Sainsbury's

Sainsbury's Nature's Goodness Adult Wet Trays: Terrine with Beef & Vegetables review

Name: Sainsbury's Nature's Goodness Adult Wet Trays: Terrine with Beef & Vegetables
Brand: Sainsbury's

71.2/100Excellent

WetAdult

Flavour

A supermarket terrine that prints more of its recipe than most: one named animal at 60% on every tray, potato and a little veg behind it. All three land in our Excellent band. The turkey is a shade in front and the beef trails, mostly on carbohydrate.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Owners who want the animal named and quantified on the front
A dog that does better away from cereal. Potato carries the starch
Rotating red meat and poultry, as only the animal changes
A dog casual about the water bowl, with three quarters of each tray moisture
Adults of every build, toy to giant

Worth watching

Salmon oil at 0.3% on all three, for a household strictly avoiding fish
The beef tray carries the most carbohydrate, an estimated 26.0% of dry matter
Chicken and turkey give their plant side as vegetables, with the detail in a bracket

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

How this scores

How we score

71.2/100Excellent

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceExcellent

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueExcellent

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adult dogs of every size. Calcium runs 2.4% to 3.2% of dry matter, generous for maintenance, so these trays are for grown dogs and not for a growing pup.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Beef

The score, in context

Terrine 79.0
Terrine 78.8
Terrine 71.2

All three Excellent. Typical wet food: Excellent.

All three hold the middle of a strong wet shelf, with the turkey and chicken well clear of the beef.

What's in it

Beef60%Named and quantified, no category term.
Dried potato4.9%Equal to 20% potato before drying.
Minerals
Dried vegetables1.8%Equal to 10% carrots and peas.
Potato starchHolds the terrine together. Beef tray only.
Sunflower oil, salmon oil0.75%, 0.3%The salmon oil is where most of the omega 3 comes from.
D-Xylose
Dried tomato, dried kelp, dried chicory rootChicory, at 0.06%, brings inulin for gut bacteria.
Dried basil, plant and citrus extracts, yucca powder

Vitamins A, D3 and E with zinc, iron and manganese, each with a figure beside it.

The only tray with potato starch, D-Xylose and yucca powder.

Named ingredients

Beef 60%, Dried Potato 4.9% (equivalent to 20% Potato), Minerals, Dried Vegetables 1.8% (equivalent to 10% Carrots and Peas), Potato Starch, *Sunflower Oil 0.75%, *Salmon Oil 0.3%, D-Xylose, Dried Tomato, Dried Kelp, Dried Chicory Root 0.06%, Dried Basil, *Plant and Citrus Extracts 0.01%, Yucca Powder. *Source of Omega 3 and Omega 6.

Against the range

Carbohydrate, dry matter: 26.0%; Highest; the turkey is 8.0%.
Energy: 107 kcal per 100g; Lightest; chicken 114, turkey 120.
Oil: Sunflower; Rapeseed on the other two.

The lightest tray and the starchiest, which is why it trails the other two on our scoring.

Every tray opens on one named animal at 60%: beef, chicken or turkey. Potato carries most of the rest, declared as 20% rebuilt from dried potato, with peas and carrots at 10%. Each recipe adds a small plant oil and salmon oil at 0.3% for omega 3, and every one declares its moisture at 75%.

What varies is small. The beef tray swaps rapeseed oil for sunflower and alone adds potato starch, D-Xylose and yucca powder. Fat runs from 22% to 36.0% of dry matter and the carbohydrate estimate from 8.0% to 26.0%.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

107 kcal/100g

Protein

Fat

5.5%

Fibre

0.5%

Ash

3.5%

Moisture

75%

Dry weight

Protein

36%

Fat

22%

Fibre

Ash

14%

Carbs

26%

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

60%

Added water

19.3%

Carbs

9.9%

Veg

3.6%

Oils

1.1%

Other

6.2%