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Sainsbury's Complete Nutrition Puppy Dry review

Name: Sainsbury's Complete Nutrition Puppy Dry
Brand: Sainsbury's

33.2/100Average

DryPuppy

A plain own-label growth kibble, finishing in our Average band. The whole recipe runs to four lines, and the naming is where it gives least away. The vitamin and trace mineral panel behind it is fully declared and properly done.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Owners who want a complete puppy food with nothing unexpected on a four-line list
Households that like the micronutrients printed, from vitamin A at 17000 IU per kg to vitamin D3 at 1500 IU
Pups who do well on a lighter fat level, at 10.9% of dry matter
Pups already settled on rice, the one cereal named, at 4%

Worth watching

Beyond 4% chicken the label never says which animals are in the bag
Cereals and oils and fats are named only as groups, which leaves a grain-sensitive pup or an exclusion diet with nothing to check
No calcium figure on a bag listed for every size of puppy

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

How this scores

How we score

33.2/100Average

Protein and processingPoor

Nutritional balanceAverage

TransparencyAverage

ValueAverage

The details

Dog fit

Listed for puppies of every size. The label's guide spans 40 to 725 grams a day, so follow the pack chart by age and expected adult size, and for a large breed ask Sainsbury's for the calcium figure first.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Puppy

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

Sainsbury's Complete Nutrition Puppy Dry 33.2

All one Average. Typical dry food: Good.

A recipe written in categories gives the scoring little to grip, and protein and processing reads Poor as a result.

What's in it

Cereals4% riceFirst on the list, so grain outweighs everything else. Only the rice is identified; the term can cover wheat, maize, oats or barley.
Meat and animal derivatives31%, including 4% chickenWarm-blooded land animals, species not named beyond the chicken.
Oils and fatsNeither plant nor animal named.
Minerals

Vitamins A, D3 and E with zinc, iron, manganese, copper, iodine and selenium, each dosed; the selenium is sodium selenite, the older and less readily absorbed form.

No calcium figure printed. For a puppy heading for a big adult frame, ask Sainsbury's for it.

Moisture is not declared, so dry-matter figures here assume 8%.

Named ingredients

Cereals (4% Rice), Meat and Animal Derivatives (31% including 4% Chicken), Oils and Fats, Minerals.

Against the range

Four lines in all: cereals with 4% rice named, meat and animal derivatives at 31% with 4% chicken inside it, oils and fats, and minerals. Moisture and calcium are not declared, so the dry-matter figures assume 8% moisture for a kibble.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

358 kcal/100g

Protein

25%

Fat

10%

Fibre

Ash

Dry weight

Protein

27.2%

Fat

10.9%

Fibre

3.3%

Ash

7.6%

Carbs

51%

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

32.5%

Carbs

50%

Oils

10.6%

Other

6.9%

Pricing & size