James Wellbeloved Adult Dry Dog Food Lamb Rice

A lot of dogs never get a formal food-allergy diagnosis - an owner just notices a pattern and tries switching the protein at home to see if it helps, informally. That only tells you anything useful if the new food genuinely has one protein in it, which is the whole point of James Wellbeloved's single-source approach.

Dried lamb protein makes up 19% of the recipe here, with barley, naked oats, brown and white rice at 13% each, poultry fat, whole linseed at 3.9% and lamb gravy. As with the rest of the range, it excludes beef, pork, soya, eggs, dairy and wheat. Protein comes out at 22.7%, fat at 11.6%, crude ash at 5.9% and crude fibre at 3.0%, with omega-3 at 1.2% and energy at 364 kcal per 100g.

• Single named animal protein: dried lamb (19%)
• Protein 22.7%, fat 11.6%, crude ash 5.9%, crude fibre 3.0%
• Excludes beef, pork, soya, eggs, dairy and wheat
• Omega-3 at 1.2%, omega-6 at 3.0%
• 15kg bag

On testing an elimination diet properly. If you are trying this as a home test for a suspected food sensitivity, it only works as a clean test if nothing else changes at the same time - same treats, same table scraps habits - for long enough to see a result, which a vet can advise on. Switching food alone while everything else stays the same is what makes the test meaningful.

Who it's for: owners trying lamb as a new protein for a dog that has reacted to more common meats, or simply wanting a genuinely single-source recipe as a matter of routine.