Wildways

Wildways Adult Wet review

Name: Wildways Adult Wet
Brand: Wildways

72.9/100Excellent

WetAdult

Flavour

Less common meats with a percentage printed against nearly every one, and all four recipes in our Excellent band. Duck at 51%, wild boar at 50% and turkey at 59% carry their share on the front. The beef with venison recipe is actually led by fresh chicken.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Dogs that have run out of ordinary proteins: wild boar, venison and ostrich all appear
Owners who want the meat measured, with a percentage against every headline animal
Poultry-avoiding dogs, on the wild boar recipe with boar at 50% and lamb at 14%
Grain-avoiding homes, pea flour and a little fruit carrying what starch there is
Dogs that benefit from a firmer stool, with lignocellulose on three of the four

Worth watching

Fresh chicken at 33% leads the beef with venison, ahead of beef at 26% and venison at 4%
Salmon oil on three labels breaks a strict fish avoidance
Derivatives of vegetable origin on the 300g pair, the one category term in an itemised range
Calcium varies widely, from 0.91% of dry matter on the wild boar to 2.81% on the turkey

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

How this scores

How we score

72.9/100Excellent

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceExcellent

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueExcellent

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adult dogs of every size. Check which label you are reading before you buy, since names, fibre and added panels differ more than the shared band suggests.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Duck

The score, in context

Turkey 75.2
Beef 74.2
Wild Boar 73.5
Wildways Adult Wet 72.9

All four Excellent. Typical wet food: Excellent.

Barely anything separates the four, so the choice is which meat suits your dog, and fibre from lignocellulose is what stops the range climbing further.

What's in it

Fresh duck51%
Chicken14%A second bird behind the duck.
Blackberries4%The only fruit.
Pea flour2%Binder and fibre; its plant protein is less digestible than the meat.
Lignocellulose0.7%Purified fibre that adds bulk without calories.
Salmon oil0.5%Omega 3, and fish on a duck label.
Calcium carbonate0.3%
Dried rosemary0.01%

The fullest panel in the range: vitamins A, D3, E and B1 with biotin, and zinc, iron and manganese as chelates.

Salmon oil on the list, so not fish free.

Named ingredients

Fresh Duck (51%), Chicken (14%), Blackberries (4%), Pea Flour (2%), Lignocellulose (0.7%), Salmon Oil (0.5%), Calcium Carbonate (0.3%), Dried Rosemary (0.01%)

Against the range

Meat: Duck 51%, chicken 14%; Turkey 59% is the largest single figure; wild boar 50%.
Added panel: Fullest in the range; Wild boar prints only D3, E and biotin.
Calcium, dry matter: 1.14%; 0.91% to 2.81% across the four.
Energy: 104 kcal per 100g; Turkey richest at 112.

The best-documented label of the four.

Every animal on every label is named and nearly every one is numbered, with protein converting to between 35.6% and 41.0% of dry matter. Pea flour is the one plant entry doing real work, as a binder and fibre source. The 400g pair add blackberries at 4%; the 300g pair use pumpkin, apple and a little kale.

Lignocellulose, a purified plant fibre, appears on three labels at 0.5% to 1%. The 300g pair also carry prebiotics, taurine at 800 mg and a derivatives of vegetable origin entry at 1.4%. Added panels differ from recipe to recipe, and declared calcium runs from 0.91% to 2.81% of dry matter.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

104 kcal/100g

Protein

Fat

Fibre

0.7%

Ash

2.5%

Moisture

78%

Dry weight

Protein

36.4%

Fat

27.3%

Fibre

3.2%

Ash

11.4%

Carbs

21.7%

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

74.9%

Added water

16.5%

Carbs

2.3%

Oils

0.6%

Other

5.8%

Pricing & size