Pâté Chicken Entrée

Safety and recall record

We found 2 recalls for this brand line since 2016, including 1 in wet cat foods. Older and less related recalls count for less.

• 2017Moderate. Wellness 12.5 oz canned cat foods: possible foreign material. Source−3.6
• 2017Serious. Wellness 95% Beef Topper for dogs: elevated beef thyroid hormone. Source−2.4

Nutrition standards (WSAVA)

The World Small Animal Veterinary Association guidelines tell owners to ask a pet food company who formulates its food and how qualified they are, who makes it, what quality checks it runs, and whether it publishes research. If a company can't or won't answer, WSAVA says to be cautious. We use the answers each maker gave the Pet Nutrition Alliance, which puts those questions to pet food companies.

Wellness Pet Company (listed as WellPet) did not answer the Pet Nutrition Alliance survey, so there's no public answer on who formulates this food, who makes it or how it's checked. Following WSAVA's advice to be cautious, it scores 0 of 25 here. That isn't proof of a problem with the recipe, and if the company publishes its answers we'll re-grade it.

What owners say

Rated 4.2 out of 5 across 1,832 ratings on Chewy. Ratings from a small number of shoppers get pulled toward the average, so for scoring this counts as 4.23.

Value

At $67.92 for 132 oz, this costs $0.51 per oz, above the middle of the wet cat foods we graded.

Details

Grades compare products within the same category only. We don't test products ourselves or judge individual recipes, and every food here is sold as complete and balanced. Nutrition standards rate the maker against WSAVA's questions, using answers collected by the Pet Nutrition Alliance in 2022. How we grade.