James Wellbeloved Adult Dog Lamb & Rice

Switching an adult dog's food because of a skin or digestive problem usually means starting from scratch on trust — you are asking an owner to believe that this bag really does contain what it says and nothing else. A single named protein is the part of that promise you can actually check against the label.

Dried lamb protein is the largest named ingredient at 19%, ahead of barley, naked oats, and brown and white rice. It is a complete food for adult dogs, and James Wellbeloved's stated approach across the range is to exclude beef, pork, soya, eggs, dairy and wheat.

• Complete food for adult dogs, built on lamb as the named protein
• Protein 22.7%, fat 11.6%, crude ash 5.9%, crude fibre 3.0%
• Omega-3 at 1.2%, omega-6 at 3.0%
• Energy 364 kcal per 100g
• Excludes beef, pork, soya, eggs, dairy and wheat
• 2KG bag

On the ingredient order. Lamb protein at 19% is the largest single named ingredient, but only just — barley, oats and rice between them make up more of the bag by weight than the lamb does. That is normal for a kibble built around one protein rather than a majority-meat recipe, but it is worth knowing if "mostly lamb" is what you pictured. No feeding chart is published on the pages we can access, so use the guide on the bag.

Who it's for: owners of an adult dog on an elimination diet, or anyone whose vet has recommended a single, well-established protein like lamb rather than something more unusual.