Wainwright's

Wainwright's Mature Trays: Turkey with Brown Rice review

Name: Wainwright's Mature Trays: Turkey with Brown Rice
Brand: Wainwright's

73/100Excellent

WetAdultSenior

An Excellent turkey and brown rice tray for older dogs, with turkey at 68% and no other meat on the list. A senior tray need not be a blander adult food, and this one is not. The label does leave out its moisture figure, so the dry matter conversions rest on an assumed 78%.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Older dogs with a healthy appetite, since the meat share stays high
Owners who want joint ingredients named, both declared on the tray
A gentle grain: brown rice at 4% is all the cereal there is
Medium dogs and up, where the maker points it
Turkey-fed dogs. The whole animal share is one named bird

Worth watching

No moisture figure, so the dry matter numbers are a guide and no carbohydrate estimate is possible
The joint pair at 0.005% each is small, so keep any prescribed supplement going
Seaweed, alfalfa and pear listed without percentages

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

How this scores

How we score

73/100Excellent

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueExcellent

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults and seniors from medium size up. The tray's feeding table is written around puppy ages, so start from our estimate for an adult and adjust by condition.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult, Senior

Breed size

Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Turkey

The score, in context

Turkey 73.0

All one Excellent. Typical wet food: Excellent.

Keeps pace with the general wet shelf on turkey at 68% and a short, fully named list, though the missing moisture figure leaves the dry matter numbers as a guide.

What's in it

Turkey68%Lean and easy to digest, doing nearly all the work in the tray.
Brown rice4%
Dried peas, dried carrots2.5%, 1%Each equivalent to 8% fresh.
Sweet potato1%
Minerals, dried alfalfa, pear
Dried seaweed, dried herbsParsley, rosemary, fennel and marigold flowers.
Flaxseed oil, chicory root powder0.08%, 0.05%Chicory as a prebiotic fibre.
Glucosamine, chondroitin0.005% eachAdded deliberately, in small amounts. A vet's joint plan stays in charge.
Yucca extract0.005%

The brand's standard tray panel: vitamins A, D3 and E with zinc, iron, copper and iodine.

Moisture is not declared, so the dry matter protein and fat figures could move a fair way either side.

Named ingredients

Turkey (68%), Brown Rice (4%), Dried Peas (2.5%, equivalent to 8% peas), Dried Carrots (1%, equivalent to 8% carrots), Sweet Potato (1%), Minerals, Dried Alfalfa, Pear, Dried Seaweed, Dried Herbs (Parsley, Rosemary, Fennel, Marigold Flowers), Flaxseed Oil (0.08%), Chicory Root Powder (as a source of Prebiotic Fructo-oligosaccharide) (0.05%), Glucosamine (0.005%), Chondroitin (0.005%), Yucca Extract (0.005%)

Against the range

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

123.5 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

11%

Fat

10%

Fibre

0.7%

Ash

4.5%

Dry weight

Protein

50%

Fat

45.5%

Fibre

3.2%

Ash

20.5%

Carbs

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

68%

Added water

14%

Carbs

7.5%

Veg

6.2%

Oils

0.1%

Other

4.2%