Jinx Chicken Homemades: our recipe review

Jinx · Chicken Homemades · Wet food · Adult maintenance

On the facts printed on its own label, Jinx Chicken Homemades scores 79 out of 100 on our rubric: a solid mid table label. The panel opens with Chicken, and the first ingredient signal earns 20 of its 20 points. At 9% crude protein it ranks 6 of the 13 Jinx recipes we scored for protein. Crude fat reads 6%.

Its adequacy claim rests on formulation: balanced on paper against the AAFCO nutrient profiles rather than fed to dogs in a trial. Our November 2026 check of FDA records found no posted dog food recall events for Jinx.

The panel runs to 21 ingredient lines. 1 of them are animal source lines and 6 are plant lines. Salt appears at line 7 of 21: ingredients listed after salt are present in small amounts, a standard reading aid for long panels. The vitamin and mineral pack begins around line 10; the 12 lines from there on are mostly supplements, preservatives and functional extras rather than staple foods.

The label facts

How the score breaks down

Ingredient notes: the first ten, one by one

Definitions below are written from AAFCO's ingredient definitions in our own words. They describe what an ingredient is, never what a brand claims about it. Names that appear in our ingredient dictionary link to it; the dictionary counts how many scored recipes carry each ingredient.

• Chicken. Chicken is the named meat in fresh form. Panel order is set by weight before cooking, and fresh meat is mostly water, so its share of the finished food is smaller than its place at the top suggests.
• Carrot. Carrot is a fruit or vegetable inclusion. At panel positions like this the amounts are small; treat them as garnish with benefits, not a nutrient pillar.
• Brown Rice. Brown Rice is a milled grain used for energy and to bind the kibble. Whole grain forms keep the bran and bring gentle fiber with them.
• Peas. Peas is a legume bringing starch, fiber and plant protein together. Legumes help a panel reach its protein figure without meat, which is worth knowing when you read the protein line.
• Kale. Kale is a fruit or vegetable inclusion. At panel positions like this the amounts are small; treat them as garnish with benefits, not a nutrient pillar.
• Chicken Bone Broth. Chicken Bone Broth is a cooking liquid from the named animal. It brings flavor and moisture, and in a wet food it is most of the weight in the can.
• Salt. Salt covers sodium, a required mineral that also lifts palatability.
• Sunflower Oil. Sunflower Oil is a plant ingredient, bringing energy, fiber or plant protein to the panel.
• Tricalcium Phosphate. Tricalcium Phosphate belongs to the vitamin and mineral pack that brings the recipe up to a complete profile. Minerals named as proteinates are bound to protein, a form the gut absorbs more readily.
• Iron Proteinate. Iron Proteinate belongs to the vitamin and mineral pack that brings the recipe up to a complete profile. Minerals named as proteinates are bound to protein, a form the gut absorbs more readily.

The brand's recall record

No FDA posted dog food recall events for this brand were found in our November 2026 check of FDA recall records. That is a statement about what we could verify, not proof of a perfect history.

See the full dog food recall tracker for recent events across all brands.

Other Jinx recipes we scored

Feeding it

Switch foods gradually over about a week, mixing more of the new food into the old each day. Portion by calories, not by the look of the bowl: our feeding calculator works out a daily amount from your dog's weight, and this recipe's calorie line above is the number it needs.

What that means at the bowl, for a typical neutered adult (resting energy 70 times body weight to the power 0.75, times 1.6; treats come out of the same budget):

Puppies, pregnant dogs and very active dogs need more; older and weight watching dogs need less. The calculator linked above adjusts for those cases.