Wolf Tucker

Wolf Tucker Complete Raw Meals: Sprats & Tripe Meal review

Name: Wolf Tucker Complete Raw Meals: Sprats & Tripe Meal
Brand: Wolf Tucker

87.1/100Outstanding

RawAdult

Flavour

Frozen 500g tubs built on one honest idea: a named animal with its bone and liver, its total share printed, and nothing vague on any of the eight lists. You can read a label in the time it takes to prise the lid off. All eight sit in our Outstanding band.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Raw feeders who want bone and offal doing the mineral work
Rotation across beef, chicken, duck and turkey, all on one construction
Households with a puppy among the adults; most of the range is labelled from puppy up
Dogs kept clear of starch. No entry on any label is a cereal or a pulse
Owners short on freezer space, as the tubs stack tidily

Worth watching

Salmon oil on every label, single-meat tubs included
Beef inside two of the chicken-named recipes, so read each list for an exclusion plan
A night's thaw in the fridge, and hands and bowls to wash after serving

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

How this scores

How we score

87.1/100Outstanding

Protein and processingOutstanding

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyGood

ValueOutstanding

The details

Dog fit

Most tubs are labelled from puppy upwards, with the Beef Meal, the Sprats and Tripe and the Turkey for adults. No calcium figure is printed, so ask Wolf Tucker before raising a large-breed puppy on it.

Food type

Raw

Life stage

Adult

Main protein

Beef

The score, in context

Chicken Meal 88.8
Duck Meal 88.4
Chicken 87.8
Chicken 87.3
Sprats 87.1
Beef Meal 87.0
Turkey Meal 86.5
Beef 83.1

All eight Outstanding. Typical raw food: Outstanding.

All eight keep pace with the strongest raw food we cover, and the Chicken Meal's small lead is a fine margin on the analysis, not a different food.

What's in it

Beef tripe, beef with bone, beef liver70% total beefTripe leads the list, not the sprats.
Sprats20%Whole oily fish.
Carrot
Green vegetables: broccoli, kale, cabbageEvery green named, nothing left as a loose category.
Sunflower seed granulate
Apple
Salmon oilOmega 3, and fish in every tub.
KelpIodine, with no added premix to do the job.

Named ingredients

Beef Tripe, Beef with Bone, Beef Liver (Total Beef 70%), Sprats (20%), Carrot, Green Vegetables (Brocolli, Kale, Cabbage), Sunflower Seed Granulate, Apple, Salmon Oil, Kelp

Against the range

Fish: Whole sprats at 20%; Salmon oil only on the other seven.
Energy: 146 kcal per 100g, estimated; The lightest; 183 on the Beef and Tripe.
Carbohydrate, dry matter: 5.0%; Zero on six of the eight.

The oily fish tub, with the largest portions in the range.

Every tub follows one build: a named animal with its bone and liver, the total for that animal printed as a percentage, then carrot, named greens and apple, closing on salmon oil and kelp. Three tubs add sunflower seed granulate and three bring beef tripe. There is no cereal, no pulse and no added vitamin or mineral premix.

Bone and kelp do the mineral work, liver and salmon oil the vitamin work. Carbohydrate is zero on six of the eight. No label prints a calcium figure.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

145.8 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

13.1%

Fat

11.1%

Fibre

1.8%

Ash

4.5%

Moisture

67.9%

Dry weight

Protein

40.8%

Fat

34.6%

Fibre

5.6%

Ash

14%

Carbs

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

86.6%

Veg

10.8%

Oils

0.8%

Other

1.9%

Pricing & size

Price per kilo: £4.98 (RRP)
Pack: 500 g tub - the only size sold as its own product (single `Default Title` variant, 500 g). Also sold inside Wolf Tucker's own multi-tub boxes rather than in any larger tub: the 6 kg / 12 kg / 18 kg mixed boxes listed in the notes section below.
A 15kg dog eats (our estimate): 300 to 450 g a day, 375 in the middle
Cost per day, 15kg dog: £1.87

Budget end of the market for a raw food, and strong value for what is in the recipe.

Ingredients and nutrition are taken from manufacturer data. Retailer pricing is not yet live for this food.