Wilsons

Wilsons Premium Cold Pressed: Lamb review

Name: Wilsons Premium Cold Pressed: Lamb
Brand: Wilsons

68.1/100Good

Cold pressedPuppyAdult

Flavour

Seven cold-pressed recipes with labels more forthcoming than most, printing a percentage or a dose against nearly everything that matters. Four sit in our Good band, and the Chicken, Turkey and Duck and Venison and Trout go a step up to Excellent. The animal share is moderate and the starch is not small.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Owners who want doses printed: methionine, glucosamine, chondroitin and carnitine all have figures
Dogs that bolt their food. The pellet softens in water and does not expand
A change from poultry to red meat to fish on the same underlying recipe
Trace minerals in chelated form, spelled out on the panel
Every size of dog, with feeding guidance from 1kg lapdogs to 60kg giants

Worth watching

Plenty of carbohydrate in all seven, as you would expect of a pressed pellet
Oats in the Haggis and rice in the Lamb, with rice protein at 7% in both
Green-lipped mussel in the Venison and Trout and the White Fish

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

How this scores

How we score

68.1/100Good

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceAverage

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Listed for puppies, adults and seniors of every size. Only the Turkey and Duck prints a calcium figure, so that is the check for a large-breed puppy.

Food type

Cold pressed

Life stage

Puppy, Adult, Senior

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Lamb

The score, in context

Chicken 73.7
Turkey 73.7
Venison 71.7
Lamb 68.1
Haggis 67.8
Salmon 67.1
White Fish 57.5

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

Strong labelling holds the range up, and a moderate animal share with plenty of starch keeps it from climbing further.

What's in it

Dried ground lamb26%Concentrated, so more lamb than the figure suggests.
Rice21%The main starch, and one of only two cereals in the range.
Sweet potato, peas16% each
Rice protein7%
Lamb hydrolysate5%Pre-digested protein and a palatant.
Rapeseed oil3%
Beet fibre, pea fibre, kale, seaweed2% down to 0.5%
Inactivated yeast postbiotic0.4%4 g/kg, the gut side of the tail.
Glucosamine, chondroitin sulphate, carnitine400, 300, 50 mg/kgJoint pair and fat metabolism, every dose printed.

Chelated zinc, iron, manganese and copper, iodine as calcium iodate, and vitamins A, D3 and E, the panel shared across the range.

Rice at 21% and rice protein at 7%, so this is one of the two recipes to check if grain is off the list.

No calcium figure on the label. It is listed for puppies, so ask Wilsons before a large-breed puppy grows on it.

Named ingredients

Dried ground lamb (26%), rice (21%), sweet potato (16%), peas (16%), rice protein (7%), lamb hydrolysate (5%), rapeseed oil (3%), beet fibre (2%), pea fibre (0.5%), kale (0.5%), seaweed (0.5%), postbiotic - inactivated yeast saccharomyces cerevisiae (4 g/kg) (0.4%), vitamins and minerals (2.2%), chicory, inulin, DL-methionine (940 mg/kg), prebiotic - mannan-oligosaccharides (500 mg/kg), glucosamine (400 mg/kg), chondroitin sulphate (300 mg/kg), yucca schidigera, natural antioxidants (tocopherol extracts and rosemary extract), L-tryptophan, thyme, carnitine (50 mg/kg), cranberry, dandelion root, marigold yellow, ginger, turmeric, taurine, selenium yeast.

Against the range

Grain: Rice 21%; Oats in the Haggis; none in the other five.
Ash, dry matter: 9.2%; The Venison and Trout reaches 10.9%.
Energy: 370 kcal per 100g; 345 to 381 across the range.

A middle-of-the-range lamb option for a dog that is fine with rice.

Every recipe is cold pressed: a dried ground meat leads, a hydrolysate of the same animal follows at 4% to 6%. A starch base of sweet potato with peas, tapioca, rice, oats or potato carries the pellet. The analyses barely move, with protein at 27.2% to 28.3% and fat at 15.2% to 15.5% of dry matter.

The functional tail is shared. A yeast postbiotic at 4 g/kg, MOS at 500 mg/kg, glucosamine at 400 mg/kg, chondroitin at 300 mg/kg and carnitine at 50 mg/kg appear on every label. Only the Turkey and Duck declares its moisture; the other six are worked from an assumed 8%.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

370 kcal/100g

Protein

25%

Fat

14%

Fibre

2.5%

Ash

8.5%

Dry weight

Protein

27.2%

Fat

15.2%

Fibre

2.7%

Ash

9.2%

Carbs

45.7%

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

31%

Carbs

60.4%

Veg

Oils

Other

4.6%

Pricing & size