Sneyd's Wonderdog Wonderdog Adult Grain Free Turkey review

The Good band is where our scoring puts this, and it gets there without a single exotic ingredient. Half the recipe is named turkey, 20% of the bag is the dried form that survives cooking, and the plant side is short and stated. Two things stop it climbing further: carbohydrate at 47.7% of dry matter against 46.2% typical, and a trace mineral list that names its sources without giving amounts. For context, the middle of the adult dry shelf lands in that same Good band.

Ingredients, as declared: Turkey 50% (Freshly Prepared Turkey 28%, Dried Turkey 20%, Turkey Stock 2%), Sweet Potato 26%, Peas 9%, Potato, Beet Pulp, Linseed, Omega-3 Supplement, Minerals, Cranberry 0.3%, Fructooligosaccharides (FOS, 96mg/kg), Mannanoligosaccharides (MOS, 24mg/kg)

Turkey 50% arrives as 28% freshly prepared, 20% dried and 2% stock. The dried figure is the one worth watching. Fresh meat is mostly water and that water leaves during cooking, so a 20% dried entry means a great deal of turkey genuinely reaches the finished kibble. Protein converts to 28.3% of dry matter, working from an assumed 8% moisture since the label prints none of its own.

There is no cereal at all. Sweet potato at 26% takes the lead on the plant side. Peas at 9% and potato sit underneath. Beet pulp does the fibre work. Take the sugar out of a sugar beet and this is what is left, a workaday ingredient that quietly supplies both the soluble and the insoluble kinds.

FOS at 96mg/kg and MOS at 24mg/kg are both printed with doses. Both are prebiotics: the dog's own digestion passes them by, and the bacteria in the large bowel get them instead. MOS is drawn from yeast cell walls and FOS from plants such as chicory. Putting numbers against them suggests the maker meant them to do a job.

Cranberry at 0.3% is the label's small flourish, seasoning at that level and no kind of urinary plan. Linseed does more, bringing plant omega 3 and a good amount of fibre, though the omega 3 in a seed is not the ready-made version a dog takes straight from fish oil.

One entry stops this being a fully closed list. The omega-3 supplement carries no source, and fish oil is the usual answer in a kibble, so the turkey-only reading holds for the meat but not necessarily for every drop of oil. Most dogs will never be troubled by it, and turkey stays the only animal the label names. On an exclusion diet run under veterinary guidance, ask the maker to put a name to it before you start.

£4.20 a kilo, in a 15kg bag.

A 15kg adult dog in moderate condition needs roughly 248 grams a day on an estimate of about 840 kcal (110 × bodyweight^0.75, the standard maintenance calculation), putting the day rate near £1.04. The label itself suggests 140 to 235 grams at that weight. Of the two guides, your dog's shape is the better one.