Wild Pet Food 80/20 Complete: Duck review

All five recipes reach our Outstanding band, in a format whose typical food sits two bands below, which makes this a proper standout and no narrow win. The label carries the reasons. Animal ingredients come to 80% with every one named and given a percentage, and the produce fraction is declared down to the last botanical. The carbohydrate figure reads like raw food, not a pressed one. Every recipe reads Outstanding on all four pillars. The duck edges the range and the fish sits nearest the lower edge of the band, but all five keep the same company, so let the animal decide and ignore the order.

Ingredients, as declared: *Animal Ingredients (All of UK origin) - 80% - All dehydrated before weighing*, Free Run Duck 79%, Whole Egg 1%, *Fruit/Veggie/Superfood Blend - 20% - All dehydrated before weighing*, Cold-Pressed Sunflower Oil 3%, Carrot 3%, Sweet Potato 3%, Kelp Seaweed 2.5%, Spinach 2.5%, Ground Chia Seeds 2%, Pumpkin 1%, Apple 1%, Blackcurrant 1%, Herb, Botanicals & Superfood Blend 1% (Oregano 0.1%, Chicory Root 0.1%, Ginger 0.1%, Turmeric 0.1%, Black Pepper 0.1%, Echinacea Root 0.1%, Algae Omega 3 Powder 0.1%, Broccoli 0.1%, Green Lipped Mussel Powder 0.1%, Natural Probiotic (Gut Friendly Bacteria - Bacillus Velezensis) 0.0023%)

The 80/20 split is the whole design, and Wild prints it as a heading so you never have to add the list up. The first block is animal ingredients, all of UK origin and all dehydrated before they are weighed. Those percentages therefore describe the pellet in your hand, with no wet weight shrinking away in production. Fruit and vegetables fill the second block alongside the superfoods, quantified just as carefully.

Because there is almost no starch on any of these lists, the analyses read like raw food. Protein converts to between 53.2% and 60.2% of dry matter across the range and carbohydrate to between 8.5% and 15.0%, against the 43.2% that is typical for cold-pressed food. Very little of what goes into the pellet is doing filler work, which is unusual in a format that normally needs starch to bind.

Organs and egg do the quiet work here. Liver appears at 3% in the beef and chicken recipes and at 2% in the Surf & Turf, and whole egg at 1% runs through every one. Very little a dog eats carries more nutrition per gram than liver. The beef recipe goes further still and splits its meat into 60% muscle and 16% carcass, which is where its crude ash figure of 11.0% comes from.

There is no added vitamin and mineral premix on any of these labels. Kelp seaweed at 2.5% covers iodine and a wide mineral spread. Spinach and blackcurrant bring their own micronutrients. Ground chia seeds at 2% and algae omega 3 powder handle the omega 3 side, and the organ meats fill in behind. It is a coherent whole food position and the organ share is what makes it credible. The ask is that you take the ingredients on trust, with no panel to read.

The 1% botanical blend is where the label shows off. Oregano, chicory root, ginger, turmeric, black pepper, echinacea root, broccoli and green lipped mussel powder each sit at 0.1%, with a named probiotic strain at 0.0023%. At those inclusions they are seasoning rather than dosage, and the printed percentages are honest about exactly that. Green lipped mussel appears in every recipe, the single-meat ones included, so it is the entry to note for a dog kept away from shellfish.

Cold pressing keeps the whole thing coherent. Pressing at low temperature, with no cooking and expanding, is gentler on the ingredients heat degrades. Drop the finished pellet in water and it falls apart without swelling. That helps a dog who eats in a hurry. Combined with an energy content near the top of the format, it means portions run modest, so a kitchen scale is a better guide than a cup.

Free run duck at 79%, the single largest meat inclusion anywhere in the range, with whole egg at 1% and no liver on the list. Only this recipe declares a joint supplement, chondroitin at 500mg and glucosamine at 1000mg, printed without a stated basis. The four siblings share the same blend and carry no such line. Duck suits a dog being steered around the everyday meats.

£7.78 a kilo across all five recipes. Bags come in 2.5kg, 6kg, 12kg and 18kg, with a 40kg bulk option behind them.

About 840 kcal a day covers a 15kg adult dog in moderate condition (110 × bodyweight^0.75, the standard maintenance estimate). That is roughly 220 grams a day, and between £1.71 and £1.74 according to the recipe in the bowl.