Wainwright's

Wainwright's Grain Free Adult Trays: Fish review

Name: Wainwright's Grain Free Adult Trays: Fish
Brand: Wainwright's

62.6/100Good

WetAdult

Flavour

Four grain-free trays built the same way: 70% named animal, a short plant list with figures beside it, and a garden of trace extras. Three sit in our Excellent band, the turkey a shade ahead, and the white fish is a step below in Good. Only the animal changes between them, which makes rotation simple.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Label readers, as every tray prints its animal share
Dogs that need one named animal: chicken, turkey and lamb each keep to a single species
Grain-avoiding households; the starch is sweet potato, peas and squash
Rotation feeders, as the four differ in the animal and nothing else
Medium, large and giant dogs, where the maker points the tray
A leaner dinner from the fish, at 16.7% fat on a dry matter basis

Worth watching

White fish with no species named
More bone on the lamb and fish, with ash at 22.4% and 19.6% of dry matter
Energy swings from 85 to 145 kcal per 100g, so reset portions when you switch

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

How this scores

How we score

62.6/100Good

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adult dogs of medium, large and giant size. The label guide for a dog of 12kg to 25kg is 493.8 to 888.8 grams a day, and it shifts with the flavour's energy.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Fish

The score, in context

Turkey 76.0
Chicken 75.9
Lamb 75.0
Fish 62.6

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

Keeping pace with the better wet recipes in a strong field, with the turkey a shade ahead and the fish a band behind.

What's in it

White fish70%No species named, so a strict fish-avoidance plan cannot rest on it.
Sweet potato4%The main starch. No cereal on the list.
Dried peas2.5%Equivalent to 8% peas, so fibre more than bulk.
Minerals
Dried carrots, butternut squash1% each
Dried alfalfa, apple
Dried seaweed0.12%Iodine and a spread of minerals.
Dried herbs: parsley, rosemary, fennel, marigold flowersNo individual amounts.
Flaxseed oil, chicory root powder, yucca extract0.08% down to 0.005%Chicory is a prebiotic fibre. Trace level, all of it.

The same panel on all four trays, every entry with a figure: vitamins A, D3 and E, with zinc, iron, copper and iodine.

Named ingredients

White Fish (70%), Sweet Potato (4%), Dried Peas (2.5%, equivalent to 8% peas), Minerals, Dried Carrots (1%, equivalent to 8% carrots), Butternut Squash (1%), Dried Alfalfa, Apple, Dried Seaweed (0.12%), Dried Herbs (Parsley, Rosemary, Fennel, Marigold Flowers), Flaxseed Oil (0.08%), Chicory Root Powder (as a source of Prebiotic Fructo-oligosaccharide) (0.05%), Yucca Extract (0.005%)

Against the range

Fat, dry matter: 16.7%; Much the leanest; the others run from 29.3% to 36.7%.
Protein, dry matter: 41.7%; Highest of the four.
Energy: 85 kcal per 100g; The lightest; the chicken is 145.
Band: Good; Excellent on the three meat trays.

The leaner dinner of the set, a step behind the meat trays on our scoring.

All four trays declare 70% of one named animal: chicken, turkey, lamb or white fish. The plant side is small and figured, with sweet potato at 4%, dried peas at 2.5%, dried carrots and butternut squash at 1% each, and no cereal on any list. The additive panel is identical across the four.

What moves is the analysis. Energy runs from an estimated 85 kcal per 100g on the fish to 145 on the chicken, and ash from 12.0% of dry matter on the chicken to 22.4% on the lamb.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

85.1 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

10%

Fat

Fibre

0.7%

Ash

4.7%

Moisture

76%

Dry weight

Protein

41.7%

Fat

16.7%

Fibre

2.9%

Ash

19.6%

Carbs

19.1%

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

70%

Added water

12.7%

Carbs

6.5%

Veg

6.3%

Oils

0.1%

Other

4.4%