Wainwright's

Wainwright's Adult Cans With Superfoods: Wild Venison review

Name: Wainwright's Adult Cans With Superfoods: Wild Venison
Brand: Wainwright's

75.7/100Excellent

WetAdult

Flavour

The meat-forward approach of the brand's plain cans with the cereal taken out, and all three sit in our Excellent band. Each can keeps to one named animal, prepared fresh, and the label quantifies nearly everything on it. The superfoods in the name are the smallest entries on the list.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Grain-avoiding dogs, with all the starch from sweet potato and peas
An exclusion diet: one named animal per can, no fish oil, no unnamed fat
A dog already familiar with the usual meats. Wild venison at 67% is the novel option
Owners who want meat prepared fresh, not dried into a meal
Fussy eaters, who tend to take to the beef can once the tripe is in the bowl

Worth watching

Goji berries and blueberries at 0.05% each, a flourish and not a working amount
The lamb can leaves out the seaweed, yucca and chicory root
No energy declared on any label, so the calorie figures are our estimate

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

How this scores

How we score

75.7/100Excellent

Protein and processingExcellent

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueExcellent

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults of every size, on one portion table from toy breeds to giants. Let the waistline decide where in the daily range your dog belongs.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

The score, in context

Grass Fed Beef 76.7
Wild Venison 75.7
Grass Fed Lamb 75.2

All three Excellent. Typical wet food: Excellent.

Three cans close together, the beef a little ahead, sitting comfortably in the middle of a strong wet food shelf.

What's in it

Freshly prepared wild venison67%The highest meat share here, and a novel animal.
Dried sweet potato1%Equivalent to 4% fresh.
Dried carrot, minerals
Sunflower oil, dried seaweed0.5% each
Dried peas
Goji berries, blueberries0.05% each
Yucca extract, chicory root0.02% each
Dried rosemary, dried parsley0.02% each

Zinc at 24mg down to selenium at 0.04mg per kilo, all printed.

Named ingredients

Freshly Prepared Wild Venison (67%), Dried Sweet Potato (1% equivalent to 4% sweet potato), Dried Carrot, Minerals, Sunflower Oil (0.5%), Dried Seaweed (0.5%), Dried Peas, Goji Berries (0.05%), Blueberries (0.05%), Yucca Extract (0.02%), Chicory Root (as a source of Prebiotic Fructo-oligosaccharides) (0.02%), Herbs: Dried Rosemary (0.02%), Dried Parsley (0.02%)

Against the range

Meat: Venison 67%; Beef 45% with tripe, lamb 60%.
Fat, dry matter: 32.0%; 28.0% on the other two.
Protein, dry matter: 36.0%; 40.0% on the beef and lamb.
Energy: 117 kcal per 100g; 112 on the other two.

The richest can, and the one for a dog that already knows beef, lamb and poultry.

Freshly prepared meat leads all three cans, one named animal per can, with no cereal anywhere. Dried sweet potato does the starch work with dried peas and carrot behind it, sunflower oil at 0.5% is the only added fat, and goji berries and blueberries sit at 0.05% each. Every trace element carries a printed dose.

What varies is the meat share and the tail: the beef and venison cans add seaweed, yucca and chicory root, while the lamb keeps to a shorter list with mint in place of parsley.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

117 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

Fat

Fibre

0.5%

Ash

2.5%

Moisture

75%

Dry weight

Protein

36%

Fat

32%

Fibre

Ash

10%

Carbs

20%

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

67%

Added water

19.1%

Carbs

8.8%

Veg

3.1%

Oils

0.5%

Other

1.5%