Waitrose

Waitrose Supreme Wet: Beef with Potatoes review

Name: Waitrose Supreme Wet: Beef with Potatoes
Brand: Waitrose

50.3/100Good

WetAdult

Flavour

Waitrose's step up from its everyday wet food, in 300g trays with a named animal doing most of the work. The thing that sets it apart on a supermarket shelf is the 60%: beef or chicken pinned down inside a category term that usually tells you nothing. Both trays land in our Good band.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Dogs on a single meat. Each tray puts its named animal at 60%
Owners who would sooner feed potato than an unnamed cereal
A leaner dinner: fat converts to 22.5% of dry matter in the beef and 27.5% in the chicken
A little fish oil in the bowl, declared at 0.2% on both
Smaller dogs and single servings, as a 300g tray gets used up in one go

Worth watching

The remaining animal content sits unnamed inside meat and animal derivatives
Fish oil in both, so neither is a fish free dinner
Various sugars on the beef tray only
No dosed vitamin or trace element panel on either label

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

How this scores

How we score

50.3/100Good

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyAverage

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults of every size. A 15kg dog eats roughly 1050 grams a day fed to the label, so a bigger dog goes through several trays.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Beef

The score, in context

Chicken 53.3
Beef 50.3

All two Good. Typical wet food: Excellent.

A strong nutritional balance reading carries both trays, and transparency is the honest sticking point that holds them back.

What's in it

Meat and animal derivatives (beef)60% beefMost of the animal content named. What else sits inside the category term is not.
Dried potatoes2.0%Equivalent to 9.3% potatoes. The only starch, mild and familiar.
Minerals
Various sugarsOnly on this tray.
Fish oil0.2%Omega 3 for skin and coat over time. Puts fish in the bowl.
Chicory roots powder0.1%Inulin, a prebiotic fibre.

The only tray in the range with various sugars on the list.

Named ingredients

Meat and animal derivatives (60% beef), vegetables (2.0% dried potatoes, equivalent to 9.3% potatoes), minerals, various sugars, oils and fats (0.2% fish oil), derivatives of vegetable origin (0.1% chicory roots powder)

Against the range

Meat: 60% beef; 60% chicken on the other tray
Fat, dry matter: 22.5%; 27.5% on the chicken
Energy: 82 kcal per 100g; About 89 on the chicken
Sugars: Various sugars listed; None on the chicken

The leaner of the two trays, if the sugars on the list do not bother you.

Both trays open on meat and animal derivatives with 60% named inside it, beef in one and chicken in the other; the rest of the animal content is not named. Dried potatoes at 2.0% are the only starch, and both carry fish oil at 0.2% and chicory roots powder at 0.1%. Protein converts to 50.0% of dry matter in each. Only the beef tray lists various sugars, and neither label prints a dosed vitamin or trace element panel.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

82 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

10%

Fat

4.5%

Fibre

0.5%

Ash

2.5%

Moisture

80%

Dry weight

Protein

50%

Fat

22.5%

Fibre

2.5%

Ash

12.5%

Carbs

12.5%

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

44.8%

Added water

15%

Carbs

13.2%

Veg

16.1%

Oils

2.9%

Other

8.1%