Wagg

Wagg Meaty Goodness Adult: Beef Dinner review

Name: Wagg Meaty Goodness Adult: Beef Dinner
Brand: Wagg

47.5/100Average

DryAdult

Flavour

A dinner name on a familiar build: cereal does most of the carrying, with meat meal and gravy at the front. The label is unusually open about it, printing its meat footnote and every additive dose. The chicken dinner sits in our Good band and the beef a band under it in Average.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Dogs with a steady appetite and no history of reacting to cereal
A lighter energy load, at 316 kcal per 100g against 357 for the typical adult dry food
Keeping one routine. The beef and chicken dinners are the same recipe under two names
Owners who like trace mineral doses printed in full

Worth watching

Chicken fat in the beef dinner too, so neither bowl is poultry free
Wheat high on both lists, a point to weigh for a dog with a grain sensitivity

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

How this scores

How we score

47.5/100Average

Protein and processingAverage

Nutritional balancePoor

TransparencyGood

ValueAverage

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults of every size. The feeding table runs from 75 grams for a 3kg dog to 525 grams at 40kg, but let the waistline set the scoop.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Beef

The score, in context

Chicken Dinner 56.8
Beef Dinner 47.5

Two recipes across Good and Average. Typical dry food: Good.

Cereal carries most of the bowl on both dinners, so the chicken lands level with the middle of the category and the beef a band under it.

What's in it

Meat meal and gravy, with beef26%Beef guaranteed at min 5%. Meat meal is a dried, rendered protein concentrate, and the rest of the animal content is unnamed.
Whole grain wheat, whole grain barleyThe structure of the kibble. Wheat is the grain most often linked to intolerance, and barley brings gluten too.
Vegetable fibre, maizeThe vegetable fibre is very likely beet pulp under another name.
Chicken fat2%Omega 6, and poultry in a beef dinner.
Whole linseedsPlant omega 3.
Dried green peas and beet pulp2.3%One shared entry. Beet pulp is a fermentable fibre that helps firm a stool.
Minerals and vitamins
Chicory root, yucca1000 mg/kg, 150 mg/kgA prebiotic, and the standard addition for stool odour.

Vitamin C at 50 mg, and zinc split between 75 mg as the oxide and 25 mg as an amino acid chelate, the form a dog generally absorbs more readily.

Chicken fat sits on this label as well, so the beef dinner is not poultry free.

Named ingredients

26%, Meat Meal & Gravy* (with min 5% Beef*) Whole Grain Wheat, Whole Grain Barley, Vegetable Fibre, Maize, 2% Chicken Fat (source of Omega 6), Whole Linseeds (source of omega 3), 2.3% Dried Green Peas & Beet Pulp*, Minerals & Vitamins, Chicory Root (1000 mg/kg), Yucca (150 mg/kg). 28% Meat Ingredients, with Beef and Veg*equivalent per 100g to: *min 40g hydrated animal ingredients with min 20% Beef, *min 10g Vegetables from dried peas and beet

Against the range

Guaranteed meat: Beef, min 5%; Chicken in the other dinner.
Zinc: 75 mg oxide plus 25 mg chelate; 50 mg as sulphate in the chicken dinner.
Vitamin C: 50 mg; Not added to the chicken dinner.
Analysis: 22.0% protein, 8.8% fat in dry matter; Identical on the chicken dinner.

The fuller additive panel of the pair, though it scores a band below the chicken.

Both dinners open on 26% meat meal and gravy, with the named meat guaranteed at a minimum 5% inside it, then whole grain wheat and barley, vegetable fibre and maize. The footnote declares 28% meat ingredients, which still leaves most of the animal content unnamed. Chicken fat at 2% runs through both, and the analysis panel is identical line for line.

What varies is the additive panel. The beef dinner adds vitamin C and a chelated zinc on top of the oxide; the chicken dinner keeps the simpler list.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

316.5 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

20%

Fat

Fibre

3.5%

Ash

8.5%

Moisture

Dry weight

Protein

22%

Fat

8.8%

Fibre

3.8%

Ash

9.3%

Carbs

56.1%

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

20%

Added water

20.5%

Carbs

22.3%

Veg

6.1%

Oils

Other

29%

Pricing & size