Wainwright's

Wainwright's Grain Free Adult Pouches: Chicken review

Name: Wainwright's Grain Free Adult Pouches: Chicken
Brand: Wainwright's

69.6/100Good

WetAdult

Flavour

A simple pouch with one named animal at 45% and sweet potato for the starch, in chicken or tuna. The chicken sits in our Good band and the tuna a step above in Excellent. The tail is short and thoughtful, and most of it carries a printed share.

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Our view

Likely to suit

A named quantity: chicken or tuna is printed at 45% of the pouch
Single-protein feeding. Each pouch names one animal and nothing else on the list is animal
Grain-avoiding homes, with no cereal on either recipe
Toy and small dogs, for whom a 150g pouch comes close to a whole serving
High protein and modest fat, on the tuna at 57.1% and 14.3% of dry matter

Worth watching

More starch than wet food usually carries: an estimated 27.0% of dry matter on the chicken and 22.4% on the tuna
The tuna's vitamin list names A and E only
The berry extracts have no percentages beside them

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

How this scores

How we score

69.6/100Good

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceExcellent

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adult toy, small, medium and large dogs. A bigger dog needs several pouches a day, so check the label's guide against your dog's weight before buying a case.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

Tuna 73.9
Chicken 69.6

Two recipes across Excellent and Good. Typical wet food: Excellent.

Everything in the pouch is named, and the sweet potato's share of the dry matter is what keeps the chicken a step behind the tuna.

What's in it

Chicken45%Most dogs digest it easily, though its ubiquity means intolerances turn up more often.
Sweet Potato12%The only starch, gentle and easily digested.
Minerals
Olive Oil0.3%A well chosen fat, kind to a coat.
Seaweed Extract0.2%Iodine and a spread of minerals.
Chicory Extract, Yucca Extract0.1%, 0.05%Chicory is the prebiotic.
Blueberry Powder, Cranberry Extract, Pomegranate ExtractTrace level, a flourish.

Vitamins A, D3 and E with zinc at 30.9mg leading the trace elements, all dosed in print.

Named ingredients

Chicken (45%), Sweet Potato (12%), Minerals, Olive Oil (0.3%), Seaweed Extract (0.2%), Chicory Extract (as a source of Prebiotic Fructo-oligosaccharides) (0.1%), Yucca Extract (0.05%), Blueberry Powder, Cranberry Extract, Pomegranate Extract

Against the range

Fat, dry matter: 30.0%; 14.3% on the tuna.
Protein, dry matter: 35.0%; 57.1% on the tuna.
Vitamin D3: Declared; Not on the tuna.

The richer pouch with the fuller vitamin list; the tuna suits a dog being kept trim.

Two 150g pouches on one simple construction: a single named animal at 45% and sweet potato at 12% as the only starch, with no cereal and no second animal. A short tail of olive oil, seaweed, chicory and yucca extracts follows, closing on berry extracts with no amounts beside them.

What changes is the animal, the fat and the vitamin list. The tuna adds sunflower oil at 1.7%, runs much leaner and higher in protein, and declares no vitamin D3.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

94.4 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

Fat

Fibre

0.1%

Ash

1.5%

Moisture

80%

Dry weight

Protein

35%

Fat

30%

Fibre

0.5%

Ash

7.5%

Carbs

27%

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

25.4%

Carbs

12%

Veg

0.3%

Oils

0.3%

Other

17%