Wellness Core

Wellness Core 95%: Beef With Broccoli review

Name: Wellness Core 95%: Beef With Broccoli
Brand: Wellness Core

78.4/100Excellent

WetAdultSenior

Flavour

All five trays sit in our Excellent band, and the label could hardly be more literal: 95% animal, split between named meat and organ and that animal's own broth. Each recipe then adds one vegetable and a mineral premix. Broth declared with a percentage is far more useful than water slipped in without one.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Dogs that need a single named animal. The beef, the lamb and the turkey with kale each keep to one species
Owners who want the split spelled out: 66% named meat and organ, 29% broth
Dogs kept off cereal
Rotation feeders. Five trays built to one pattern, only the animal changing
Older dogs as well as adults, on the beef tray only

Worth watching

The two mixed trays add 10% duck or goat, so a dog avoiding either needs the single-animal ones
A lot of organ meat, which is richer fare than muscle alone
Energy runs from 92 kcal per 100g on the chicken and duck to 132 on the beef, so portions move when you switch

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

How this scores

How we score

78.4/100Excellent

Protein and processingExcellent

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueExcellent

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults of every size, with the beef tray also labelled for seniors. Check the energy figure of the tray you buy before setting the portion, because the five differ widely.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult, Senior

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Beef

The score, in context

Lamb 78.9
Beef 78.4
Turkey 78.1
Turkey 78.1
Chicken 77.3

All five Excellent. Typical wet food: Excellent.

Very little separates the five trays, and a 95% meat range finishing here is a fair result.

What's in it

Beef: hearts, meat, livers, lungs66%Organ meat named. Liver brings vitamin B12, vitamin A, copper and folate.
Beef broth29%The beef's own broth, declared with a percentage.
Broccoli3.5%The only vegetable.
Minerals1%
Sunflower oil0.5%Low in saturated fat, with vitamin E of its own. A finishing touch on a tray this rich.

A short panel of vitamin D3, zinc, manganese and iodine; most of the vitamins and minerals arrive with the meat.

Carbohydrate reads 23.5% of dry matter with no starch on the list. It is subtraction arithmetic from the declared panel.

Named ingredients

95% Beef [66% (Hearts, Meat, Livers, Lungs), 29% Beef Broth], 3.5% Broccoli, 1% Minerals, 0.5% Sunflower Oil.

Against the range

Energy: 132 kcal per 100g; Richest tray; the others run down to 92.
Life stage: Adult and senior; The other four are labelled for adults only.
Sunflower oil: 0.5%; Only the lamb shares it.

The densest tray, so portions run smallest, and the one to pick for an older dog.

Every tray is 95% animal. On the beef, lamb and turkey with kale it splits 66% named meat and organ to 29% of that animal's own broth. The chicken and duck and the turkey and goat run 56% plus 29% broth, with 10% of a second animal. Hearts, livers, lungs and necks are named on the lists.

One vegetable per recipe at 3.5% or 4%, matched to the meat, and no cereal anywhere. Sunflower oil at 0.5% appears on the beef and the lamb only. The added panel is short: vitamin D3 at 200 IU and zinc at 25 mg per kilo on every tray, copper on three of the five.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

132.4 kcal/100g

Protein

11.3%

Fat

7.3%

Fibre

0.4%

Ash

2.4%

Moisture

72%

Dry weight

Protein

40.4%

Fat

26.1%

Fibre

1.4%

Ash

8.6%

Carbs

23.5%

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

95%

Veg

3.5%

Oils

0.5%

Other

Pricing & size