Wainwright's

Wainwright's Adult Pouches: Chicken with Brown Rice review

Name: Wainwright's Adult Pouches: Chicken with Brown Rice
Brand: Wainwright's

60.2/100Good

WetAdult

Flavour

One named meat at 45% in a 150g pouch, with cooked brown rice, peas and carrots behind it. Chicken, lamb and tuna share the recipe almost line for line, so swapping between them is simple, though the tuna is much leaner. All three sit in our Good band and are honest about how they are built.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Smaller dogs and no opened container in the fridge. Each pouch is a meal
Dogs that need one animal on the label
Fussy eaters. A swap changes the taste and leaves the food underneath alone
A lighter bowl: the tuna reads 12.8% fat in dry matter
Toy breeds up to large

Worth watching

Brown rice at 10% in all three, so not for a grain-avoiding dog
Estimated carbohydrate of 23.4% to 25.9% of dry matter, against a typical 15.8%

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

How this scores

How we score

60.2/100Good

Protein and processingAverage

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adult dogs from toy to large. Work from the middle of the label's guide for your dog's weight and adjust to the waistline.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large

Main protein

Poultry

The score, in context

Tuna 61.7
Chicken 60.2
Lamb 58.1

All three Good. Typical wet food: Excellent.

Nothing separates the three on our scoring; a modest meat share and a high rice-led carbohydrate keep them a tier under the typical wet food.

What's in it

Chicken45%The only animal on the label, with no derivatives behind it.
Cooked wholegrain brown rice10%Counted cooked. Gentle, and the main reason carbohydrate runs high.
Dried peas, carrots4% each
Minerals
Olive oil0.3%A better added fat than most pouches use.
Seaweed extract, chicory extract, yucca extract0.2% down to 0.05%Chicory for the prebiotic side.
Blueberry powder, cranberry extract, pomegranate extractTiny amounts. Not the reason to choose it.

Vitamins A, D3 and E with iron, iodine, copper, manganese and zinc, all dosed; zinc runs highest of the three at 30.9mg per kilo.

Named ingredients

Chicken (45%), Cooked Wholegrain Brown Rice (10%), Dried Peas (4%), Carrots (4%), Minerals, Olive Oil (0.3%), Seaweed Extract (0.2%), Chicory Extract (as a source of Prebiotic Fructooligosaccharides) (0.1%), Yucca Extract (0.05%), Blueberry Powder, Cranberry Extract, Pomegranate Extract

Against the range

Protein, dry matter: 36.4%; 32.6% on the Lamb, 55.3% on the Tuna
Fat, dry matter: 29.5%; 32.6% on the Lamb, 12.8% on the Tuna
Zinc: 30.9mg per kilo; Slightly lower on the other two

The middle option in every sense, and the easy starting point.

The three pouches are one recipe with the animal swapped: chicken, lamb or tuna at 45%, then cooked brown rice at 10% and dried peas and carrots at 4% each. Each keeps to its single named animal. Olive oil is the added fat, with sunflower oil on the tuna as well, and a few extracts at fractions of a percent close every list.

The analyses are where they differ. On a dry matter basis the tuna reads 55.3% protein and 12.8% fat, the chicken 36.4% and 29.5%, the lamb 32.6% for both. Estimated carbohydrate runs from 23.4% to 25.9% of dry matter.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

101.8 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

Fat

6.5%

Fibre

0.7%

Ash

1.5%

Moisture

78%

Dry weight

Protein

36.4%

Fat

29.5%

Fibre

3.2%

Ash

6.8%

Carbs

24.1%

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

45%

Added water

21.8%

Carbs

14%

Veg

4.3%

Oils

0.3%

Other

14.6%