Wainwright's

Wainwright's Sensitive Puppy Dry Food review

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

72.2/100Excellent

DryPuppy

A salmon puppy kibble in our Excellent band, set apart by an unusually large oil share. Salmon oil at 10% takes the energy to 407 kcal per 100g, well past the 376 typical for puppy kibble. There is no land animal anywhere in it.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Puppies that do better on fish
Pups with sensitive digestions, the brief this recipe answers
Grain-free homes, with sweet potato at 32% doing cereal's job
Fast-growing, busy pups that need the energy
Owners who want joint and gut support printed: krill, mussel extract and chicory root, each with a figure

Worth watching

Krill and green lipped mussel are marine animals too, so a strict exclusion diet has more than salmon to account for
An oily kibble. Introduce it gradually beside the old food
Easy to overfeed on a settled pup

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 puppies of every size. For a big or giant breed pup, get the calcium figure from Wainwright's first, since the pack does not print it.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Puppy

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Salmon

The score, in context

Wainwright's Sensitive Puppy Dry Food 72.2

All one Excellent. Typical dry food: Good.

The recipe is specific and generous; the score gives ground only where the label leaves moisture and calcium undeclared.

What's in it

Freshly prepared Scottish salmon30%Brings its water along
Salmon meal18%Already dried, so it gives more protein than its share implies
Salmon digest3%Palatability, from the same fish
Sweet potato32%Holds the kibble together without cereal; the starch still runs a touch under the typical puppy kibble
Salmon oil10%The entry that shapes this food. Long-chain omega 3 for brain and coat, and a rich bag
Potato proteinLifts the protein figure; not a match for fish on quality
Beet pulp1%
Krill meal, green lipped mussel extract0.9%, 0.05%The joint and marine tail
Seaweed meal, chicory root extract, yucca extract0.1% down to 0.02%

Vitamins A, D3 and E with L-carnitine, and zinc partly as a protein-hydrolysate chelate, with iron, manganese, copper and iodine dosed.

No calcium figure on the label. For a big or giant breed pup, the maker will have to supply it.

Named ingredients

Salmon (51%) (Freshly Prepared Scottish Salmon* 30%, Salmon Meal 18%, Salmon Digest 3%), Sweet Potato (32%), Salmon Oil (10%), Potato Protein, Beet Pulp (1%), 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 puppy kibble built from the sea. Salmon is 51% of it, in fresh, meal and digest forms, sweet potato at 32% stands where cereal would be, and salmon oil adds 10%. Krill meal and green lipped mussel extract are the only other animals. Neither moisture nor calcium is printed, so dry matter works from the 8% assumed for kibble.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

407 kcal/100g

Protein

30%

Fat

19%

Fibre

Ash

Dry weight

Protein

32.6%

Fat

20.7%

Fibre

2.2%

Ash

7.6%

Carbs

36.9%

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

52%

Carbs

37.9%

Veg

0.2%

Oils

10%

Pricing & size