The Hunger Of The Wolf

The Hunger Of The Wolf Adult: Chicken (Large and Giant Breeds) review

Name: The Hunger Of The Wolf Adult: Chicken (Large and Giant Breeds)
Brand: The Hunger Of The Wolf

53.2/100Good

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

53.2/100Good

Protein and processingAverage

Nutritional balanceAverage

TransparencyAverage

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

Large, Giant

Main protein

Chicken

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

Chicken meal27%The meat, dried down to a meal.
Maize, wheatThe starch base. Grain-led.
Poultry fatBird not named.
Rice
Hydrolyzed poultry liverFlavour. Again no species.
Flaxseed, coconut oil
MOS, FOS, beta-glucansPrebiotics for the large intestine.
Glucosamine, chondroitinFor the joints a big dog leans on hardest.
Feed additivesVitamins, chelated zinc and manganese, organic selenium and Enterococcus faecium, a probiotic.

Vitamins A, D3 and E, choline chloride, L-carnitine and biotin, with chelated zinc and manganese and organic selenium named in the ingredient list but given no figures.

Named ingredients

Chicken meal (27 %), maize, wheat, poultry fat, rice, hydrolyzed poultry liver, flaxseed, coconut oil, MOS (mannanoligosaccharides), FOS (fructooligosaccharides), beta-glucans, glucosamine, chondroitin, feed additives (vitamins A, D3 and E, cholinechloride, L-carnitine, biotin, chelated form of zinc and manganese, organic selenium, lysine, methionine, Enterococcus faecium).

Against the range

Meat: Chicken meal 27%; 28% to 30.5% on the other chicken recipes.
Carbohydrate: 47.8% of dry matter; The highest in the range.
Joint support: Glucosamine, chondroitin; Also in the lamb and Light Chicken.
Calcium, dry matter: 1.58%; A level a large breed can grow on.

Sized for big dogs and their joints, with the starchiest bowl of the six.

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

352 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

25%

Fat

13%

Fibre

2.5%

Ash

7.5%

Dry weight

Protein

27.2%

Fat

14.1%

Fibre

2.7%

Ash

8.2%

Carbs

47.8%

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

32.3%

Carbs

56.8%

Oils

7.3%

Other

3.6%

Pricing & size