James Wellbeloved Adult Dry Cat Food Chicken

Swapping a cat's food after it has always eaten one thing is a gamble most owners only take when something has gone wrong: a bad reaction, a fussy patch, a vet's suggestion to try something plainer. Chicken is usually the safest place to land, because it excludes almost nothing a cat could already be sensitive to.

This is James Wellbeloved's adult recipe built around chicken as the single named protein, at 27.5% dried chicken protein in the composition. Brown and white rice do the carbohydrate job instead of wheat, and the recipe is built to exclude beef, pork, soya, eggs, dairy and wheat altogether, which is the brand's standard hypoallergenic approach across the range.

• Composition: dried chicken protein (27.5%), brown rice (21%), white rice (16.8%)
• Protein 31.8%, fat 17.0%, crude ash 7.5%, crude fibre 1.7%
• Omega-3 0.40%, omega-6 4.0%
• Energy 402 kcal/100g
• Excludes beef, pork, soya, eggs, dairy and wheat
• 1.5kg bag

One thing worth knowing. The same composition and nutritional analysis, same chicken percentage, same protein and fat figures, is also sold under this brand in a larger bag elsewhere in our shop, badged "Chicken & Rice" rather than "Chicken". If you get through food quickly, it is worth comparing the price per kilo rather than assuming this is the only size. No feeding guide has been supplied to us for this recipe; that table is on the bag.

Who it's for: owners moving a cat onto a single-protein diet for the first time, or anyone who has found chicken sits well with their cat and wants a plainer recipe than a multi-meat food.