WildPack Adult: Beef review

All five flavours land in our Outstanding band, and so does the typical adult raw food, so this range is holding its own in the toughest field we score. It settles a shade below the middle of that field, not above it, and in raw that speaks to how fierce the competition is. Nothing is missing from these labels. Protein and processing, nutritional balance and transparency read Outstanding or Excellent across all five, and value reads Outstanding on every flavour. The five sit level, so the choice is genuinely about which animal suits your dog.

Ingredients, as declared: Beef Meat (40%), Turkey with Bone (25%), Beef Tripe (10%), Beef Kidney (5%), Beef Liver (5%), Butternut Squash, Seasonal Green Vegetables, Parsnip, Blueberry, Raspberry, Kelp, Hemp Oil, Wheatgrass Powder.

The construction never changes. A muscle meat or a with-bone cut leads. A second animal supplies whatever the first does not. Tripe and organ meats follow with percentages against them, and a short plant tail closes the list. Everything animal is named and numbered; the plant entries are named but not percentaged, which is the one place the labelling relaxes.

This is offal doing real work rather than making up a marketing line. Tripe appears on every label, at 10% in the beef and lamb recipes, and kidney and liver follow behind it. The stomach of a grazing animal, tripe has been prized by raw feeders for decades, for its richness and for how enthusiastically dogs eat it. Most of an animal's vitamin and mineral load sits in the liver and the kidney. A raw recipe without them usually needs a premix to fill the gap.

Bone comes in through the cuts, with no separate line for it: turkey with bone in the beef recipe, chicken with bone in the lamb and the chicken, duck with bone in the venison pairing. The ash figures show it moving, from 5.7% of dry matter on the beef to 11.8% on the turkey. What no label prints is a calcium figure, so the bone share is something you read from the cuts and the ash.

The plant tail is short and sensible: butternut squash, parsnip, blueberry and raspberry, with kelp for iodine, hemp oil for omega fats and wheatgrass powder to finish. Seasonal green vegetables is the one loose entry, and it is loose by design, since the greens change with the growing year. Wheatgrass, despite the name, carries no wheat gluten, so a wheat-sensitive dog has nothing to navigate here.

The analysis reads like meat, as it should. Protein converts to between 30.6% and 38.2% of dry matter and fat to between 28.9% and 48.6%, a properly wide spread. A swap from the turkey to the beef is a real change in richness. Carbohydrate sits near nothing on four of the five. The Venison & Duck estimate of 21.1% of dry matter is the exception. It is an artefact of estimating by difference against a list that carries no starch whatsoever.

Beef meat at 40% is joined by turkey with bone at 25%, and every organ entry is beef: tripe at 10%, then kidney and liver at 5% each. This is the richest and most energy dense flavour of the five, fat converting to 48.6% of dry matter at an estimated 194 kcal per 100g, so portions run smallest here.

£6.85 a kilo across all five flavours. Each one comes as a 1kg box made up of two 500g packs, which is the only size sold, and WildPack sets a 6kg minimum order.

Feeding a 15kg adult in moderate condition takes about 840 kcal a day by the usual maintenance estimate (110 × bodyweight^0.75). That means portions of 434 to 532 grams and a daily figure of £2.97 to £3.64. The spread follows energy density, so the leaner flavours feed in larger amounts.