Wainwright's

Wainwright's Sensitive Mature Dry Food review

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

64.8/100Good

DryAdultSenior

A Good senior version of Wainwright's short salmon list, made gentler for an older dog. Fat comes down to 12.0% because rapeseed oil replaces a heavy fish oil. The joint set is printed in percentages, with glucosamine, MSM, chondroitin and green lipped mussel all in one bowl.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Older dogs whose digestion is easily upset
Seniors kept off land meat: everything animal here came from the sea
Ageing joints, with glucosamine at 0.04%, MSM at 0.04% and chondroitin at 0.029% printed
A steadier fat load than a younger dog needs
Cereal-free feeding, sweet potato the only starch

Worth watching

Krill and mussel alongside the salmon, so this is marine, not single fish
Sweet potato at 35% is a big share for one plant, and carbohydrate reaches 42.8% of dry matter
Marine omega 3 comes only from the salmon and krill, in a smaller helping than a fish oil gives
Glucosamine and chondroitin are made from animal material, so think twice for a dog held to fish alone

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

How this scores

How we score

64.8/100Good

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceAverage

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adult and senior dogs of every size. Moisture is not declared, so the dry matter figures assume 8%; start mid-table and let the waistline settle it.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult, Senior

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Salmon

The score, in context

Wainwright's Sensitive Mature Dry Food 64.8

All one Good. Typical dry food: Good.

The adult recipe with the dials turned back for age, and the open labelling does more for the score than the analysis.

What's in it

Freshly prepared Scottish salmon30%Mostly water, which cooking takes out.
Salmon meal, salmon digest17%, 3%The meal is what lands in the bowl and keeps protein at 29.9% of dry matter.
Sweet potato35%The only starch, which keeps the list of possible culprits short.
Beet pulp8%The fibre.
Rapeseed oilIn place of a fish oil, so the fat line is softer.
Krill meal0.9%Adds marine omega 3.
Seaweed meal, chicory root extract0.1%, 0.05%Iodine and a prebiotic.
Green lipped mussel extract0.05%The usual shellfish choice for stiffness.
Glucosamine, MSM, chondroitin0.04%, 0.04%, 0.029%
Yucca extract0.02%For what comes out at the far end.

Vitamins A and E with L-carnitine, trace minerals mostly as sulphates and oxides, and part of the zinc as a protein hydrolysate chelate, the form absorbed most readily.

Named ingredients

Salmon (50%) (Freshly Prepared Scottish Salmon* 30%, Salmon Meal 17%, Salmon Digest 3%), Sweet Potato (35%), Beet Pulp (8%), Rapeseed Oil, 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%), Glucosamine (0.04%), MSM (0.04%), Chondroitin (0.029%), Yucca Extract (0.02%)

Against the range

One senior kibble on a short marine list. Salmon makes up 50%, printed in three parts, with krill meal and green lipped mussel the only other animals. Sweet potato at 35% is the only starch, and rapeseed oil stands in for a poured fish oil, which keeps the fat line down.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

336.1 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

27.5%

Fat

12%

Fibre

3.1%

Ash

10%

Dry weight

Protein

29.9%

Fat

13%

Fibre

3.4%

Ash

10.9%

Carbs

42.8%

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

51%

Carbs

43%

Veg

0.2%

Oils

5.8%

Other

0.1%

Pricing & size