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Wellness Core Pate Turkey & Duck Recipe Wet Dog Food

Wet food. With the water taken out it is 55% protein and 39% fat.

  • Sold as a meal for adult dogs
  • Paté
  • 78% water
Protein is 54.5% once the water is taken out, above the wet food median of 43%. The label prints 12.0% because that figure includes the water.
PROTEIN, WATER OUT
54.5%
KCAL / SERVING
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FAT, WATER OUT
38.6%
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Wellness Core Pate Turkey & Duck Recipe Wet Dog Food

Ingredient Wiki

FIRST 5 OF 37 COMPONENTS
Turkey

Turkey

The clean flesh of the turkey, with or without skin, used fresh.
Turkey Broth

Turkey Broth

The liquid produced by simmering turkey, used to add moisture and flavor.
Pork Liver

Pork Liver

The liver of the pig, an organ meat.
Duck

Duck

The clean flesh of the duck, with or without skin, used fresh.
Chicken

Chicken

The clean flesh of the chicken, with or without skin, used fresh. Roughly 70% of its weight is water, most…
READING THE LIST

What’s in the serving

First meat
Turkey, first on the list. Named meats near the top: Turkey, Pork Liver, Duck and Chicken.
Thickeners and binders
Guar Gum, Cassia Gum and Xanthan Gum. They give the food its texture and hold pieces together. Normal in wet food; starches and flours also add carbohydrate.
Added color
None listed.
Flagged additives
None from our list.

Guaranteed
Analysis

As printed on the serving, measured “as fed”

Crude Protein (min.)
12.0%
Crude Fat (min.)
8.5%
Crude Fiber (max.)
1.0%
Moisture (max.)
78.0%

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Full Ingredient
Declaration

Exactly as the serving prints it, heaviest first

SALT DIVIDER

Turkey, Turkey Broth, Pork Liver, Duck, Chicken, Fish Oil (Preserved With Mixed Tocopherols), Ground Flaxseed, Dried Chicory Root, Guar Gum, Potassium Chloride, Taurine, Cranberries, Sunflower Oil, Choline Chloride, Cassia Gum, Xanthan Gum, Yucca Schidigera Extract, Dried Kelp, Salt*The Salt Divider. Ingredients are listed heaviest first, and a dog food needs very little salt, so everything after this point is present in an even smaller amount., Vitamin E Supplement, Zinc Proteinate, Iron Proteinate, Tricalcium Phosphate, Niacin Supplement, Thiamine Mononitrate, Copper Proteinate, Manganese Proteinate, Sodium Selenite, Vitamin A Supplement, d-Calcium Pantothenate, Vitamin B12 Supplement, Riboflavin Supplement, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Biotin, Folic Acid, Potassium Iodide, Vitamin D3 Supplement

Ingredients are listed heaviest first, and a dog food needs very little salt, so everything after the divider is present in an even smaller amount.

NUTRITION WITH THE WATER TAKEN OUT

Wet food is mostly water, so the label’s percentages look small next to kibble. Taking the water out is the only fair way to compare it with other foods.

NUTRIENT ON THE LABEL WATER OUT WET FOOD MEDIAN
PROTEIN 12.0% 54.5% 43.2%
FAT 8.5% 38.6% 22.2%
FIBER 1.0% 4.5% -
CARBS (EST.) - 0.0% -

Carbohydrate is not on any label: it is what is left after protein, fat, fiber, water and an assumed 2% ash.

AMONG 634 WET FOODS
Protein, water out
55%
Higher than 91%. Median 43%.
Water
78%
Wetter than 6%. Median 78%.
RECALL HISTORY // WELLNESS

2 FDA Recalls On Record

MAR 17, 2017
CONTAINS BEEF THYROID HORMONE

Beef Topper for Dogs Matched by brand. The notice lists the exact products and lots.

MAY 7, 2012
POTENTIAL SALMONELLA

Wellness Complete Health Super5Mix Large Breed Puppy dry dog food (made by Diamond) Matched by brand. The notice lists the exact products and lots.

None in the last three years. Older events stay on the record. See the recall log

SAME LINE

Other Flavors

Complete Health Paté Chicken & Sweet Potato 36.4% Complete Health Lamb & Sweet Potato 36.4% Complete Health Paté Puppy Chicken & Salmon 40.9% Core Paté Whitefish, Salmon & Herring 50.0%

Protein with the water taken out, read the same way.

One honest caveat. These figures are what a label will tell us: protein, calories, the top of the ingredient list, flagged additives and the brand’s recall record. They cannot tell you whether your dog will do well on this food. Allergies, gut sensitivity, age and health conditions all matter more than any of it, and none of them are printed on a serving. If your dog is thriving on a food whose figures read lower than this one, that is not a mistake, and we would not switch on our say-so.

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