Wainwright's

Wainwright's Grain Free Adult Dry Food: Lamb with Vegetables review

Name: Wainwright's Grain Free Adult Dry Food: Lamb with Vegetables
Brand: Wainwright's

63.6/100Good

DryAdult

Flavour

Wainwright's grain-free kibble in lamb or turkey, and both settle in our Good band. The meat is written out in four separate shares, meal, fresh, fat and digest, so you can see how the headline was built. Sweet potato and potato flake stand in for cereal.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Cereal-free households, with no grain on either list
Owners who like the meat broken down, every share with its percentage
A dog kept to one animal, on the turkey, which names nothing else
Digestion, with beet pulp and a little chicory root extract
Two dogs on different meats. Both recipes follow one pattern and swap easily

Worth watching

Poultry oil in the lamb, so it cannot rule out birds
A heavy starch load, most of all on the turkey
Potato protein on both lists, no substitute for the meat above it

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

How this scores

How we score

63.6/100Good

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balancePoor

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adult dogs of every size. The two recipes give different daily amounts for the same dog, so check the table on the bag you buy and let the waistline settle it.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Lamb

The score, in context

Lamb 63.6
Turkey 61.0

All two Good. Typical dry food: Good.

A food that plays it straight: every animal entry named and quantified, held level with the middle of the shelf by how much the potato side carries.

What's in it

Lamb meal22.5%Does the protein work.
Freshly prepared lamb, lamb fat, lamb digest5%, 4.5%, 2%The digest is what makes the kibble taste of something.
Potato flakeTakes up the slack behind a smaller sweet potato share.
Sweet potato20%
Potato protein
Whole peas5%Whole, so fibre and vitamins come with them.
Poultry oilA bird, in a lamb recipe.
Beet pulp, whole linseed2% eachFibre, and plant omega 3.
Monosodium phosphate, dried carrot, seaweed meal, chicory root extract0.5% down to 0.1%
Broccoli, parsley, rosehip, thyme, yucca, spearmintSeasoning.

Every trace mineral dosed, as sulphates and oxides, with mixed tocopherols as the preservative.

Poultry oil on the list, so this recipe is not lamb and nothing else.

Named ingredients

Lamb (34.0%) (Lamb Meal 22.5%, Freshly Prepared Lamb 5%, Lamb Fat 4.5%, Lamb Digest 2%), Potato Flake, Sweet Potato (20%), Potato Protein, Whole Peas (5%), Poultry Oil, Beet Pulp (2%), Whole Linseed (2%), Monosodium Phosphate, Dried Carrot (0.5% equivalent to 4% Carrot), Seaweed Meal (0.5%), Chicory Root Extract (as a source of Prebiotic FOS) (0.1%), Dried Broccoli (0.05% equivalent to 0.39% Broccoli), Dried Parsley, Dried Rosehip, Dried Thyme, Yucca Extract (0.02%), Dried Spearmint.

Against the range

Sweet potato: 20%; 33% on the turkey
Fat: 13.0%; 10.0% on the turkey
Ash: 10.5%; 7.5% on the turkey
Carbohydrate, dry matter: 47.9%; 52.6% on the turkey
Other animals on the label: Poultry oil; None on the turkey

The richer of the pair, with a little less starch, for a dog that is fine with poultry.

Each recipe splits its meat into four quantified entries: meal, freshly prepared meat, fat and digest, about a third of the bag in all. The meal does the protein work. Sweet potato and potato flake carry the starch with whole peas at 5% and potato protein, and no cereal appears on either list.

Whole linseed at 2% is the only omega 3, with no fish anywhere. The vegetables, herbs and the sulphate and oxide mineral panel are shared. What varies is the animal, the sweet potato share, and poultry oil, which only the lamb carries.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

339 kcal/100g

Protein

22%

Fat

13%

Fibre

2.5%

Ash

10.5%

Moisture

Dry weight

Protein

23.9%

Fat

14.1%

Fibre

2.7%

Ash

11.4%

Carbs

47.9%

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

34%

Carbs

53.5%

Veg

3.9%

Oils

3.4%

Other

5.2%

Pricing & size