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Sainsbury's Nature's Goodness Small Dog Dry review

Name: Sainsbury's Nature's Goodness Small Dog Dry
Brand: Sainsbury's

67/100Good

DryAdult

A grain-free chicken kibble sized for little dogs, finishing in our Good band. Its quiet achievement is keeping to one animal: chicken at 32%, with nothing else from an animal anywhere on the label. Sweet potato and potato carry the starch.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Working out whether chicken is the problem, with no other animal to muddy the answer
Small breed dogs, with kibble and recipe built for small mouths
Dogs better off without cereal: no wheat, maize, rice or barley
Fish-free homes, as there is no marine ingredient
Owners who want the prebiotic named. Yeast products at 0.2% are the MOS source

Worth watching

All the animal protein is chicken, which rules it out for a chicken-sensitive dog
Moisture undeclared, so our dry matter figures assume 8%
Minerals as oxides and sulphates and selenium as selenite, a little less readily absorbed

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

How this scores

How we score

67/100Good

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceAverage

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Listed for small breed adults. At 379 kcal per 100g a small dog reaches its allowance on a slightly smaller pile than usual, so portion by the waistline.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Small

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

Sainsbury's Nature's Goodness Small Dog Dry 67.0

All one Good. Typical dry food: Good.

Lower starch than the typical dry food and printed mineral doses pull upwards, and a respectable but not commanding chicken figure holds it in the middle.

What's in it

Chicken meal24%Already dried, so this is the share that carries protein into the kibble.
Freshly prepared chicken8%Mostly water, which the oven takes away.
Sweet potato, potatoThe binding, in place of cereal.
Dried peas6%
Chicken fat, chicken gravyBoth carry the species name.
Dried beet pulpA fair fibre for digestive steadiness.
Linseed2%Plant omega 3, which a dog converts slowly, so give a coat a few weeks.
Minerals, yeast products0.2% for the yeastDeclared as the prebiotic MOS.
Cranberry, blueberry, marigold flower, turmeric, spearmintA flourish at small quantities.

Every vitamin and mineral dosed, zinc at 100 mg and iron at 60 mg per kilo among them, in oxide and sulphate forms.

Named ingredients

Chicken (32%) (Chicken Meal 24%, Freshly Prepared Chicken 8%), Sweet Potato, Potato, Dried Peas (6%), Chicken Fat, Dried Beet Pulp, Chicken Gravy, Linseed (2%), Minerals, Yeast Products (0.2%, as a source of Prebiotic MOS), Dried Cranberry, Dried Blueberry, Marigold Flower, Turmeric, Dried Spearmint. Natural ingredients

Against the range

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

379 kcal/100g

Protein

26.5%

Fat

15.5%

Fibre

Ash

8.5%

Dry weight

Protein

28.8%

Fat

16.8%

Fibre

3.3%

Ash

9.2%

Carbs

41.9%

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

36.3%

Carbs

52.6%

Oils

5.1%

Other

5.9%

Pricing & size