The Hunger Of The Wolf Adult Grain Free: Venison and Sweet Potatoes review

1. Salmon 67.4
2. 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.

• Venison meal15%
• Sweet potato15%
• Dehydrated pork15%The same weight as the venison, so this is a venison and pork recipe.
• Potato, pea15% potato
• Poultry fatA third animal on the label.
• Hydrolysed animal proteinNames no species.
• Beet pulp, apple, flax seed
• Prebiotics, green tea extract, rosemary extract, betaglucans
• Vitamins and additivesA catch-all with no quantities.

Vitamins A, D3 and E; the list itself ends on an unitemised catch-all.

Dehydrated pork matches the venison at 15%, so pork is doing as much of the work as the meat on the front.

Meat

Venison meal and dehydrated pork, 15% each

One fish meal at 26% on the Salmon.

Protein, dry matter

29.3%

27.2% on the Salmon.

Calcium, dry matter

1.3%

1.63% on the Salmon.

Reads well on the analysis, but the venison headline needs the pork beside it.

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.

Price per kilo

£3.07 (RRP)

A 15kg dog eats (our estimate)

210 to 270 g a day, 240 in the middle

Cost per day, 15kg dog

£0.74

Budget end of the market for a dry food, though you pay a little more than the analysis alone would justify.