Wellness Core

Wellness Core 95%: Chicken & Duck With Carrots review

Name: Wellness Core 95%: Chicken & Duck With Carrots
Brand: Wellness Core

77.3/100Excellent

WetAdult

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

77.3/100Excellent

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

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Chicken

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

Chicken: hearts, livers, meat, necks, chicken fat56%Named organ meat, and a named fat.
Chicken broth29%
Duck: hearts, necks10%A second animal, so this tray is not single-protein.
Carrots4%The one vegetable.
Minerals1%

Vitamin D3, zinc, manganese, copper and iodine, a short dosed panel.

Duck at 10% alongside the chicken. A dog avoiding duck needs a single-animal tray.

Named ingredients

85% Chicken [56% (Hearts, Livers, Meat, Necks, Chicken Fat), 29% Chicken Broth], 10% Duck [Hearts, Necks], 4% Carrots, 1% Minerals.

Against the range

Energy: 92 kcal per 100g; Least dense of the five; the beef reaches 132.
Protein, dry matter: 50.5%; Highest of the two mixed trays.
Other animals on the label: Duck at 10%; The turkey and goat is the other mixed tray.

The lightest tray in the range, which means the biggest bowl.

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

91.5 kcal/100g

Protein

10.1%

Fat

5.2%

Fibre

0.4%

Ash

2.5%

Moisture

80%

Dry weight

Protein

50.5%

Fat

26%

Fibre

Ash

12.5%

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

95%

Veg

Other

Pricing & size