Sainsbury's

Sainsbury's Nature's Goodness Cans: Beef with Chicken in Jelly review

Name: Sainsbury's Nature's Goodness Cans: Beef with Chicken in Jelly
Brand: Sainsbury's

68.7/100Good

WetAdult

Flavour

Half of every tin is named meat and the jelly or gravy carries the rest. The smaller turkey tin reaches our Excellent band, while the beef and chicken tin and the larger turkey tin read Good. All three are grain free, and the animal share is printed on each label.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Dogs that eat better with something to lick around the meat
Owners who want the animal share quantified on the tin
A lighter bowl: these carry fewer calories per 100g than the typical adult wet food
Dogs kept away from cereal. No grain on any of the three labels
Bigger dogs and hearty eaters, with full 390g and 400g tins
Dogs that never drink quite enough, as about four fifths of every tin is moisture

Worth watching

Salmon oil on all three lists, so the turkey tins are not fish free
Caramelised sugar and D-Xylose on the larger turkey tin only
The 8% fruit and vegetables is rebuilt from 0.93% dried, so the visible veg is smaller than the headline

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

How this scores

How we score

68.7/100Good

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults of every size. A 15kg dog needs two to three tins a day, so check how many fit your week before ordering.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

Turkey in Gravy 70.9
Beef 68.7
Turkey in Gravy (6 x 400g) 63.5

Three recipes across Excellent and Good. Typical wet food: Excellent.

Competent everyday tins held back by construction: half named meat, with much of the rest water, jelly or gravy.

What's in it

Beef26%
Chicken24%Two animals in one tin, both quantified.
Fruit and vegetables: dried cranberries, green beans, carrot8%, from 0.93% driedCranberry is the eye-catching name, but at this level all three are a flourish.
Minerals
Sunflower oil, salmon oil, flaxseed oil0.13%, 0.06%, 0.06%A little omega 3 between the salmon and flaxseed. The salmon oil matters on a fish-free plan.
Dried kelp, dried chicory root, dried parsleychicory 0.02%
Plant and citrus extracts0.01%

Calcium, vitamins A, D3 and E, and zinc, iron and manganese, each dosed in print.

The energy figure is our estimate, not printed on the label.

Named ingredients

Beef 26%, Chicken 24%, Fruit and Vegetables 8% (from 0.93% Dried Cranberries, Green Beans and Carrot), Minerals, *Sunflower Oil 0.13%, *Salmon Oil 0.06%, *Flaxseed Oil 0.06%, Dried Kelp, Dried Chicory Root 0.02%, Dried Parsley, Plant and Citrus Extracts 0.01%, *Sources of Omega 3 and 6

Against the range

Meat: Beef 26%, chicken 24%; Turkey 50% in the other two.
Moisture: 81.0%; The wettest tin in the range.
Energy: 81 kcal per 100g, estimated; 89 on the turkey tins.
Carbohydrate, dry matter: 15.8%; 3.5% on the turkey tins.

The only tin here with two animals, and the one where portions run largest.

Every tin is half named meat: beef at 26% with chicken at 24% in one, turkey at 50% in the other two. No grain appears on any label, and salmon oil sits on all three. Fruit and vegetables are rebuilt from small dried amounts, so they are a flourish more than a working share.

The larger turkey tin runs a different list behind the meat, with potato starch as a carrier and caramelised sugar, D-Xylose and yucca powder at the tail. Copper joins its added minerals.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

81 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

Fat

Fibre

0.5%

Ash

2.5%

Moisture

81%

Dry weight

Protein

42.1%

Fat

26.3%

Fibre

2.6%

Ash

13.2%

Carbs

15.8%

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

50%

Added water

25%

Veg

13.3%

Oils

0.2%

Other

11.5%

Pricing & size