Wagg Meaty Goodness Adult: Chicken Dinner review

1. Chicken Dinner 56.8
2. 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.

• Meat meal and gravy, with chicken26%Chicken guaranteed at min 5%. The rest of the meat meal is unnamed.
• Whole grain wheat, whole grain barleyMost of the bowl. Wheat is the grain most often linked to intolerance.
• Vegetable fibre, maize
• Chicken fat2%Omega 6.
• Whole linseedsPlant omega 3.
• Dried green peas and beet pulp2.3%Doing more for digestion than for the vegetable count.
• Minerals and vitamins
• Chicory root, yucca1000 mg/kg, 150 mg/kg

The simpler panel: zinc at 50 mg and iron at 50 mg per kilogram, with copper, iodine and selenium in standard forms.

Guaranteed meat

Chicken, min 5%

Beef in the other dinner.

Additive panel

Zinc 50 mg, iron 50 mg

The beef adds vitamin C and a chelated zinc.

Analysis

22.0% protein, 8.8% fat in dry matter

Identical on the beef dinner.

Same bowl as the beef on paper, so your dog's taste in meat can settle it.

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.

Price per kilo

£1.36 (RRP)

Pack

1kg, 2kg, 12kg

A 15kg dog eats

185 to 310 g a day, 250 in the middle

Cost per day, 15kg dog

£0.34

Budget end of the market for a dry food, though the price still runs ahead of what the analysis shows.