Wainwright's Mature Dry Food With Superfoods review

1. Wainwright's Mature Dry Food With Superfoods 63.8

All one Good. Typical dry food: Good.

Everything on the front half of the label works in its favour; a heavy carbohydrate load and an unweighed second ingredient hold it level with the typical adult kibble.

• Freshly prepared free run chicken26%Goes in carrying a lot of water.
• Chicken meal19%Brings the protein through cooking.
• Potato flakeSecond on the list and unweighed, where the label falls silent.
• Sweet potato pellets14%
• Sugar beet pellets5%Fibre, not sugar: the sugar is taken out first.
• Vegetable digestA plant-based palatant. No animal in it.
• Poultry oilPoultry could be chicken, turkey, duck or goose.
• Dried carrot, alfalfa, seaweed meal, whole linseed, chicory root extractseaweed 0.5%, linseed 0.2%, chicory 0.1%Iodine, plant omega 3 and a prebiotic.
• Glucosamine, chondroitin, MSM0.054%, 0.039%, 0.034%Printed to three decimal places, the most convincing small print here.
• Blueberry, fennel, nettle, parsley, rosemary, spinach, yucca, peppermint, turmeric0.05% down to 0.005%The superfoods of the name. Seasoning, though rosemary doubles as an antioxidant.

Vitamins A, D3 and E are dosed; the trace elements line is headed and then left blank, so the mineral doses cannot be read.

No moisture declared, so the dry-matter figures rest on an assumed 8%.

One grain-free mature kibble with chicken at 45%, printed as 26% fresh free run chicken and 19% chicken meal. Potato flake, sweet potato and sugar beet pellets replace cereal, and the joint additions each carry a percentage. Moisture is not declared, so the dry-matter figures assume 8%.

Price per kilo

£4.58 (RRP)

Pack

2kg/kg), 12kg/kg)

A 15kg dog eats

175 to 300 g a day, 240 in the middle

Cost per day, 15kg dog

£1.10

For what the analysis shows, the price asks a little more than it gives back.