Wholesome Essentials Adult Indoor Chicken & Brown Rice Recipe
Nutro Wholesome Essentials Adult Indoor Chicken & Brown Rice Recipe is a dry adult cat food with grains. Its first ingredients are chicken, chicken meal and brewers rice. It has an Ingredients score of 62/100, a Nutrition score of 9.1/10 and nothing on our Avoid List. The lowest price we found is $3.21/lb (14 lb bag at Chewy).
Label checked Oct 26, 2026 · Price checked Oct 27, 2026
How It Scores
The first 5 ingredients count for 70%, the rest for 30%.
- Chicken
- 5 / 5
- Named animal protein
- Chicken Meal
- 5 / 5
- Named animal protein
- Brewers Rice
- 1 / 5
- Starch or refined grain
- Pea Protein
- 2 / 5
- Legume
- Whole Grain Brown Rice
- 2 / 5
- Grain, potato or other carb source
- Other ingredients
- 3.3 / 5
- Average of the other 35 ingredients
Avoid List
0The label lists none of the additives we count.
The number of unwanted additives on the label, counted separately from the two scores: 0 is best. How we score
Adult targets. Values as listed on the label.
- Protein 33%
- 4.6 / 5
- Full points between 35% and 45%
- Fat 14%
- 4.7 / 5
- Full points between 15% and 22%
- Carbohydrates 29%
- 4.2 / 5
- Full points between 15% and 25%. Our estimate: the label does not list ash.
- Fiber 7%
- not scored
- Shown for information.
What Is in It
Dry matter means the food with the water taken out. It lets you compare foods with different moisture fairly.
| On the label | Dry matter | |
|---|---|---|
| Protein (min) | 33% | 36.7% |
| Fat (min) | 14% | 15.6% |
| Fiber (max) | 7% | 7.8% |
| Ash | not listed | - |
| Carbohydrates (estimate) | 29% | 32.2% |
| Moisture (max) | 10% | - |
| Calories | 3,559 kcal/kg · 361 kcal/cup | |
Label numbers are limits, not exact amounts: protein and fat are minimums, fiber and moisture are maximums.
Labels do not list carbohydrates, and this one does not list ash either. We estimate carbohydrates by assuming 7% ash, a typical value for dry cat food, and subtracting everything else from 100.
First 5 Ingredients
Ingredients are listed by weight, heaviest first. The first few usually make up most of the food.
All Ingredients (Label Order)
Chicken, Chicken Meal, Brewers Rice, Pea Protein, Whole Grain Brown Rice, Chicken Fat (preserved with Mixed Tocopherols), Dehydrated Alfalfa Meal, Potato Protein, Dried Plain Beet Pulp, Whole Flaxseed, Natural Flavor, Oat Fiber, Soybean Oil (preserved with Mixed Tocopherols), Potassium Chloride, Choline Chloride, Salt, Taurine, DL-Methionine, Citric Acid (preservative), Mixed Tocopherols (preservative), Vitamin E Supplement, Zinc Oxide, Manganese Sulfate, Calcium Carbonate, Ferrous Sulfate, Niacin Supplement, L-Ascorbyl-2-Polyphosphate (source of Vitamin C), Copper Sulfate, D-Calcium Pantothenate, Vitamin A Supplement, Biotin, Thiamine Mononitrate (Vitamin B1), Pyridoxine Hydrochloride (Vitamin B6), Vitamin B12 Supplement, Sodium Selenite, Vitamin D3 Supplement, Riboflavin Supplement (Vitamin B2), Folic Acid, Potassium Iodide, Rosemary Extract
Estimated Monthly Cost
By your cat's weight, using the maker's daily amount and the cheapest bag. Your cat may eat more or less.
The maker gives the daily amount as a range by weight. We worked out the amount for each weight from that range, so it is an estimate.
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Last checked: Oct 26, 2026 ·Maker's page ·Suggest a correction