Wainwright's Adult Dry Food: Turkey & Rice review

1. Chicken 61.8
2. Turkey 59.7
3. Salmon 59.3
4. Lamb 57.8

All four Good. Typical dry food: Good.

Nothing meaningful separates the four but the animal; the grain side stops them climbing and the open label lifts them.

• Turkey: dried turkey 28%, freshly prepared turkey 5%33%A leaner bird than chicken.
• Rice26%The plant backbone, and easy to digest.
• Whole grain barley22%Whole grain keeps its fibre. Barley carries gluten.
• Whole ground oats4.5%
• Beet pulp4%The fibre.
• Rapeseed oilA plant oil, so no second animal in the bag.
• Dried peas3%Stands in for a larger weight of fresh peas.
• Linseed2%The plant omega 3. Slower for a dog to use than fish oil, so give a coat weeks.
• Dried carrots, seaweed, yucca extract1% down to 0.02%

Vitamins A, D3 and E, with zinc, iron, manganese, copper, iodine and selenium as sulphates and oxides: a standard panel, dosed openly.

Protein, as declared

24.5%

Between the salmon at 24.0% and the chicken at 26.0%.

Ash

7.5%

The same as the salmon; the lamb is 10.0%.

Animal

Turkey

One species per bag across the range.

The middle of the range on every count, with the leaner bird.

Every bag declares 33% of its named animal, and in each the dried meat or fish carries it: 28% dried lamb, salmon or turkey, or 26% chicken meal. One species per bag. Rice at 26% and whole grain barley do the starch, with oats behind, beet pulp for fibre, rapeseed oil as the fat and linseed at 2% for omega 3.

Protein converts to between 24.7% and 28.6% of dry matter, and estimated carbohydrate to between 50.0% and 51.1%. What varies is the animal, and the ash: the lamb carries the most.

Price per kilo

£3.33 (RRP)

Pack

2kg/kg), 15kg/kg)

A 15kg dog eats

170 to 290 g a day, 230 in the middle

Cost per day, 15kg dog

£0.77

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