Wholesome Essentials Senior Chicken & Brown Rice Recipe
Nutro Wholesome Essentials Senior Chicken & Brown Rice Recipe is a dry senior cat food with grains. Its first ingredients are chicken, chicken meal and pea protein. It has an Ingredients score of 70/100, a Nutrition score of 10/10 and nothing on our Avoid List. The lowest price we found is $3.21/lb (14 lb bag at Chewy).
Label checked Oct 29, 2026 · Price checked Oct 29, 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
- Pea Protein
- 2 / 5
- Legume
- Whole Grain Brown Rice
- 2 / 5
- Grain, potato or other carb source
- Chicken Fat (preserved with Mixed Tocopherols)
- 4 / 5
- Named animal fat
- Other ingredients
- 3.3 / 5
- Average of the other 36 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 36%
- 5 / 5
- Full points between 35% and 45%
- Fat 17%
- 5 / 5
- Full points between 15% and 22%
- Carbohydrates 25%
- 5 / 5
- Full points between 15% and 25%. Our estimate: the label does not list ash.
- Fiber 5%
- 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) | 36% | 40% |
| Fat (min) | 17% | 18.9% |
| Fiber (max) | 5% | 5.6% |
| Ash | not listed | - |
| Carbohydrates (estimate) | 25% | 27.8% |
| Moisture (max) | 10% | - |
| Calories | 3,763 kcal/kg · 387 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, Pea Protein, Whole Grain Brown Rice, Chicken Fat (preserved with Mixed Tocopherols), Brewers Rice, Dehydrated Alfalfa Meal, Potato Protein, Whole Grain Oatmeal, Whole Flaxseed, Dried Plain Beet Pulp, Natural Flavor, Fish Oil (preserved with Mixed Tocopherols), Choline Chloride, Potassium Chloride, Soybean Oil (preserved with Mixed Tocopherols), Taurine, Citric Acid (preservative), Mixed Tocopherols (preservative), Salt, DL-Methionine, 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 an estimated daily amount and the cheapest bag. Your cat may eat more or less.
We could not find the maker's feeding chart. These amounts come from a general formula: the calories on the label (3,763 kcal/kg) and the daily energy a cat of that weight needs according to the Merck Veterinary Manual, using the figure for a neutered adult. The chart on the bag may say something different.
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Last checked: Oct 29, 2026 ·Maker's page ·Suggest a correction