Sainsbury's

Sainsbury's Complete Nutrition Small Dog Dry review

Name: Sainsbury's Complete Nutrition Small Dog Dry
Brand: Sainsbury's

30/100Poor

DryAdult

A Poor-band small-dog kibble, held there by a panel written almost entirely in categories. Its one step up on the rest of the Sainsbury's line is the animal share: meat and animal derivatives at 31.5%, with protein converting to 26.1% of dry matter. Otherwise it is cereals as the base and a dried pea entry as the vegetable.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Small adult dogs, the size the recipe and portions are written around
An animal share on the fuller side, at 31.5% of the recipe
Dogs long settled on a cereal kibble with nothing suggesting a change
Buying the dog's food with the weekly shop

Worth watching

Chicken at 4% is the only named part of the animal content
Cereals with no grain named, so a suspected grain sensitivity cannot be ruled in or out
Ash at 9.8% of dry matter, a fair mineral load in a small dog's small portion

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

How this scores

How we score

30/100Poor

Protein and processingPoor

Nutritional balanceAverage

TransparencyAverage

ValuePoor

The details

Dog fit

Listed for small adult dogs. No moisture figure is printed, so treat the dry-matter numbers as resting on the 8% a kibble normally holds, and feed to the waistline.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Small

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

Sainsbury's Complete Nutrition Small Dog Dry 30.0

All one Poor. Typical dry food: Good.

The analysis does better than the rest of this line, and a list written almost entirely in categories keeps the score down.

What's in it

CerealsThe base and the bulk. With no grain named, the source can change between runs without a word changing on the pack.
Meat and animal derivatives31.5%Covers material of every grade. The figure tells you how much, not what.
Chicken4%The only named animal.
Oils and fatsSource not given.
Minerals
Vegetables: dried peas0.5%Equivalent to 4% fresh peas. A garnish at this level.

Vitamins A, D3 and E are printed, with minerals as oxides and sulphates and selenium as sodium selenite, the mineral salt form.

No moisture figure on the pack. The dry-matter column assumes the 8% a kibble normally holds.

Named ingredients

Cereals, Meat and Animal Derivatives (31.5% including 4% Chicken), Oils and Fats, Minerals, Vegetables (0.5% Dried Peas equivalent to 4% Peas).

Against the range

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

350 kcal/100g

Protein

24%

Fat

10%

Fibre

Ash

Dry weight

Protein

26.1%

Fat

10.9%

Fibre

3.3%

Ash

9.8%

Carbs

49.9%

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