James Wellbeloved Dog Adult – Lamb & Rice 7.5kg

James Wellbeloved Adult Lamb & Rice Dry Dog Food – 7.5kg

Adult Lamb & Rice is the recipe James Wellbeloved are best known for, and the one owners tend to arrive at when a dog has started scratching or passing loose motions on a supermarket food. It is built on dried lamb protein at 19%, with barley, naked oats, and brown and white rice at 13% each, and it deliberately leaves out beef, pork, soya, eggs, dairy and wheat.

The analysis James Wellbeloved publish for it is 22.7% protein and 11.6% fat, with 3.0% crude fibre, 5.9% crude ash and 364 kcal per 100g. That is a moderate everyday adult food rather than a working or performance one. Whole linseed at 3.9% and fish oil supply the omega fatty acids, and chicory extract at 0.1% is in there for the gut rather than the label.

Performance & Benefits

• Dried lamb protein at 19% as the named animal protein, with lamb gravy for palatability.
• Excludes beef, pork, soya, eggs, dairy and wheat — the six James Wellbeloved name as the common allergens.
• 22.7% protein, 11.6% fat and 364 kcal per 100g: enough for a normally active adult dog without piling weight on.
• Whole linseed at 3.9% and fish oil, giving declared omega-3 of 1.2% and omega-6 of 3.0%.
• Sugar beet pulp and chicory extract at 0.1% for digestion, with seaweed at 0.5%.
• Vitamin E at 165mg per kg.

Suitable For

• Adult dogs of any breed size on ordinary daily exercise.
• Dogs that have not done well on a beef, wheat or dairy-based food.
• Owners who want one named meat on the ingredient list rather than "meat and animal derivatives".
• Households feeding a single dry food long term rather than rotating.
• Not a puppy, senior or grain-free diet — James Wellbeloved make separate recipes for each of those, including a lamb and rice puppy food.

Feeding

• Serve dry, and split the daily amount across two meals for an adult dog.
• James Wellbeloved publish no feeding table on their product page; the daily amounts for your dog's bodyweight are printed on the bag.
• Change over gradually across about a week, mixing an increasing share into the current food.
• Adjust by roughly 10% either way on body condition rather than sticking rigidly to the printed figure.
• Fresh drinking water available at all times.

Composition & Analysis

• Composition: dried lamb protein (19%), barley, naked oats, brown rice (13%), white rice (13%), poultry fat, whole linseed (3.9%), pea protein, lamb gravy, sugar beet pulp, alfalfa meal, minerals, seaweed (0.5%), fish oil, chicory extract (0.1%), yucca extract (0.02%).
• Analysis: protein 22.7%, fat content 11.6%, crude ash 5.9%, crude fibre 3.0%, omega-3 1.2%, omega-6 3.0%, vitamin E 165mg per kg, energy 364 kcal per 100g.
• This page previously carried a different composition and a different analysis — lamb meal, tomato pomace, green tea and pomegranate extracts, at 24.5% protein. Those belong to a non-UK James Wellbeloved recipe and have been taken off.
• James Wellbeloved currently list this recipe in 2kg, 8kg, 12kg and 15kg bags; the 7.5kg bag on this page is an older pack size.

Care & Caution

• Hypoallergenic does not mean single-protein. This recipe also contains poultry fat, fish oil and pea protein, so it is not an exclusion diet for a dog reacting to poultry, fish or legumes.
• A genuine food elimination trial belongs with your vet, on a diet chosen for that purpose. Swapping bags is not the same thing and can muddy a diagnosis.
• If a dog's skin or gut trouble has not settled after about eight weeks on one consistent diet, it needs investigating rather than another change of food.