Wainwright's

Wainwright's Sensitive Adult Dry Food review

Name: Wainwright's Sensitive Adult Dry Food
Brand: Wainwright's

72.2/100Excellent

DryAdult

An Excellent-band salmon kibble where the short list is the whole design. Nine entries before the vitamins, more than half of them salmon, and one starch. For a dog whose gut objects to complication, there is very little here to be the culprit.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Dogs with unsettled digestion
Dogs that must avoid land meat
Skin and coat, with salmon oil at 8% and part of the zinc chelated
Dogs happier off cereal. Sweet potato is the one starch
Busy dogs with plenty to burn, at 379 kcal per 100g

Worth watching

Krill meal and green lipped mussel, both shellfish, so it is marine throughout, not salmon alone
An energy dense bowl, so measure the scoop for a sofa dog

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

How this scores

How we score

72.2/100Excellent

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceGood

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueExcellent

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults of every size. The label asks 160 to 280 grams a day for a dog between 12kg and 25kg, less than most, so weigh it.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Salmon

The score, in context

Wainwright's Sensitive Adult Dry Food 72.2

All one Excellent. Typical dry food: Good.

A list this short is easy to score well; a single plant ingredient and mostly oxide and sulphate minerals keep it from the band above.

What's in it

Freshly prepared Scottish salmon30%Largely water, which the oven claims.
Salmon meal22%The part that carries protein through to the kibble.
Salmon digest3%A palatant, and named.
Sweet potato26%The only starch, so only one thing to take out if it is the problem.
Salmon oil8%Marine omega 3 ready made, the fat a coat responds to fastest.
Beet pulp8%The fibre.
Krill meal0.9%Shellfish, another marine omega source.
Seaweed meal, chicory root extract0.1%, 0.05%Iodine and a prebiotic.
Green lipped mussel extract, yucca extract0.05%, 0.02%

Vitamins A and E with L-carnitine, and zinc split between oxide and a chelate of protein hydrolysates; the other trace minerals are oxides and sulphates.

Moisture is not declared, so the dry-matter figures assume a standard 8%.

Named ingredients

Salmon (55%) (Freshly Prepared Scottish Salmon* 30%, Salmon Meal 22%, Salmon Digest 3%), Sweet Potato (26%), Salmon Oil (8%), Beet Pulp (8%), Krill Meal (0.9%), Seaweed Meal (0.1%), Chicory Root Extract (as a source of Prebiotic FOS) (0.05%), Green Lipped Mussel Extract (0.05%), Yucca Extract (0.02%).

Against the range

One salmon kibble on a nine-entry list. Salmon makes up 55% in three declared forms, sweet potato at 26% is the only starch, and salmon oil at 8% brings the fat. Every animal entry comes from the sea. Moisture is not declared, so the dry-matter figures assume 8%.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

379.2 kcal/100g

Protein

30%

Fat

17%

Fibre

Ash

10%

Dry weight

Protein

32.6%

Fat

18.5%

Fibre

3.3%

Ash

10.9%

Carbs

34.7%

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

57%

Carbs

34.7%

Veg

0.2%

Oils

8.2%

Pricing & size