Wainwright's

Wainwright's Puppy Dry Food With Superfoods review

Name: Wainwright's Puppy Dry Food With Superfoods
Brand: Wainwright's

65.8/100Good

DryPuppy

A Good puppy kibble kept to one animal: fresh chicken, chicken meal and chicken fat make up 50% of the recipe. Potato and sweet potato do the binding. The panel stops before calcium, which is the number a big pup's owner looks for first.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Puppies kept to one meat. Chicken is the only animal on the list
Grain-free homes, with potato, potato starch and sweet potato at 4%
Gut support named on the label: chicory root extract at 0.1% for prebiotic FOS
Growing pups with a healthy appetite, on 28.0% protein and 18.5% fat

Worth watching

No calcium figure. Owners of a large or giant pup should ask the maker
Potato protein, so not all of the declared protein comes from the bird
Glucosamine and chondroitin at the tail, a nod to joints and not a working dose

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

How this scores

How we score

65.8/100Good

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceGood

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Listed for puppies of every size. Feed to the chart for the adult weight your pup is heading towards, and for a large breed get the calcium figure first.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Puppy

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

Wainwright's Puppy Dry Food With Superfoods 65.8

All one Good. Typical dry food: Good.

It leans above the middle of the puppy field; the analysis panel, which stops short of calcium, is what holds it back.

What's in it

Freshly prepared free run chicken26%Much of it water, which the oven sees off.
Chicken meal15.5%Goes in dry and supplies more of the protein for its smaller share.
Chicken fat8.5%
Potato, potato starchThe binding. No cereal anywhere.
Potato proteinA plant protein, worth less to a growing pup than the chicken.
Sweet potato4%
Vegetable stock, minerals, dried carrot, alfalfaSpecific entries, not category terms.
Beet pulp, linseed, seaweed meal0.5% eachGentle fibre, plant omega 3 and iodine.
Chicory root extract0.1%Prebiotic FOS.
Spinach, blueberry, herbs, yucca, glucosamine, chondroitin0.05% down to 0.015%Garnish.

Vitamins A, D3 and E with zinc, iron, manganese, copper, iodine and selenium, each dosed, preserved with mixed tocopherols.

No calcium figure on a growth food sold for every size. Ask the maker before rearing a large breed pup on it.

Named ingredients

Chicken (50%) (Freshly Prepared Free Run Chicken 26%, Chicken Meal 15.5%, Chicken Fat 8.5%), Potato, Potato Starch, Potato Protein, Sweet Potato (4%) Vegetable Stock, Minerals, Dried Carrot, Alfalfa, Beet Pulp (0.5%), Linseed (0.5%), Seaweed Meal (0.5%), Chicory root extract (as a source of prebiotic FOS) (0.1%), Dried Spinach (0.05%, equivalent to 0.45% Spinach), Dried Blueberry (0.05%, equivalent to 0.3% Blueberries), Dried Nettle, Dried Parsley, Dried Rosemary, Yucca Extract (0.02%), Glucosamine (0.02%), Chondroitin (0.015%) Turmeric, Dried Spearmint

Against the range

A single chicken-only growth kibble on potato, with no cereal and no other animal on the list. The entries are specific where own-label growth foods often stay vague, and a run of dried botanicals closes the label.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

376 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

28%

Fat

18.5%

Fibre

Ash

Moisture

Dry weight

Protein

30.8%

Fat

20.3%

Fibre

2.2%

Ash

8.8%

Carbs

37.9%

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

50%

Added water

Carbs

37.4%

Veg

4.6%

Other

Pricing & size