Sainsbury's

Sainsbury's Nature's Goodness Pate 150g: Chicken review

Name: Sainsbury's Nature's Goodness Pate 150g: Chicken
Brand: Sainsbury's

74/100Excellent

WetAdult

Flavour

About as short as a supermarket label gets: one named animal at 60% and very little else, with no second animal anywhere. That makes each tub a true one-animal recipe, which is rare on a supermarket shelf. Both land in our Excellent band.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Elimination diets: each tub names one animal and nothing else
Owners who read a label in one go
Small dogs and cautious eaters, who finish a 150g tub in a sitting
High protein, low starch: 50.0% protein and 7.5% carbohydrate in dry matter
Grain-free homes, with potato at 2% the only starch

Worth watching

No fish oil, so omega 3 is whatever the meat brings
No vitamin A or iron on the added panel
Several tubs a day for a medium or large dog

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

How this scores

How we score

74/100Excellent

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueExcellent

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adult dogs. It reads most naturally as a full diet for a smaller dog; the label asks 750g to 1950g a day across 10kg to 30kg.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

Beef 74.0
Chicken 74.0

All two Excellent. Typical wet food: Excellent.

Level with each other and with the middle of a strong category, on ten ingredients.

What's in it

Chicken60%The only animal in the tub.
Carrot3%Easily digested, with the pigment a dog turns into vitamin A.
Potato2%Mostly for body.
Minerals
Chicory root0.08%Inulin, a soluble fibre for the gut bacteria.
Blueberry, cranberry, spinach, parsley, rosemaryTrace powders. Rosemary also slows the fat going stale.

Vitamin D3, vitamin E, zinc, manganese, copper and iodine, each dosed; no vitamin A or added iron.

Named ingredients

Chicken* (60%), Carrot* (3%), Potato* (2%), Minerals, Chicory Root* (0.08%), Cranberry Powder*, Rosemary Powder*, Spinach Powder,* Dried Parsley,* Blueberry Powder*. *Natural ingredients

Against the range

Meat: Chicken 60%; Beef 60% in the other tub
Analysis: Protein 50.0%, carbohydrate 7.5% of dry matter; Identical

The most fed meat in the country and the one dogs most often cannot take: the obvious first choice for most, one to step around for a few.

Two 150g tubs, beef or chicken, on one construction: the named animal at 60%, carrot at 3%, potato at 2%, minerals, chicory root and a trace tail of powders. Neither list has a second animal, an unnamed fat, fish oil or a category term. The analysis is identical across both.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

92 kcal/100g

Protein

10%

Fat

5.5%

Fibre

0.5%

Ash

2.5%

Moisture

80%

Dry weight

Protein

50%

Fat

27.5%

Fibre

2.5%

Ash

12.5%

Carbs

7.5%

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

21%

Carbs

Veg

4.6%

Other

12.5%

Pricing & size