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Wellness Small Breed Petite Entrees Casserole Roasted Lamb, Peas & White Sweet Potatoes Review

Wellness Canned Dog Food Review

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Ingredient Analysis

When evaluating a dog food, the first five ingredients can tell you a lot about the quality of a product as they make up the bulk of the product. Ideally, you're looking for quality protein sources with a minimum of cheap starches, fillers or by-products. Continuing down the ingredient list, look for ingredients that resemble real food with a minimal number of unpronounceable chemicals - the same as you would for human food.

Wellness Small Breed Petite Entrees Casserole Roasted Lamb, Peas & White Sweet Potatoes includes the following:

Note - a bolded ingredient in the above tables indicates it is one of the first five ingredients listed by the product manufacturer.

In this case, Wellness Small Breed Petite Entrees Casserole Roasted Lamb, Peas & White Sweet Potatoes's most plentiful ingredient listed is chicken, which is considered a quality protein source. It also contains chicken liver and lamb as additional quality protein sources.

Additionally, it's worth noting that this product does not list either by-products nor bulk-adding fillers within its top ingredients. By-products are considered inferior, lesser quality ingredients. Common fillers typically used to add bulk to the product are not required in your dog's diet. Together, their combined absence may be indicative of a higher quality product.

Please also be aware that this product contains guar gum and carrageenan, which are additives that some experts claim may be possible contributors to certain medical conditions in dogs.

Allergen alert: This product contains lamb which may be problematic for dogs who suffer from lamb food allergies.

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Nutritional Analysis*

Compared to the other 1160 dog foods in our database, Wellness Small Breed Petite Entrees Casserole Roasted Lamb, Peas & White Sweet Potatoes has:

• significantly less protein than average
• significantly more carbohydrates than average
• more fat than average
• less fiber than average

In general, dogs have been shown to do better with a higher protein, medium fat, lower carb diet with sufficient moisture. However, specialty diets as recommended by your veterinarian may prioritize a different nutritional breakdown.

Calorie Breakdown

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All the product information on this page is based on data collected from the manufacturer's product website as retrieved on April 30, 2017.

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Ingredients

Ingredients as published by the dog food manufacturer:

Chicken, Chicken Broth, Chicken Liver, Lamb, Peas, White Sweet Potatoes, Tapioca Starch, Natural Flavor, Tricalcium Phosphate, Guar Gum, Potassium Chloride, Salt, Carrageenan, Magnesium Sulfate, Minerals [Ferrous Glycine Complex, Zinc Glycine Complex, Manganese Glycine Complex, Copper Glycine Complex, Sodium Selenite, Potassium Iodide], Vitamins [Vitamin E Supplement, Niacin, Vitamin A Supplement, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, d-Calcium Pantothenate, Riboflavin Supplement, Folic Acid, Vitamin B12 Supplement, Vitamin D3 Supplement, Biotin], Thiamine Mononitrate, Zinc Oxide.

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*Note that some nutritional percentages reported are only estimated values, and are indicated as such as (est). Each dog food manufacturer is required by law to publish a Guaranteed Analysis, which defines each product's maximum values of fiber, moisture and ash in addition to the minimum values of protein and fat contained within. Exact nutritional percentages are not available and hence all calculated values (including carbohydrate percentages and calorie amounts) are determined using these minimum and maximum published values and therefore may differ from actual values.

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