Sainsbury's

Sainsbury's Nature's Goodness Meaty Selection Pouches: Adult in Jelly review

Name: Sainsbury's Nature's Goodness Meaty Selection Pouches: Adult in Jelly
Brand: Sainsbury's

65.3/100Good

WetAdult

Flavour

One recipe run across three ages, and it barely moves between them. Chicken and beef in jelly fill a 100g pouch, both declared with a percentage, and nothing on any list is a cereal. The puppy and senior pouches each add one small thing for their dog.

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Our view

Likely to suit

A household with a puppy, an adult and an older dog, all eating the same way
Small dogs and light eaters: one pouch is one serving, nothing to cover and refrigerate
Owners who want the meat quantified, chicken printed between 27% and 29% and beef between 14% and 16%
Older dogs, with glucosamine at 0.012% and chondroitin sulphate at 0.002% written into the senior recipe
A dog kept off grain

Worth watching

Chicken and beef in every pouch, so neither can be avoided here
The senior joint pair is a small printed amount, not a treatment dose. A dog with diagnosed joint disease stays on the vet's prescription
A medium or large dog gets through a lot of 100g pouches as a full diet

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

How this scores

How we score

65.3/100Good

Protein and processingAverage

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

The adult and senior pouches are listed for every size, the puppy pouch for growing dogs. Picture the daily pouch count for your dog's weight before committing to it as the whole diet.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

Adult in Jelly 65.3
Puppy in Jelly 65.0
Senior in Jelly 64.7

All three Good. Typical wet food: Excellent.

Three pouches bunched tightly together, a solid everyday recipe held back mainly by how little sits in a 100g serving.

What's in it

Chicken27%Declared, not described.
Beef16%The highest beef share of the three.
Dried carrot1%Equivalent to 8.5% carrot before drying.
Minerals
Chicory root powder0.08%The one plant with a job: its inulin feeds the gut's own bacteria.
Blueberry, cranberry and spinach powders, parsley

The label opens a nutritional additives panel but prints nothing under it.

Named ingredients

Chicken* (27%), Beef (16%), Dried Carrot* (1%, Equivalent to 8.5% Carrots), Minerals, Chicory Root Powder* (0.08%), Blueberry Powder*, Cranberry Powder*, Spinach Powder*, Parsley*, *Natural ingredients

Against the range

Meat: Chicken 27%, beef 16%; Chicken 29%, beef 14% in the other two
Added oil: None; Linseed oil at 0.5% in the puppy pouch
Energy: 87 kcal per 100g, printed; The puppy and senior figures are our estimates

The plainest list of the three, and the only one whose calories come off the label.

Chicken leads every list, at 27% or 29%, with beef behind it at 16% or 14%, so every pouch carries both. Dried carrot at 1% rebuilds to 8.5% carrot, then come chicory root and a run of berry and leaf powders at tiny amounts. No cereal appears on any of the three.

Protein converts to between 42.1% and 47.2% of dry matter, a strong reading for food this wet. What varies is the tail: linseed oil and potato starch in the puppy pouch, glucosamine and chondroitin in the senior.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

87 kcal/100g

Protein

Fat

Fibre

0.5%

Ash

Moisture

82%

Dry weight

Protein

44.4%

Fat

33.3%

Fibre

2.8%

Ash

11.1%

Carbs

8.4%

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

43%

Added water

33.6%

Veg

3.5%

Other

20%

Pricing & size