Wilsons

Wilsons Premium Cold Pressed: Turkey & Duck review

Name: Wilsons Premium Cold Pressed: Turkey & Duck
Brand: Wilsons

73.7/100Excellent

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

73.7/100Excellent

Protein and processingExcellent

Nutritional balanceAverage

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueExcellent

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

Turkey

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 turkey18.5%
Sweet potato, peas17.5%, 17%
Tapioca15%Starch and little else.
Dried ground duck15%The second bird.
Turkey hydrolysate6%
Beet fibre, turkey fat, rapeseed oil2%, 1.5%, 1.5%Turkey fat keeps the fat poultry sourced.
Apple, pea fibre, seaweed0.8% down to 0.5%
Inactivated yeast postbiotic0.4%4 g/kg, the gut side of the tail.
DL-methionine, L-tryptophan1500, 1000 mg/kgThe most generous methionine dose in the range.
Glucosamine, chondroitin sulphate, carnitine400, 300, 50 mg/kgJoint pair and fat metabolism, every dose printed.

Zinc, iron, manganese and copper in chelated form, iodine, and vitamins A, D3 and E.

The only recipe here that prints moisture (9.5%) and gives a calcium figure, at 1.66% of dry matter.

Named ingredients

Dried ground turkey (18.5%), sweet potato (17.5%), peas (17%), tapioca (15%), dried ground duck (15%), turkey hydrolysate (6%), beet fibre (2%) turkey fat (1.5%) rapeseed oil (1.5%), apple (0.8%), pea fibre (0.7%), seaweed (0.5%), postbiotic - inactivated yeast saccharomyces cerevisiae (4 g/kg) (0.4%), vitamins and minerals (2.2%), chicory, inulin, DL methionine (1500 mg/kg), L-Tryptophan (1000 mg/kg), prebiotic - mannan-oligosaccharides (500 mg/kg), glucosamine (400 mg/kg), chondroitin sulphate (300 mg/kg), yucca schidigera, carnitine (50 mg/kg), cranberry, dandelion root, marigold yellow, lutein, natural antioxidants (tocopherol extracts and rosemary extract), ginger, turmeric, thyme.

Against the range

Meat: Turkey 18.5%, duck 15%; One main species in most others.
Moisture: Declared at 9.5%; Not declared on the other six.
Calcium: 1.66% of dry matter; No figure on the others.
Methionine: 1500 mg/kg; 500 to 940 mg/kg elsewhere.

The most fully labelled bag in the range, and level with the Chicken at the top on our scoring.

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

374 kcal/100g

Protein

25%

Fat

14%

Fibre

Ash

8.5%

Moisture

9.5%

Dry weight

Protein

27.6%

Fat

15.5%

Fibre

3.3%

Ash

9.4%

Carbs

44.2%

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

39.5%

Carbs

50.2%

Veg

Oils

Other

5.3%

Pricing & size