Wainwright's

Wainwright's Adult Dry Food With Superfoods: British Pork with Superfoods review

Name: Wainwright's Adult Dry Food With Superfoods: British Pork with Superfoods
Brand: Wainwright's

59.2/100Good

DryAdult

Flavour

The grain-free half of the Wainwright's adult shelf, and the more generous half. All three recipes sit in our Good band, with the chicken the strongest at a 51.5% animal share. Every percentage that matters is printed, which is why transparency reads Outstanding across the range.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Homes with cereal off the menu, as potato and sweet potato supply the starch
Joint support written into the recipe, with the glucosamine and chondroitin each given a percentage
A novel protein plan. Pork is one plenty of dogs have never met
Pinning down a sensitivity, with each recipe kept to one named species
Fish-free bowls: no fish or fish oil in any of the three

Worth watching

Potato protein fairly high on the pork list, doing work meat protein would do better
Moisture not declared on the pork or the chicken, so their dry matter figures assume 8%
Sweet potato at 40% in the beef, a large plant share for a dog you want holding muscle

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

How this scores

How we score

59.2/100Good

Protein and processingAverage

Nutritional balanceAverage

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

The chicken and beef are listed for adults of every size; the pork bag is listed for medium adults. Portion to the waistline first and the feeding table second.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Medium

Main protein

Pork

The score, in context

Free Run Chicken 69.3
Grass Fed Beef 62.2
British Pork 59.2

All three Good. Typical dry food: Good.

The chicken pulls ahead on the strength of its meat share, while potato protein in the pork and a 40% sweet potato share in the beef hold those two back.

What's in it

Freshly prepared pork, pork meal26%, 10%36% pork in all. The meal carries the protein through the oven.
Potato flake
Sweet potato pellets13%Slower-release starch than most cereals.
Potato protein, vegetable digestDoing work meat could have done.
Rapeseed oil
Sugar beet pellets, dried apple pellets2.5%, 1%The apple is equivalent to 6.5% fresh.
Dried carrot, minerals, alfalfa pellets
Seaweed meal, whole linseed0.5% eachIodine from the seaweed, plant omega 3 from the linseed.
Chicory root extract0.1%Inulin for the gut's friendly bacteria.
Blueberry, fennel, nettle, parsley, rosemary, spinach, yucca, glucosamine, chondroitin, peppermint, turmeric0.05% down to 0.015%Seasoning, apart from rosemary, which keeps the fats from turning, and the joint pair.

Zinc, iron, manganese, copper, iodine and selenium all dosed openly in sulphate, oxide and selenite forms, with vitamin E at 70mg.

Named ingredients

Pork (36%) (Freshly Prepared Pork (26%), Pork Meal (10%)), Potato Flake, Sweet Potato Pellets (13%), Potato Protein, Rapeseed Oil, Vegetable Digest, Sugar Beet Pellets (2.5%), Dried Apple Pellets (1% equivalent to 6.5% Apple), Dried Carrot, Minerals, Alfalfa Pellets, Seaweed Meal (0.5%), Whole Linseed (0.5%), Chicory Root Extract (0.1%), Dried Blueberry, Dried Fennel (0.05%), Dried Nettle, Dried Parsley, Dried Rosemary, Dried Spinach, Extract of Yucca Schidigera (0.02%), Glucosamine (0.02%), Chondroitin (0.015%), Dried Peppermint, Turmeric

Against the range

Meat: 36% pork; 40.5% beef, 51.5% chicken.
Protein and processing: Average; Good on the chicken.
Botanicals: Fennel and peppermint; Spearmint on the other two.

Useful when you are trying to pin down a reaction, as pork is the meat a dog is least likely to have met.

Each recipe keeps to one named animal and splits it in print: 36% pork, 40.5% beef, 51.5% chicken, every one built from 26% freshly prepared meat plus a meal. The meal carries most of the protein into the kibble, since fresh meat loses its water in the oven. There is no cereal anywhere; potato and sweet potato do the binding, with sweet potato at 12.5%, 13% and 40%.

Every label prints glucosamine at 0.02% and chondroitin at 0.015%, chicory root extract at 0.1% and linseed at 0.5% as the omega 3 source. No fish or fish oil appears across the three.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

354.8 kcal/100g

Protein

24%

Fat

11%

Fibre

2.5%

Ash

9.5%

Dry weight

Protein

26.1%

Fat

12%

Fibre

2.7%

Ash

10.3%

Carbs

48.9%

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

41.4%

Carbs

47.7%

Veg

4.9%

Oils

4.1%

Other

1.9%

Pricing & size