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Wildways Adult Wet: Beef with Venison review

Name: Wildways Adult Wet: Beef with Venison
Brand: Wildways

74.2/100Excellent

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

74.2/100Excellent

Protein and processingExcellent

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

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

Beef

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 chicken33%The lead meat, despite the name.
Fresh beef, venison26%, 4%
Broth
Pumpkin, apple4% each
Pea flourBinder and fibre.
Derivatives of vegetable origin1.4%The one category term on the label.
Salmon oil1%Fish on a beef label.
Minerals and vitamins0.8%
Mannan-oligosaccharides, inulin0.5% eachPrebiotic fibres for the gut bacteria.
Kale, lignocellulose, thyme0.5%, 0.5%, 0.3%

Vitamins A, D3, E and B1 with biotin, and taurine at 800mg.

Chicken at 33% leads this recipe, ahead of the beef and venison in its name.

Named ingredients

Fresh Chicken (33%), Fresh Beef (26%), Venison (4%), Broth, Pumpkin (4%), Apple (4%), Pea Flour, Derivatives Of Vegetable Origin (1.4%), Salmon Oil (1%), Minerals and Vitamins (0.8%), Mannan-oligosaccharides (0.5%), Inulin (source of Fructo-oligosaccharides 0.5%), Kale (0.5%), Lignocellulose (0.5%), Thyme (0.3%).

Against the range

Meat: Chicken 33%, beef 26%, venison 4%; The others lead on their named animal.
Fibre, dry matter: 14.9%; By far the highest; 3.2% to 4.7% elsewhere.
Ingredient list: The longest in the range; Wild boar has the shortest.
Calcium, dry matter: 2.34%; Second highest after the turkey.

A chicken food with red meat behind it, and a lot of fibre for a wet recipe.

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

103 kcal/100g

Protein

9.3%

Fat

Fibre

3.9%

Ash

2.5%

Moisture

73.9%

Dry weight

Protein

35.6%

Fat

26.8%

Fibre

14.9%

Ash

9.6%

Carbs

13.1%

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

63%

Added water

19.8%

Carbs

4.6%

Veg

8.5%

Oils

Other

3.1%

Pricing & size