Wainwright's

Wainwright's Mature Dry Food: Lamb & Rice review

Name: Wainwright's Mature Dry Food: Lamb & Rice
Brand: Wainwright's

57.6/100Good

DryAdultSenior

Flavour

One senior recipe built three times, with only the animal swapped. Each declares its meat split, 28% dried against 5% fresh, which is the honest way to show what reaches the bowl. Taurine, glucosamine and chondroitin are all printed with a dose.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Dogs settling into later years: taurine at 1000 mg on every label
Rotating flavours, as lamb, salmon and turkey share one plan
Stiffening joints, with glucosamine at 0.05% and chondroitin at 0.015% in print
An adult and a senior under one roof, since every bag covers both
Dogs long used to cereal, rice and whole grain barley carrying the starch

Worth watching

Rice and barley in all three, for a dog kept off grain
Carbohydrate near half of dry matter in every version, above the typical adult dry food
Glucosamine and chondroitin come from animal material, so a single-animal plan is not quite covered

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

How this scores

How we score

57.6/100Good

Protein and processingAverage

Nutritional balancePoor

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adult and senior dogs of every size. The labels ask 175 to 315 grams a day for a dog of 12kg to 25kg, so check the bowl against the waistline.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult, Senior

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Lamb

The score, in context

Turkey 60.2
Salmon 59.4
Lamb 57.6

All three Good. Typical dry food: Good.

The three sit close enough together that taste should decide, with the printed meat split doing the most for them.

What's in it

Lamb: dried lamb 28%, freshly prepared lamb 5%33%The split is printed, and the dried part is what arrives in the bowl.
Rice26%
Whole grain barley21%
Beet pulp6%Most of the fibre, soluble and insoluble together.
Whole ground oats4.5%
Rapeseed oil
Dried peas, dried carrots3%, 1%Declared with their fresh equivalents, 12.5% and 8%.
Linseed2%Plant omega 3, slower to reach the skin than the marine kind.
Seaweed, glucosamine, yucca extract, chondroitin0.2% down to 0.015%Seaweed for iodine; yucca for what happens at the other end.

Taurine at 1000 mg for the heart, vitamin E at 150 mg, and zinc, iron, manganese, copper, iodine and selenium as sulphates and oxides, all printed.

Crude ash is 10.0%, the highest of the three, the mineral and bone share that comes with red meat.

Named ingredients

Lamb (33%) (Dried Lamb 28%, Freshly Prepared Lamb 5%), Rice (26%), Whole Grain Barley (21%), Beet Pulp (6%), Whole Ground Oats (4.5%), Rapeseed Oil, Dried Peas (3% equivalent to 12.5% Peas), Linseed (2%), Dried Carrots (1% equivalent to 8% Carrots), Seaweed (0.2%), Glucosamine (0.05%), Yucca Extract (0.02%), Chondroitin (0.015%)

Against the range

Protein, as fed: 22.5%; Lowest; turkey reads 25.0%.
Ash, as fed: 10.0%; Highest; turkey is 6.5%.
Beet pulp: 6%; 6.5% salmon, 7% turkey.
Nutritional balance: Poor; Average on the other two.

The natural pick for an older dog that never took to poultry.

Every bag puts 33% into one animal, printed as 28% dried and 5% freshly prepared, so the dried portion is what really reaches the bowl. Rice at 26%, whole grain barley and whole ground oats at 4.5% make up the plant base, with beet pulp from 6% to 7% for fibre. Dried peas and carrots are declared with their fresh equivalents.

The same vitamin and mineral panel runs through all three, with taurine at 1000 mg and the trace minerals as sulphates and oxides. Only the animal, the barley and the beet pulp shift between them.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

338 kcal/100g

Protein

22.5%

Fat

8.5%

Fibre

3.5%

Ash

10%

Dry weight

Protein

24.5%

Fat

9.2%

Fibre

3.8%

Ash

10.9%

Carbs

51.6%

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%

Carbs

60.8%

Veg

1.5%

Oils

2.6%

Other

2.1%

Pricing & size