Wilsons

Wilsons Working Dog Cold Pressed: Chicken review

Name: Wilsons Working Dog Cold Pressed: Chicken
Brand: Wilsons

67/100Good

Cold pressedPuppyAdult

Flavour

Five cold-pressed recipes in our Good band, alike in everything except the meat. That makes this an easy range to choose from: pick the animal that suits your dog. Beef, chicken, fish, lamb and pork are all on the shelf, so there is a bowl for most dogs steering around a common meat.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Busy, hard-working dogs, the dogs the range is labelled for
Puppy, adult and older dog fed from one bag
Dogs off grain entirely
Gulpers, since the pellets fall apart in liquid and never swell
Joint wear, with glucosamine at 200 mg/kg and chondroitin at 150 mg/kg on every label

Worth watching

Chicken fat and hydrolysate in the Beef, Chicken and Pork, leaving Lamb or Fish for a chicken-avoiding dog
No calcium figure, for anyone raising a puppy that will grow large
Unnamed fish in the Fish recipe

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

How this scores

How we score

67/100Good

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceGood

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Every recipe covers puppies, adults and seniors, toy to giant at 60kg. Moisture is not printed, so the dry-matter figures here assume 8%; feed to the waistline.

Food type

Cold pressed

Life stage

Puppy, Adult, Senior

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

Lamb 68.7
Chicken 67.0
Pork 62.3
Beef 61.7
Fish 57.7

All five Good. Typical dry food: Good.

All five sit together in the band the middle of the cold-pressed field occupies, so the choice is your dog's to make.

What's in it

Dry ground chicken32%The meatiest label in the range.
Sweet potato, peas, tapiocaThe starch base. Tapioca brings little besides starch.
Chicken fat
Beet pulpGentle fibre.
Chicken hydrolysateOne bird throughout.
DL-methionine, L-tryptophanNamed amino acids, not tucked in a blend.
MOS, chicory, inulinTwo prebiotics for the gut bacteria.
Glucosamine, chondroitin sulphate200, 150 mg/kgPrinted with their doses.
Yucca, cranberry, dandelion root, marigold, rosemary extract

Vitamins and minerals itemised dose by dose, down to the biotin, with zinc, manganese and copper partly as glycine chelates and selenium as sodium selenite.

Named ingredients

Dry ground chicken (32%), sweet potato, peas, tapioca, chicken fat, beet pulp, chicken hydrolysate, DL-methionine, L-tryptophan, mannan-oligosaccharides (MOS) yucca schidigera, glucosamine (200 mg/kg), chondroitine sulphate (150mg/kg), chicory, inulin, cranberry, dandelion root, marigold, natural antioxidants, rosemary extract.

Against the range

Protein, dry matter: 31.5%; Highest here.
Ash, dry matter: 6.5%; Lowest here.
Energy: 376 kcal per 100g; The most concentrated, so portions run smaller.

The strongest recipe in the range, with only chicken named on the label.

Five recipes built to one plan. A named dried meat leads at 28% to 32%, then sweet potato, peas and tapioca, with no cereal anywhere. Glucosamine and chondroitin carry milligram figures on all five, and the vitamin and mineral panel is printed dose by dose.

Beef, Chicken and Pork use chicken fat and chicken hydrolysate; Lamb and Fish use rapeseed oil. Carbohydrate sits at 45.2% to 47.2% of dry matter, and moisture is not declared on any label.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

375.5 kcal/100g

Protein

29%

Fat

12%

Fibre

Ash

Dry weight

Protein

31.5%

Fat

13%

Fibre

3.3%

Ash

6.5%

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

35%

Carbs

58.6%

Veg

0.2%

Oils

3.6%

Other

2.6%

Pricing & size