Wainwright's

Wainwright's Complete Freeze Dried Raw: Chicken review

Name: Wainwright's Complete Freeze Dried Raw: Chicken
Brand: Wainwright's

85.8/100Outstanding

Freeze-driedAdult

Flavour

Raw feeding without the freezer: frozen, the water drawn off at low temperature, and rehydrated at the bowl. Both recipes hold to one named animal and sit together in our Outstanding band. Beef keeps to beef and chicken to chicken.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Dogs on an exclusion trial, as each recipe holds to one animal
Owners who travel or use kennels. The pack goes wherever a bag of biscuit would
Toy through to large breeds, each with a line on the feeding guide
Hungry, hard-keeping dogs, since the energy per gram is high
Raw ingredients without the hygiene routine of raw mince

Worth watching

Rehydrating takes a few minutes and a jug of water at each meal
Both are listed for adults, so a puppy wants the freeze-dried food made for that stage
Zinc carried on protein hydrolysates of unnamed source, for a strict elimination plan

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

How this scores

How we score

85.8/100Outstanding

Protein and processingOutstanding

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueOutstanding

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults from toy to large. Portions come out small and are easy to overshoot, so weigh them.

Food type

Freeze-dried

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

Chicken 85.8
Beef 84.2

All two Outstanding. Typical dry food: Good.

The two finish level with every pillar Outstanding, so choose on the animal that suits your dog.

What's in it

Chicken60%One bird, and nothing else from an animal.
Potato15%The main starch, and a larger plant side than the freeze-dried norm.
Sweet potato6%
Peas6%Useful whole, though some of the protein comes from them.
Carrot5%
Apple, pear3%, 2%

Vitamins A, D3 and E with zinc chelated to protein hydrolysates of unnamed source, iron, manganese, copper, iodine, and selenium as selenised yeast, the better absorbed form.

The zinc is carried on protein hydrolysates of unnamed source, which matters on a strict elimination plan.

Named ingredients

Chicken (60%), Potato (15%), Sweet Potato (6%), Peas (6%), Carrot (5%), Apple (3%), Pear (2%)

Against the range

Protein, dry matter: 41.7%; 35.7% on the beef.
Carbohydrate, dry matter: 25.1%; 29.5% on the beef.
Fat, dry matter: 23.8%; 25.9% on the beef.

The higher-protein half, though chicken turns up in intolerance more often than any other meat.

Both recipes follow one blueprint: 60% of a single named meat, then potato, sweet potato, peas, carrot, apple and pear, all with percentages. There is no second animal, no unnamed fat, no fish oil and no meat meal on either list. Moisture is not declared, so the dry-matter figures assume 5%, and both are high in energy.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

468 kcal/100g

Protein

39.6%

Fat

22.6%

Fibre

4.7%

Ash

4.3%

Dry weight

Protein

41.7%

Fat

23.8%

Fibre

4.9%

Ash

4.5%

Carbs

25.1%

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

61.9%

Carbs

27.8%

Veg

10.3%

Pricing & size