Wildways

Wildways Puppy Dry review

Name: Wildways Puppy Dry
Brand: Wildways

74.2/100Excellent

DryPuppy

Flavour

Two grain-free puppy recipes on one blueprint, both in our Excellent band, a step above most puppy dry food. Fresh meat at 40% is backed by a dried protein concentrate, so the protein survives the oven. Peas and chickpeas bind with a lighter hand than most kibbles ask for.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Busy, quick-growing puppies, with both at 385 kcal per 100g against the 376 typical
Pups of every build, toy to giant
Households keeping cereals out
Joint ingredients properly dosed, with glucosamine and chondroitin sulphate given percentages
A gut that likes prebiotics: mannan oligosaccharides and inulin on each recipe

Worth watching

Poultry fat with no bird named on either, which counts on a strict exclusion trial
Salmon oil and egg shells on both lists, so neither suits a fish-free or egg-free plan
Calcium printed on the beef bag only

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

How this scores

How we score

74.2/100Excellent

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceGood

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueExcellent

The details

Dog fit

Listed for puppies of every size. If your pup will finish large, choose the beef and buffalo, the only one of the two that prints calcium to check.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Puppy

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

Beef 75.5
Wildways Puppy Dry 74.2

All two Excellent. Typical dry food: Good.

The two finish together, the beef and buffalo a shade in front on a fuller label and a lighter starch estimate.

What's in it

Fresh chicken40%Flavour and palatability.
Turkey protein30%Dense, water-free protein that fresh meat loses in the oven.
Peas, chickpeas10%, 4%The binding, with no cereal.
Poultry fat6%No bird named.
Pumpkin, chicken liver, dried apple pulp3%, 2%, 2%Gentle fibre, and a little organ meat.
Salmon oil, egg shells1% eachMarine omegas, then calcium in a form dogs use readily.
Pea flour
Glucosamine, chondroitin sulphate0.026%, 0.018%
Mannan-oligosaccharides, inulin0.015%, 0.01%
Yucca mojave, milk thistle, rosemary, curcuma0.01% to 0.003%Seasoning at trace level.

Taurine, choline chloride and biotin in a printed panel, with zinc, iron, manganese and copper all as protein hydrolysate chelates.

No calcium figure on this bag, so nothing to check when a pup will finish big.

Moisture is not declared, so the dry-matter figures assume 8%.

Named ingredients

Fresh Chicken (40%), Turkey Protein (30%), Peas (10%), Poultry Fat (6%), Chickpeas (4%), Pumpkin (3%), Chicken Liver (2%), Dried Apple Pulp (2%), Salmon Oil (1%), Eggs Shells (1%), Pea Flour, Glucosamine (0.026%), Chondroitin Sulphate (0.018%), Mannan-oligosaccharides (0.015%), Inulin (a source of Fructo-oligosaccharides, 0.01%), Yucca Mojave (0.01%), Dried Milk Thistle (0.01%), Dried Rosemary (0.003%), Dried Curcuma (0.003%)

Against the range

Meat: Fresh chicken, turkey protein, chicken liver; Beef, beef protein, buffalo protein
Protein, dry matter: 31.5%; Beef 34.4%
Carbohydrate, dry matter: 39.4%; Beef 34.8%
Calcium: Not printed; Beef 1.56% of dry matter

The poultry choice, best for a pup that will finish small or medium.

Both recipes share a blueprint: a fresh named meat at 40% heads the list, a dried protein concentrate follows, and peas and chickpeas do a light binding job with pea flour behind them. No cereal appears on either. Egg shells supply calcium, salmon oil the marine omegas, and poultry fat with no bird named the energy. The joint and prebiotic tail carries a percentage for every entry. What differs is the meat, how much the label declares, and whether calcium is printed.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

385 kcal/100g

Protein

29%

Fat

17%

Fibre

3.2%

Ash

6.5%

Dry weight

Protein

31.5%

Fat

18.5%

Fibre

3.5%

Ash

7.1%

Carbs

39.4%

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

73%

Carbs

14.7%

Veg

Oils

Other

0.3%

Pricing & size