Wainwright's

Wainwright's Grain Free Adult Trays: Lamb with Vegetables review

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

75/100Excellent

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

75/100Excellent

Protein and processingExcellent

Nutritional balanceExcellent

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueExcellent

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

Lamb

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

Lamb70%One species, and a change for the dog who has had enough poultry.
Sweet potato4%The main starch. No cereal on the list.
Dried peas2.5%Equivalent to 8% peas, so fibre more than bulk.
Dried carrots, butternut squash1% each
Minerals
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

Lamb (70%), Sweet Potato (4%), Dried Peas (2.5%, equivalent to 8% peas), Dried Carrots (1%, equivalent to 8% carrots), Butternut Squash (1%), Minerals, 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

Ash, dry matter: 22.4%; Highest in the set; the chicken is 12.0%.
Energy: 119 kcal per 100g; The middle tray, between 85 and 145.
Carbohydrate, dry matter: 11.4%; The lowest; the fish reaches 19.1%.

The red-meat tray, with more bone coming through than on the poultry.

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

118.8 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

10%

Fat

8.5%

Fibre

0.7%

Ash

6.5%

Moisture

71%

Dry weight

Protein

34.5%

Fat

29.3%

Fibre

2.4%

Ash

22.4%

Carbs

11.4%

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%