Taste of the Wild

Taste of the Wild Adult: High Prairie review

Name: Taste of the Wild Adult: High Prairie
Brand: Taste of the Wild

71.1/100Excellent

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Flavour

Six grain-free kibbles, each built around an animal a dog has rarely met, from bison and roasted deer to wild boar and smoked turkey. High Prairie reaches our Excellent band and the other five sit in Good. Behind the storytelling, the unusual meat is mostly the flavour, and a meal does much of the work.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Dogs that have run out of ordinary proteins
Owners keeping a dog off cereal
A dog that must stay on fish. Pacific Stream has no land animal on its list
Homes feeding several ages, since four bags list puppy, adult and senior
Working and sporting dogs, on High Prairie or Wetlands at 35.6% protein of dry matter

Worth watching

The advertised animal is rarely the largest meat entry
Fish in every recipe, and egg on five of the six
No calcium figure on the all life stages bags; ask the maker before feeding a growing giant

Written by our editorial team. Independent guidance, not veterinary advice.

How this scores

How we score

71.1/100Excellent

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceExcellent

TransparencyExcellent

ValueExcellent

The details

Dog fit

Four recipes are listed for puppies, adults and seniors, and Sierra Mountain and Southwest Canyon for adults, all sizes throughout. Large breed puppy owners should get the calcium figure first.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Puppy, Adult, Senior

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Buffalo

The score, in context

High Prairie 71.1
Wetlands 68.9
Sierra Mountain 62.9
Southwest Canyon 62.1
Pine Forest 58.5
Pacific Stream 57.4

Six recipes across Excellent and Good. Typical dry food: Good.

What separates them is how much of the protein is animal and how much comes from pulses, and every one stays under the typical dry food's carbohydrate.

What's in it

Bison12%The name on the bag.
Lamb meal, chicken mealDried and rendered; most of the protein comes from here.
Sweet potatoes, peas, potatoesThe starch.
Chicken fat
Egg products, beef
Roasted deer4%
Tomato pulp, potato protein, pea proteinPlant protein lifting the figure.
Sea fish meal, minerals
Chicory roots, tomatoes, blueberries, raspberries, yuccaBerries are seasoning; chicory is a prebiotic.

Taurine at 0.1% and vitamin E at 150 IU, with zinc, iron, copper and manganese each declared in a chelate and a standard form.

Listed for puppies of every size but no calcium figure printed. Ask the maker before feeding a large breed pup.

Named ingredients

Bison (12%), lamb meal, chicken meal, sweet potatoes, peas, potatoes, chicken fat (preserved with mixed tocopherols), egg products, beef, roasted deer (4%), tomato pulp, potato protein, pea protein, sea fish meal, minerals, dried chicory roots, tomatoes, blueberries, raspberries, yucca schidigera extract.

Against the range

Protein, dry matter: 35.6%; Matched by Wetlands; 27.8% to 32.2% on the rest
Carbohydrate, dry matter: 30.9%; 30.2% on Wetlands, up to 42.3%
Animals on the label: Bison, lamb, chicken, egg, beef, deer, fish; Fish only on Pacific Stream

The leader of the range, though the bison and deer are the flavour and the meals are the bulk.

Every recipe opens with an unusual named animal and then a concentrated meat meal, often lamb or chicken, which does at least as much of the protein work. No cereal appears in any of the six. Sweet potato and potato carry the starch in some; chickpeas, peas and lentils in others, with pea and potato proteins lifting the protein figure.

All six end on the same tail of tomato, berries, chicory root and yucca, and every mineral panel declares zinc, iron, copper and manganese twice, once as a chelate.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

362.3 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

32%

Fat

18%

Fibre

Ash

9.2%

Moisture

10%

Dry weight

Protein

35.6%

Fat

20%

Fibre

3.3%

Ash

10.2%

Carbs

30.9%

As-fed composition

Estimated breakdown of the finished product by ingredient category, from the declared ingredient list and ingoing weights. These are estimates, not measurements.

Meat

57.9%

Carbs

27.5%

Veg

0.7%

Oils

1.8%

Other

12.1%

Pricing & size

Price per kilo: £5.08 (RRP)
Pack: 2kg (EAN 074198612277), 12.2kg (EAN 074198614264), Economy Pack: 2 x 12.2kg (EAN 074198614264 - same EAN as the single 12.2 kg bag)
A 15kg dog eats: 210 g a day
Cost per day, 15kg dog: £1.07

Middle of the market for a dry food, and good value for what the analysis shows.

Ingredients and nutrition are taken from manufacturer data. Retailer pricing is not yet live for this food.