The Hunger Of The Wolf

The Hunger Of The Wolf Adult: Beef and Brown Rice review

Name: The Hunger Of The Wolf Adult: Beef and Brown Rice
Brand: The Hunger Of The Wolf

65.3/100Good

DryAdult

Flavour

A sensible range sorted by the size of the dog first and the flavour second. Meat meals do the work at the front, with a conventional starch base behind, and the gut-friendly small print is better than many neighbours manage. The beef finishes highest.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Large and giant breeds: their recipe lists glucosamine and chondroitin
Toy and small dogs. The chicken with lamb pushes chicken meal to 30.5% and adds salmon oil
A dog carrying a little extra, on Light Chicken with fat at 8.0% and fibre at 5.5%
Dogs that do better off chicken, who get a beef recipe and a lamb one
Owners keen on gut support from MOS, FOS and beta-glucans

Worth watching

Maize and wheat in several recipes, for anyone keeping a dog off grain
Poultry fat and liver that never name the bird, so chicken is neither ruled in nor out
Fish meal in the lamb and fish oil in some chicken bags, so not every recipe is fish free
Trace element doses printed in other languages only

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

How this scores

How we score

65.3/100Good

Protein and processingAverage

Nutritional balanceGood

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Adult food, with bags cut for toy and mini, small and medium, and large and giant dogs. Pick the bag by your dog's size before you pick the flavour.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Beef

The score, in context

Beef 65.3
Chicken 61.7
Light Chicken 61.6
Chicken (Small 54.4
Lamb 53.3
Chicken (Large 53.2

All six Good. Typical dry food: Good.

The recipes that push the named meat highest finish furthest up, with the beef, the toy and mini, and Light Chicken out in front.

What's in it

Dehydrated beef25%A meal, with the water gone, so it carries more protein than the share suggests.
Brown rice24%
Pea24%
Poultry fatThe bird is not named.
Lamb proteinA second animal, so this is beef led and not beef only.
Potato starch, beet pulp
Apple, flax seed
Prebiotics, betaglucansGut support.
Green tea extract, rosemary extractThe antioxidants in this one.
Vitamins & additivesA catch-all where an itemised list would tell you more.

Vitamins A, D3 and E, choline chloride, L-carnitine and biotin; the trace element list is printed in other languages only.

Named ingredients

Dehydrated beef (25 %), brown rice (24 %), pea (24%), poultry fat, lamb protein, potato starch, beet pulp, apple, flax seed, prebiotics, green tea extract, rosemary extract, betaglucans, vitamins & additives.

Against the range

Protein, dry matter: 32.6%; Top of the range; the others run 27.2% to 30.4%.
Carbohydrate: 40.8% of dry matter; Lowest of the six; the large breed chicken reaches 47.8%.
Grain: Brown rice and pea; Maize and rice on the rest.
Calcium, dry matter: 1.85%; Highest; Light Chicken is 1.2%.

The leader of the range on our scoring, and the one to choose for a dog kept off chicken meal.

Meat meals carry every recipe: dehydrated beef at 25%, chicken meal from 27% to 30.5%, lamb meal at 20%. With the water already gone, those figures do more in the bowl than the same share of fresh meat. Behind them sits maize, wheat or rice, and estimated carbohydrate runs from 40.8% of dry matter in the beef to 47.8% in the large breed chicken.

Poultry fat and hydrolysed poultry liver turn up across most of the range without naming the bird. MOS, FOS and beta-glucans run through nearly all of it. Calcium is declared everywhere, but the English declaration stops at vitamins A, D3 and E, so the trace elements carry no figures.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

372.2 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

30%

Fat

16%

Fibre

2.5%

Ash

Dry weight

Protein

32.6%

Fat

17.4%

Fibre

2.7%

Ash

6.5%

Carbs

40.8%

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

33.3%

Carbs

56.9%

Veg

1.4%

Oils

6.4%

Other

Pricing & size