The score, in context

With Chicken 29.1
With Beef 28.7

All two Poor. Typical dry food: Good.

Very little of the low reading is about anything the food does wrong; it follows from four umbrella terms and a cereal-led analysis.

What's in it

CerealsGrain is the base, but not which grain; the maker can move between wheat, maize, rice and barley.
Meat and animal derivatives25.5%A legal category that takes in good material and poor alike.
Beef4%The only named animal, inside the 25.5%.
Oils and fatsAnimal or plant, the label does not say.
Minerals
Vegetables (dried peas)0.5%Equivalent to 4% peas before drying; a small contribution.

Vitamins A, D3 and E dosed in print, with minerals as oxides and sulphates, the older and less readily absorbed forms, and selenium as sodium selenite.

Named ingredients

Cereals, Meat and Animal Derivatives (25.5% including 4% Beef), Oils and Fats, Minerals, Vegetables (0.5% Dried Peas equivalent to 4% Peas).

Against the range

Named meat: Beef 4%; Chicken 4% in the other.
Protein, dry matter: 22.3%; 22.8% on the chicken.
Ash, dry matter: 9.2%; 8.7% on the chicken.

The same recipe as the chicken with a different named meat, so a bored dog meets much the same food.

Both flavours share one formula of five broad entries: cereals, meat and animal derivatives at 25.5%, oils and fats, minerals and dried peas at 0.5%. Inside the animal block, 4% of the recipe is named as beef or chicken.

Fat sits at 9.2% of dry matter and estimated carbohydrate at 56.0% on both, which is the cereals doing the heavy lifting. Only the named meat, a point of protein and a little ash change between the bags.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

344 kcal/100g

Protein

20.5%

Fat

8.5%

Fibre

Ash

8.5%

Moisture

Dry weight

Protein

22.3%

Fat

9.2%

Fibre

3.3%

Ash

9.2%

Carbs

56%

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

30.9%

Carbs

47.5%

Veg

5.1%

Oils

10%

Other

6.5%

Pricing & size