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Waita Freeze Dried Complete Food Bulk Pack: Chicken Formula review

84.4/100Outstanding
Freeze-driedPuppyAdult

Freeze dried food with nothing in it but one animal, and all three formulas in our Outstanding band. Each label runs to four entries, muscle meat, meat with bone and two organs, every one with its percentage. The long, line-by-line supplement panel behind that short list is where most of the formulation work has gone.

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Our view

Likely to suit

  • Anyone who reads labels and wishes they were shorter
  • Dogs on an elimination diet. One animal carries every entry
  • Owners who want bone and organ in the bowl without handling raw meat
  • Dogs that need a lot of energy from a small volume
  • Puppies, adults and seniors alike, all listed on every formula
  • Households that get through food quickly, as each formula comes in one large pack

Worth watching

  • Small portions that are easy to overshoot. Weigh them until your eye adjusts
  • Pieces that are best rehydrated, more so for a dog that drinks little
  • One animal per pack, so variety means rotating between packs

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

How this scores

How we score
84.4/100Outstanding
Protein and processingOutstanding
Nutritional balanceOutstanding
TransparencyOutstanding
ValueOutstanding

The details

Dog fit

Listed for puppies, adults and seniors of every size. The label gives no calcium figure, so a large-breed puppy owner should ask Waita for it before ordering.

Food type

Freeze-dried

Life stage

Puppy, Adult, Senior

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context
  1. Duck Formula 84.5
  2. Chicken Formula 84.4
  3. Rabbit Formula 83.6

All three Outstanding. Typical dry food: Good.

Three labels this closely matched land together, level with the best freeze dried food we have scored.

What's in it
  • Chicken meat76%The biggest muscle meat share of the three.
  • Chicken with bone15%Ground bone is where the calcium and phosphorus come from, in the animal's own ratio.
  • Chicken liver4%Vitamin B12, vitamin A and copper at levels muscle meat never reaches.
  • Chicken heart4%Lean protein and taurine.

Taurine, choline, two prebiotics and two named live strains, a full B group, and selenium in both yeast and sodium selenite form.

No calcium figure on the label, the number a large-breed puppy's owner looks for.

Named ingredients

76% Chicken Meat, 15% Chicken with Bone, 4% Chicken Liver, 4% Chicken Heart, 2025-12-10_at_01.12.39.png`):_ Chicken Meat 76%, Chicken with Bone 15%, Chicken Liver 4%, Chicken Heart 4%
Against the range
Muscle meat
76%
75% on the Duck and the Rabbit
Fat, dry matter
21.7%
Lowest of the three; the Duck reaches 27.2%
Organ
Liver and heart
Duck has heart and liver, Rabbit lung and liver

The gentlest start of the three for a dog new to this kind of feeding.

All three labels are built the same way and stop at four entries: muscle meat first, meat with bone at 15%, then organ. Every entry is named and percentaged, and there is no vegetable, grain or oil on any of them. Liver appears in all three.

In dry matter, protein runs from 60.9% to 64.1% and fat from 21.7% to 27.2%, with the carbohydrate estimate never above 5.5%. The same supplement panel sits behind every formula, from taurine and choline to two named probiotic strains.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy
390.5 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

58%

Fat

20%

Fibre

3%

Ash

6%

Moisture

8%

Dry weight

Protein

63%

Fat

21.7%

Fibre

3.3%

Ash

6.5%

Carbs

5.5%

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

100%

Pricing & size
Price per kilo
£42.80 (RRP)
Pack
2.5 kg - this is the only size in which the Bulk Pack formulas are sold
A 15kg dog eats
60 to 150 g a day, 105 in the middle
Cost per day, 15kg dog
£4.49

Middle of the market for a freeze dried food, and fair value for the quality in the pack.

Ingredients and nutrition are taken from manufacturer data. Retailer pricing is not yet live for this food.

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Reviewed by Off the Leash Editorial

Last updated 28 August 2026