Wagg

Wagg Meaty Chunks: With Beef review

Name: Wagg Meaty Chunks: With Beef
Brand: Wagg

55.6/100Good

WetAdult

Flavour

Soft, semi-moist chunks that pour from the bag and keep in the cupboard, in beef and chicken. If crunching a hard biscuit is the sticking point in your house, the texture solves it without changing how you store or serve dinner. Both sit in our Good band; a dog settled and well on it is doing nothing wrong.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Worn teeth or a tender mouth
Owners who want dry-food ease: nothing to soak or warm, no fridge
Adult dogs of every build
Busy households, as it scoops and stores like kibble

Worth watching

Chicken fat at 6% in both, so the beef version is not chicken free
Whole grain wheat second on the list, and dextrose as an added sugar

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

How this scores

How we score

55.6/100Good

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balancePoor

TransparencyExcellent

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults from toy to giant. Wheat is a common trigger for intolerance, so keep an eye on any dog whose skin itches or whose gut has been unsettled.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Beef

The score, in context

With Beef 55.6
With Chicken 55.6

All two Good. Typical wet food: Excellent.

The label collects most of its credit for showing its workings; the cereal share and the small named-meat share hold both at Good.

What's in it

Meat meal and gravy30%Min 4% beef; the footnote works this back to min 18% beef once rehydrated. The rest of the meat meal names no species.
Whole grain wheatBuilds the chunk and feeds the carbohydrate. Whole grain keeps the bran and germ.
GlycerolKeeps each chunk soft and pliable.
Chicken fat6%Omega 6.
DextroseAn added sugar.
Whole linseed, beet pulpPlant omega 3, and fermentable fibre to firm stools.
Vitamins and minerals
Chicory root, yucca1000mg/kg, 150mg/kgPrebiotic FOS, and yucca with stool odour in mind.

Vitamins A, D3 and E, and zinc, iron, manganese, copper, iodine and selenium (as sodium selenite), each with a figure, plus an antioxidant and a preservative.

The allergen listing carries chicken as well as beef, from the chicken fat.

Named ingredients

30% Meat Meal & Gravy* (with min 4% Beef), Whole Grain Wheat, Glycerol, 6% Chicken Fat (a source of Omega 6), Dextrose, Whole Linseed (a source of Omega 3), Beet Pulp, Vitamins & Minerals, Chicory Root (1000mg/kg), Yucca (150mg/kg), 30% Meat Ingredients, with Beef equivalent per 100g to: *min 40g hydrated animal ingredients with min 18% Beef

Against the range

Named meat: Beef, min 4%; Chicken on the other bag.
Other animals on the label: Chicken fat; The same fat on both.
Analysis: Identical; Same panel and energy on both.

Pick it for a dog that likes red meat, not for one kept off poultry.

Both labels are the same recipe with a different named meat. It opens on 30% meat meal and gravy, the headline meat at a minimum of 4%, then whole grain wheat, glycerol, chicken fat at 6% and dextrose. Beyond that 4%, the species behind the meat meal is not pinned down.

The declared analysis is identical across the two: protein at 24.7% of dry matter, fat at 12.9% and estimated carbohydrate at 47.7%. Moisture is 15%, low enough for the cupboard.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

341 kcal/100g

Protein

21%

Fat

11%

Fibre

3.5%

Ash

Moisture

15%

Dry weight

Protein

24.7%

Fat

12.9%

Fibre

4.1%

Ash

10.6%

Carbs

47.7%

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

18%

Added water

30%

Carbs

27.4%

Veg

1.1%

Oils

Other

17.6%

Pricing & size