Sainsbury's

Sainsbury's Nature's Goodness Adult Dry: Chicken & Vegetables review

Name: Sainsbury's Nature's Goodness Adult Dry: Chicken & Vegetables
Brand: Sainsbury's

68.1/100Good

DryAdult

Flavour

Sainsbury's grown-up dry recipe, and a different animal from its Complete Nutrition bags. The meat is named at 30% in both varieties, with the dried and fresh shares written out. Both settle in our Good band, the chicken a fraction ahead.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Dogs kept off fish: the omega side is all plant
One named bird and nothing else, in the chicken bag
Dogs that do better without grain
Active adults, with fat at 15.2% of dry matter
Label readers who want meal and fresh meat as separate figures

Worth watching

Chicken fat and chicken gravy in the lamb bag, so it will not clear a dog kept off chicken
No moisture declared on either pack
High energy on both, so a quiet dog wants the smaller end of the guide

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

How this scores

How we score

68.1/100Good

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceAverage

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults of every size. The pack guides run from about 165 to 385 grams a day for dogs of 10kg to 30kg, so let your dog's shape settle where in that span it belongs.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

Chicken 68.1
Lamb 63.5

All two Good. Typical dry food: Good.

Naming lifts both bags, and the chicken noses ahead because more of its meat arrives as meal.

What's in it

Chicken meal22%Dried before it goes in, so it survives into the kibble.
Freshly prepared chicken8%Its water cooks off.
Sweet potato, potatoWhere the cereal would be.
Dried peas6%
Chicken fat, chicken gravySame bird, so the recipe stays single species.
Dried beet pulpThe fibre.
Linseed2%Plant omega 3. Give a coat a few weeks before judging.
Minerals, yeast products0.2% on the yeastPrebiotic MOS from the yeast cell wall.
Cranberry, blueberry, marigold, turmeric, spearmintA trace-level flourish.

Minerals as oxides and sulphates, with selenium as sodium selenite, the mineral salt.

Named ingredients

Chicken (30%) (Chicken Meal 22%, Freshly Prepared Chicken* 8%), Sweet Potato*, Potato*, Dried Peas* (6%), Chicken Fat*, Dried Beet Pulp*, Chicken Gravy, Linseed* (2%), Minerals, Yeast Products (0.2%, as a source of Prebiotic MOS), Dried Cranberry*, Dried Blueberry*, Marigold Flower*, Turmeric*, Dried Spearmint. *Natural ingredients

Against the range

Meat: 30%: 22% meal, 8% fresh; Lamb 30%: 18% meal, 12% fresh
Other animals: None; The lamb carries chicken fat and gravy
Energy: 376 kcal per 100g; 366 on the lamb

A genuinely single species bag for a dog whose diet is built around one bird.

Both bags name their meat at 30%, with the meal and freshly prepared shares printed separately, and both swap grain for sweet potato, potato and dried peas. Linseed at 2% is the omega source, so there is no fish anywhere. Chicken fat and chicken gravy run through both recipes. Neither pack declares its moisture, so the dry matter figures assume 8%.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

376 kcal/100g

Protein

24%

Fat

14%

Fibre

Ash

Dry weight

Protein

26.1%

Fat

15.2%

Fibre

3.3%

Ash

7.6%

Carbs

47.8%

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

34.5%

Carbs

54.2%

Oils

5.3%

Other

Pricing & size