Wainwright's

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

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

61/100Good

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

61/100Good

Protein and processingAverage

Nutritional balanceAverage

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

Turkey

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

Turkey meal22%The protein carrier.
Freshly prepared turkey, turkey fat, turkey digest5%, 4.5%, 2%Fresh meat loses its water in the oven.
Sweet potato33%A much bigger share than the lamb's.
Potato flake
Whole peas5%
Potato proteinPlant protein lifting the figure.
Beet pulp, whole linseed2.5%, 2%Linseed is the only omega 3.
Dried carrot, seaweed meal, chicory root extract0.5% down to 0.1%
Broccoli, parsley, rosehip, thyme, yucca, spearmint

The same panel as the lamb: every trace mineral dosed as sulphates and oxides, with vitamins A, D3 and E.

Named ingredients

Turkey (33.5%) (Turkey Meal 22%, Freshly Prepared Turkey 5%, Turkey Fat 4.5%, Turkey Digest 2%), Sweet Potato (33%), Potato Flake, Whole Peas (5%), Potato Protein, Beet Pulp (2.5%), Whole Linseed (2%), 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

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

The cleaner choice for a dog on a strict one-species plan.

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

345 kcal/100g

Protein

23%

Fat

10%

Fibre

Ash

7.5%

Moisture

Dry weight

Protein

25%

Fat

10.9%

Fibre

3.3%

Ash

8.2%

Carbs

52.6%

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

33.5%

Carbs

57.4%

Veg

5.6%

Other

3.6%

Pricing & size