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Wildways Puppy Dry: Beef with Buffalo review

Name: Wildways Puppy Dry: Beef with Buffalo
Brand: Wildways

75.5/100Excellent

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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

75.5/100Excellent

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceExcellent

TransparencyExcellent

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

Beef

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 beef40%
Beef protein, buffalo protein18%, 14%Dried concentrates that carry the protein through the oven.
Peas, chickpeas9.5%, 2%Lighter binding than the chicken recipe.
Poultry fat7%No bird named.
Hydrolysed poultry liver2%Names no bird either, the entry to note on an exclusion diet.
Dried apple pulp, pumpkin1.5%, 1.2%
Salmon oil, egg shells1%, 0.5%Marine omegas, then calcium.
Potassium chloride, sodium chloride, pea flour0.4%, 0.3%The salts are not in the chicken recipe.
Glucosamine, mannan-oligosaccharides, inulin, chondroitin sulphate0.022% to 0.013%
Yucca mojave, milk thistle, rosemary, curcuma turmeric0.015% to 0.003%

Vitamins A, D3, E and C with taurine, choline chloride and biotin, all at printed levels.

Named ingredients

COMPOSITIONFresh Beef (40%), Beef Protein (18%), Buffalo Protein (14%), Peas (9.5%), Poultry Fat (7%), Hydrolysed Poultry Liver (2%), Chickpeas (2%), Dried Apple Pulp (1.5%), Pumpkin (1.2%), Salmon Oil (1%), Eggs Shells (0.5%), Potassium Chloride (0.4%), Sodium Chloride (0.3%), Pea Flour, Glucosamine (0.022%), Mannan-oligosaccharides (0.02%), Inulin (source of Fructo-oligosaccharides, 0.015%), Yucca Mojave (0.015%), Chondroitin Sulphate (0.013%), Dried Milk Thistle (0.01%), Dried Rosemary (0.003%), Dried Curcuma Turmeric (0.003%).

Against the range

Calcium: 1.56% of dry matter, inside what growth asks for; Not printed on the chicken bag
Protein, dry matter: 34.4%; Chicken 31.5%
Carbohydrate, dry matter: 34.8%; Chicken 39.4%
Moisture: Declared, 10.0%; Not declared on the chicken bag

The fuller label of the two, and the one an owner of a big pup can actually check.

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

31%

Fat

18%

Fibre

3.2%

Ash

6.5%

Moisture

10%

Dry weight

Protein

34.4%

Fat

20%

Fibre

3.6%

Ash

7.2%

Carbs

34.8%

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

74.5%

Carbs

13.4%

Veg

2.7%

Oils

Other

1.4%

Pricing & size