Wainwright's

Wainwright's Mature Dry Food: Turkey & Rice review

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

60.2/100Good

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

60.2/100Good

Protein and processingAverage

Nutritional balanceAverage

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

Turkey

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

Turkey: dried turkey 28%, freshly prepared turkey 5%33%
Rice26%
Whole grain barley20%A point less than the other two.
Beet pulp7%The most of the three.
Whole ground oats4.5%
Rapeseed oil
Dried peas, dried carrots3%, 1%Shown against 12.5% and 8% fresh.
Linseed2%
Seaweed, glucosamine, yucca extract, chondroitin0.2% down to 0.015%

The shared panel: taurine at 1000 mg, vitamin E at 150 mg, and printed trace minerals as sulphates and oxides.

Named ingredients

Turkey (33%) (Dried Turkey 28%, Freshly Prepared Turkey 5%), Rice (26%), Whole Grain Barley (20%), Beet Pulp (7%), 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

Fat, as fed: 10.0%; 8.5% on lamb and salmon.
Protein, as fed: 25.0%; Highest; lamb is 22.5%.
Ash, as fed: 6.5%; Lowest; lamb is 10.0%.

The richest of the three, for an older dog whose appetite has not dimmed.

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

345 kcal/100g

Protein

25%

Fat

10%

Fibre

3.5%

Ash

6.5%

Dry weight

Protein

27.2%

Fat

10.9%

Fibre

3.8%

Ash

7.1%

Carbs

51%

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