Wilsons

Wilsons Puppy Fresh Food: Tasty Turkey review

Name: Wilsons Puppy Fresh Food: Tasty Turkey
Brand: Wilsons

84.3/100Outstanding

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

84.3/100Outstanding

Protein and processingOutstanding

Nutritional balanceExcellent

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

Turkey

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

Turkey thigh meat49%
Turkey heart, turkey liver10% eachOrgans named and given a percentage, the part most labels skip.
Sweet potato11.8%The starch.
Carrot, peas, quinoa7%, 5%, 2%
Salmon oil2%The only thing from another animal.
Minerals, egg shells, seaweed1.7%, 0.7%, 0.48%Egg shell for calcium, seaweed for 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

Turkey thigh meat (49%),turkey heart(10%), turkey liver(10%), sweet potato (11.8%), carrot (7%), peas (5%), quinoa (2%), salmon oil (2%), minerals(1.7%), egg shells (0.7%), seaweed (0.48%), 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: Turkey thigh 49%, heart and liver; Chicken leg with cod on the other
Protein, dry matter: 36.6%; 30.2% on the chicken and fish
Fat, dry matter: 18.3%; 25.6% on the chicken and fish
Calcium, dry matter: 1.41%; 1.16% on the chicken and fish

The straightforward pick for a puppy that has shown chicken does not agree with it.

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

176 kcal/100g

Protein

15%

Fat

7.5%

Fibre

0.8%

Ash

3.6%

Moisture

59%

Dry weight

Protein

36.6%

Fat

18.3%

Fibre

Ash

8.8%

Carbs

34.3%

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

69.7%

Carbs

18.8%

Veg

7.6%

Oils

Other

1.9%

Pricing & size