Wilsons

Wilsons Puppy Fresh Food: Chicken & Fish review

Name: Wilsons Puppy Fresh Food: Chicken & Fish
Brand: Wilsons

81.4/100Outstanding

FreshPuppy

Flavour

Gently cooked puppy food with the organs named and a percentage on every entry, and both recipes land in our Outstanding band. Calcium, the number to look for while a skeleton is still being built, is printed on both labels: 1.16% and 1.41% of dry matter.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Owners raising a puppy who want calcium printed, not assumed
Large breed puppies, with a calcium level suited to slow, even growth
Any size, toy to giant, on the feeding guide
Fussy youngsters: gently cooked meat smells far more like dinner than a biscuit
An early start on the joints, glucosamine and chondroitin on both labels

Worth watching

Salmon oil in both and cod in the Chicken & Fish, so neither is fish free
Egg shell as the calcium source, so neither is egg free
Fridge room and defrosting time, a change if you have been scooping from a bag

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

How this scores

How we score

81.4/100Outstanding

Protein and processingOutstanding

Nutritional balanceGood

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueOutstanding

The details

Dog fit

Listed for puppies of every size. The right amount changes every few weeks, so work from the label's guide for today's weight and expected adult size.

Food type

Fresh

Life stage

Puppy

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

Tasty Turkey 84.3
Chicken 81.4

All two Outstanding. Typical fresh food: Outstanding.

Both keep very good company in a strong field, so let protein, not rank, decide between them.

What's in it

Chicken leg meat29%
Chicken heart, chicken liver10% eachWhere a growing dog picks up copper, B12 and vitamin A, and printed by percentage.
Cod16%A second animal.
Sweet potato11.2%The starch.
Carrot, quinoa, peas, spinach6%, 6%, 5%, 2%Quinoa is a seed with a fuller amino acid profile than most plants.
Salmon oil2%Omega 3 while the nervous system develops.
Egg shells, seaweed, minerals1%, 0.48%, 1%Egg shell is the calcium source; seaweed adds iodine.
Glucosamine, chondroitin sulphate0.02% and 0.015%An early start on the joints.
Chicory, DL-methionine, mannan-oligosaccharides, inulin, yucca, rosemary, thyme and other herbs0.16% down to 0.0025%Gut support for a food a puppy meets for the first time.

Zinc and iron as amino acid chelates, dosed for growth, with copper, manganese, iodine and vitamins A, D3 and E behind them.

Named ingredients

Chicken leg meat (29%), chicken heart (10%), chicken liver (10%), cod (16%), sweet potato (11.2%), carrot (6%), quinoa (6%), peas (5%), spinach (2%), salmon oil (2%), egg shells (1%), seaweed (0.48%), minerals (1%), chicory (0.16%), DL-methionine (0.025%), mannan-oligosaccharides (0.025%), inulin (0.025%), glucosamine (0.02%), chondroitin sulphate (0.015%), yuccaschidigera (0.012%), natural antioxidant-rosemary and tocopherol extracts (0.012%), selenium yeast (0.01%), thyme(0.005%), carnitine (0.0025%), cranberry (0.0025%), dandelion root (0.0025%), marigold yellow (0.0025%), ginger (0.0025%), turmeric (0.0025%).

Against the range

Meat: Chicken leg 29%, heart and liver, cod 16%; Turkey thigh at 49% with its organs
Fat, dry matter: 25.6%; 18.3% on the turkey
Protein, dry matter: 30.2%; 36.6% on the turkey
Calcium, dry matter: 1.16%; 1.41% on the turkey

The fuller bowl, and the cod makes it the more interesting one for a puppy that likes variety.

Both recipes are gently cooked meat with heart and liver at 10% each, and every entry carries a percentage. Sweet potato leads the plants, with carrot, peas and quinoa around it, and salmon oil at 2%, egg shell calcium, seaweed and a small joint pair are on both labels.

Calcium is printed on both, at 1.16% and 1.41% of dry matter. The meat is what changes: chicken leg with cod, or turkey thigh alone.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

198 kcal/100g

Protein

13%

Fat

11%

Fibre

Ash

3.1%

Moisture

57%

Dry weight

Protein

30.2%

Fat

25.6%

Fibre

2.3%

Ash

7.2%

Carbs

34.7%

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

66%

Carbs

22.2%

Veg

8.6%

Oils

Other

1.2%

Pricing & size