Wildways

Wildways Adult Dry: Salmon with Herring review

Name: Wildways Adult Dry: Salmon with Herring
Brand: Wildways

68.3/100Good

DryAdult

Flavour

One grain-free recipe built properly, then rebuilt around a different pair of animals at the top. The animal content is the biggest part of every bag and is named to the species each time. Pick on the meat that suits your dog: the listings run from our Good band into Excellent.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Owners who like animals spelled out, with a fresh meat at 40% and a second named protein at 26% on every label
Dogs kept away from cereal. Peas, chickpeas and pumpkin carry the starch
Rotation feeders; the build holds and only the species at the top changes
Stiffer or older dogs, with glucosamine at 0.026% and chondroitin sulphate at 0.018% declared
A dog bored of the everyday meats, who might take to buffalo
Mineral-panel readers, as the trace elements come as chelates wherever the label prints them

Worth watching

Salmon oil in every recipe, so fish is on the list whichever bag you pick
Poultry fat throughout, the beef and the salmon included, if you are ruling birds out
Egg shells at 1% in every bag, if your dog reacts to egg

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

How this scores

How we score

68.3/100Good

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceAverage

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults of every size. A 15kg dog takes 145 to 250 grams a day, so let the waistline decide where in that range to sit.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Fish

The score, in context

Duck 71.4
Beef 70.6
Salmon 68.4
Salmon 68.3

Four recipes across Excellent and Good. Typical dry food: Good.

The beef and the duck step up a band from the salmon, though the recipes behind them are near enough identical, so pick on the meat that suits your dog.

What's in it

Fresh salmon40%Fish at the top.
Herring protein26%A second fish, doing the protein work.
Peas, chickpeas, pumpkin, pea flour14% down to 4%The starch, with no grain or potato anywhere in the range.
Poultry fat4%The one entry that stops short of naming its bird.
Chicken liver, dried apple pulp2% eachA bird below the fish.
Salmon oil2%Double the oil of the land meat bags.
Egg shells1%The calcium source, and egg in the bag.
Glucosamine, chondroitin sulphate0.026%, 0.018%Joint entries with printed figures. Small numbers, but printed ones.
Mannan-oligosaccharides, inulin0.015%, 0.01%
Yucca, milk thistle, rosemary, curcuma0.01% down to 0.003%The label's flourish.

Taurine at 1,500mg, choline chloride at 1,800mg and vitamin C at 250mg, with trace minerals as chelates of protein hydrolysates and selenium as a selenised yeast at 0.16mg.

Poultry fat and chicken liver sit below the fish, so this is not a bird-free recipe.

Named ingredients

Fresh Salmon (40%), Herring Protein (26%), Peas (14%), Chickpeas (4%), Pumpkin (4%), Poultry Fat (4%), Chicken Liver (2%), Dried Apple Pulp (2%), Salmon Oil (2%), Eggs Shells (1%), Pea Flour, Glucosamine (0.026%), Chondroitin Sulphate (0.018%), Mannan-oligosaccharides (0.015%), Inulin (source of Fructo-ola Igosaccharides, 0.01%), Yucca Mojave (0.01%), Dried Milk Thistle (0.01%), Dried Rosemary (0.003%), Dried Curcuma (0.003%)

Against the range

Meat: Fresh salmon, herring protein; Land meats lead the beef and duck.
Salmon oil: 2%; 1% on the beef and duck.
Carbohydrate, dry matter: 47.0%; 44.5% on the beef and duck.

The obvious pick when land meats are being kept off the top of the bowl.

Every bag opens with a fresh named meat at 40% and a named dried protein at 26%, which does the real protein work once the oven has taken the water out of the first. Peas at 14%, chickpeas and pumpkin carry the starch, with no grain or potato anywhere.

Poultry fat, salmon oil and egg shells run through all of them, and the joint and prebiotic entries are printed with figures. No label declares moisture. Protein converts to between 27.2% and 28.3% of dry matter across the range.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

378 kcal/100g

Protein

25%

Fat

15%

Fibre

3.2%

Ash

5.5%

Dry weight

Protein

27.2%

Fat

16.3%

Fibre

3.5%

Ash

Carbs

47%

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

69%

Carbs

18.7%

Veg

Oils

Other

0.3%

Pricing & size