Wellness Core

Wellness Core 95%: Lamb With Pumpkin review

Name: Wellness Core 95%: Lamb With Pumpkin
Brand: Wellness Core

78.9/100Excellent

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

78.9/100Excellent

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

Lamb

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

Lamb: hearts, livers, lungs, meat66%Organ-heavy and strong tasting; some dogs take a meal or two to come round.
Lamb broth29%
Pumpkin3.5%The one vegetable, not a cereal.
Minerals1%
Sunflower oil0.5%

Vitamin D3, zinc, manganese and iodine, with no copper on this panel.

Named ingredients

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

Against the range

Fat, dry matter: 34.0%; Highest in the range; the turkey with kale is 22.9%.
Meat: 95% lamb, one species; Two other trays also keep to one animal.

A dog that does well on a rich bowl will thrive here; one that does not needs a careful eye on portions.

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

126.7 kcal/100g

Protein

11.1%

Fat

8.5%

Fibre

0.4%

Ash

2.4%

Moisture

75%

Dry weight

Protein

44.4%

Fat

34%

Fibre

1.6%

Ash

9.6%

Carbs

10.4%

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