Sainsbury's

Sainsbury's Complete Nutrition Moist & Meaty: Tender Meaty Chunks with Beef review

Name: Sainsbury's Complete Nutrition Moist & Meaty: Tender Meaty Chunks with Beef
Brand: Sainsbury's

25/100Poor

WetAdult

Flavour

Semi-moist chunks from the supermarket shelf, soft out of the bag and stored like a dry food. Both versions sit in our Poor band. That reading is about how little the label names, and nothing in the bag is untoward. For a dog that has stopped crunching biscuit, the texture is the whole point.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Dogs with tired teeth or a sore jaw
Owners who want dry-food convenience without the crunch: no soaking, no fridge
Any adult size, from the smallest dogs up to 50kg on the feeding guide
A dog carrying a little extra, with fat at 7.0% as fed
Picking dog food up on the weekly shop

Worth watching

Cereals lead both lists and no grain is named
Only the 4% beef or chicken is tied to a species, which rules both out for an elimination plan
Various sugars sit third on the list

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

How this scores

How we score

25/100Poor

Protein and processingPoor

Nutritional balancePoor

TransparencyGood

ValuePoor

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults of every size. Check the moisture on the bag you pick: the chicken chunks are much drier than the beef.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Beef

The score, in context

Tender Meaty Chunks 25.0
Tender Meaty Chunks 24.4

All two Poor. Typical wet food: Excellent.

The pair score almost level, held down by a list that commits to very little; transparency is the one pillar that reads Good.

What's in it

CerealsFirst on the list, no grain named, so the source can move between batches.
Meat and animal derivatives22%Unnamed animals in a legal category.
Beef4%Inside the 22%, and the only species on the label.
Various sugarsPalatability, and they keep a semi-moist chunk soft. No source given.
Derivatives of vegetable origin, including chicory extract0.1% chicoryInulin from chicory root, a prebiotic for the gut bacteria.
Oils and fats
Minerals

Calcium at 1.6%, vitamins A, D3 and E, and trace elements mostly as oxides and sulphates, with selenium as sodium selenite.

Named ingredients

Cereals, Meat and Animal Derivatives (22%, including 4% Beef), Various Sugars, Derivatives of Vegetable Origin (0.1% Chicory Extract, as a source of Prebiotic FOS), Oils and Fats, Minerals

Against the range

Named meat: 4% beef; 4% chicken on the other.
Moisture: 16.0%; 8.0% on the chicken.
Protein, dry matter: 21.4%; 19.6% on the chicken.

The softer chunk of the two, so this is the one for the sorest mouth.

Both bags read the same word for word apart from the named meat. Cereals lead, then a 22% block of meat and animal derivatives with 4% beef or chicken inside it, then various sugars. Chicory extract at 0.1% is the one named functional ingredient. Every other entry is a legal category, so the exact cereal and animal sources can change between batches.

What separates the two is water: 16.0% on the beef, 8.0% on the chicken. Both land at 312 kcal per 100g with fat at 7.0% as fed.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

312 kcal/100g

Protein

18%

Fat

Fibre

2.5%

Ash

Moisture

16%

Dry weight

Protein

21.4%

Fat

8.3%

Fibre

Ash

9.5%

Carbs

57.8%

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

22%

Carbs

70.3%

Oils

4.7%

Other

Pricing & size