The Hunger Of The Wolf

The Hunger Of The Wolf Adult Grain Free: Salmon and Potatoes review

Name: The Hunger Of The Wolf Adult Grain Free: Salmon and Potatoes
Brand: The Hunger Of The Wolf

67.4/100Good

DryAdult

Flavour

Two cereal free recipes that take noticeably different routes to the same shelf. The Salmon is the tighter build and the stronger of the two; the Venison matches its headline meat with the same weight of pork. Both land in our Good band, and the difference is written plainly on the labels.

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Our view

Likely to suit

A dog kept off grain
Fish lovers, with salmon meal leading the Salmon and salmon oil behind it
Moving a dog on to a less common meat, with venison meal heading the second bag
A dog whose skin and coat need help: salmon oil and linseed bring omega 3 from two directions
Owners who like antioxidants from food, with green tea, cranberries and marigold in the Salmon

Worth watching

Poultry fat in both, which matters if the point is keeping a dog off chicken
Dehydrated pork in the Venison at the same 15% as the venison
Hydrolysed animal protein in the Venison, species unnamed

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

How this scores

How we score

67.4/100Good

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceAverage

TransparencyGood

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults of every size. If it is venison specifically you are after, read the list before the label; for a large breed, the Venison's calcium sits at a comfortable 1.3% of dry matter.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Salmon

The score, in context

Salmon 67.4
Venison 61.2

All two Good. Typical dry food: Good.

The two finish closer than their lists suggest, and the pork matching the venison accounts for the whole gap between them.

What's in it

Salmon meal26%Dried before mixing, so it does far more for the protein than fresh fish at the same share.
Potato flakes, sweet potatoThe grain free base.
Poultry fatStops this being a single-animal food.
Peas, sugar beet pulp
Pea proteinA plant concentrate topping up the protein figure.
Salmon oil, linseedOmega 3 from fish and from a plant.
Fructooligosaccharides (FOS), yucca extractA prebiotic, and yucca for what the garden gets.
Green tea, dried cranberries, marigoldAntioxidants; marigold is there for lutein.

Vitamins A and D3, with vitamin E at 530 mg and vitamin C at 600 mg per kilo, both generous.

The English label gives no trace-mineral declaration; that panel is printed only in other languages.

Named ingredients

Salmon meal, potato flakes, sweet potato, poultry fat, peas, sugar beet pulp, pea protein, salmon oil, linseed, fructooligosaccharides (FOS), yucca extract, green tea, dried cranberries, marigold yellow (source of lutein). Salmon meal (26%), potato flakes, sweet potato, sweet potato, poultry fat, peas, sugar beet pulp, pea protein, salmon oil, linseed, fructooligosacharides (FOS), yucca extract, green tea, dried cranberries, marigold yellow (source of lutein).

Against the range

Meat: Salmon meal 26%; The Venison splits venison meal and pork at 15% each.
Ash, dry matter: 10.3%; 9.9% on the Venison.
Calcium, dry matter: 1.63%; 1.3% on the Venison.
Carbohydrate, dry matter: 41.9%; 41.2% on the Venison.

The cleaner single-animal protein of the two, and the stronger score.

Both recipes leave cereal out, building the starch from potato, sweet potato and peas. Each leads on a dried meat meal, so the declared share goes in close to its finished weight, and ash runs high in both for the same reason. Poultry fat sits in both, so neither is a single-animal food.

What varies is the meat. The Salmon is one fish meal at 26% with salmon oil behind it. The Venison splits its animal side between venison meal and dehydrated pork at 15% each, with a hydrolysed animal protein that names no species.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

349.8 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

25%

Fat

15%

Fibre

Ash

9.5%

Dry weight

Protein

27.2%

Fat

16.3%

Fibre

4.3%

Ash

10.3%

Carbs

41.9%

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

53.9%

Carbs

40.5%

Oils

4.5%

Other

1.1%

Pricing & size