Sainsbury's

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

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

65/100Good

WetPuppy

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

65/100Good

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

Puppy

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

Chicken29%
Beef14%
Dried carrot1%Equivalent to 8.5% carrot.
Linseed oil0.5%A good plant source of omega 3, and only in this pouch.
Minerals, potato starchThe starch is another puppy-only entry.
Chicory root powder0.08%Inulin, a soluble fibre for the gut bacteria.
Blueberry, cranberry and spinach powders, parsley0.01% each

A short, dosed panel: vitamin D3, vitamin E, iodine and zinc, each with a figure per kilo.

Calcium at 1.58% of dry matter sits inside what a growing dog needs, large breeds included.

Named ingredients

Chicken* (29%), Beef*(14%), Dried Carrot* (1%, equivalent to 8.5% Carrots), Linseed Oil (0.5%), Minerals, Potato Starch*, Chicory Root Powder* (0.08%), Blueberry Powder* (0.01%), Cranberry Powder*(0.01%), Spinach Powder*(0.01%), Parsley*(0.01%). *Natural Ingredients

Against the range

Fat, dry matter: 36.8%; 33.3% adult, 27.8% senior
Extras: Linseed oil and potato starch; Neither appears in the other two
Energy: About 93 kcal per 100g, our estimate; Adult 87, printed; senior about 79

The richest of the three, shaped for a growing dog.

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

92.8 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

Fat

Fibre

0.5%

Ash

Moisture

81%

Dry weight

Protein

42.1%

Fat

36.8%

Fibre

2.6%

Ash

10.5%

Carbs

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

33.2%

Carbs

12.1%

Veg

1.1%

Oils

0.5%

Other

10.1%