Wainwright's Adult Dry Dog Food Chicken With Superfoods

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Wainwright's Adult Dry Dog Food Chicken With Superfoods

DryCompleteAdultGrain-freeFree-range
38/ 100
WeakTop 25% of dry foods

89% of dry foods score under 45.

Score v6.1.0 · label checked 4 Oct 2026

Good points

  • One animal protein: chicken
  • No ingredient deductions

First ingredients: Chicken (51.5%) (Freshly Prepared Free Run Chicken 26%, Chicken Meal 20.5%, Chicken Fat 5%), Potato, Sweet Potato (12.5%)… All ingredients

Retailer’s own label, fully checked
Meat
46.5%
Protein, dry weight
28%
Carbs, dry weight
~43%
kcal/100 g
347

Ingredients

Listed first: Chicken. 46.5% of the recipe is declared meat.

Chicken (51.5%) (Freshly Prepared Free Run Chicken 26%, Chicken Meal 20.5%, Chicken Fat 5%), Potato, Sweet Potato (12.5%), Vegetable Stock, Beet Pulp (2.5%), Minerals, Dried Carrot, Alfalfa (0.5%), Linseed (0.5%), Seaweed meal (0.5%), Chicory root extract (as a source of prebiotic FOS) (0.1%), Dried Spinach (0.05%, equivalent to 0.45% Spinach), Dried Blueberry (0.05%, equivalent to 0.3% Blueberries), Dried Nettle, Dried Parsley, Dried Rosemary, Yucca Extract (0.02%), Glucosamine (0.02%), Chondroitin (0.015%) Turmeric, Dried Spearmint

Meat named animal protein

Additives

Vitamins: Vitamin A 17,000IU, Vitamin D3 1,500IU, Vitamin E 70mg. Trace Elements: Iodine (as Calcium Iodate Anhydrous) 2.5mg, Selenium (as Sodium Selenite) 0.1mg, Copper (as Copper (II) Sulphate Pentahydrate) 8mg, Iron (as Iron (II) Sulphate Monohydrate) 60mg, Manganese (as Manganese (II) Oxide) 50mg, Zinc (as Zinc Oxide) 100mg. Antioxidants (Mixed Tocopherols)

How we read this label

First ingredient: “Chicken”. It names the animal.

Each ingredient on the label, how we read it, and the share the label gives
On the labelWe read it asShare on the label
Chicken (51.5%) (Freshly Prepared Free Run Chicken 26%, Chi…Named meat51.5%
PotatoVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
Sweet Potato (12.5%)Vegetable, fruit or plant12.5%
Vegetable StockFat, stock, extract or other processed ingredientNot given
Beet Pulp (2.5%)Vegetable, fruit or plant2.5%
MineralsOtherNot given
Dried CarrotVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
Alfalfa (0.5%)Vegetable, fruit or plant0.5%
Linseed (0.5%)Vegetable, fruit or plant0.5%
Seaweed meal (0.5%)Vegetable, fruit or plant0.5%
Chicory root extract (as a source of prebiotic FOS) (0.1%)Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient0.1%
Dried Spinach (0.05%, equivalent to 0.45% Spinach)Vegetable, fruit or plant0.05%
Dried Blueberry (0.05%, equivalent to 0.3% Blueberries)Vegetable, fruit or plant0.05%
Dried NettleVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
Dried ParsleyVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
Dried RosemaryVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
Yucca Extract (0.02%)Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient0.02%
Glucosamine (0.02%)Other0.02%
Chondroitin (0.015%)Other0.015%
TurmericVegetable, fruit or plantNot given

5% broth, gravy, fat or digest inside the meat figure isn't counted as meat.

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Nutrition

Protein 28% and carbs about 43%, with the water taken out.

Analysis as sold and with the water taken out
NutrientAs soldDry weight
Protein25%28%
within the usual 26 to 32% for dry foods
Fat14.5%16%
Carbohydrate~39%~43%
within the usual 39 to 50% for dry foods
Fibre3%3.3%
Ash8.5%9.4%
Moisturenot on label, 10% assumed10%taken out

Carbohydrate is our estimate: what is left after the other shares. The usual range is the middle half of the dry foods we rate.

Energy347 kcal/100 gCalculated from the analysis.

Why it scores 38

The kind of meat scored best (9.4 of 15). Starch scored lowest (5.6 of 20).

  1. How much meat?

    17.6 / 45 points
    • Meat on the label16.3 / 35 points

      46.5% declared meat, as weighed before cooking; full marks at 100%.

    • Protein level1.3 / 10 points

      Protein is 27.8% of the food with the water taken out. Nothing at 20% or less, full marks at 80%.

  2. How much starch?

    5.6 / 20 points

    Estimated carbohydrate: About 43.3% carbohydrate with the water taken out (our estimate). Full marks with no carbohydrate, none at 60% or more.

  3. How processed?

    6 / 20 points

    How it’s made: Extruded kibble: 6 of 20.

  4. What kind of meat?

    9.4 / 15 points
    • How the meat is listed9.4 / 12 points

      The label lists the meat as fresh and meal, which earns 78% of these points. Fresh or raw named meat earns all of them, dried 70%, meal half, hydrolysed a quarter, an unnamed category none.

    • Organ meat0 / 3 points

      No organ meat named.

No ingredient deductions.

Each bar is as long as the points it is worth, out of 100 in all.

Against other dry foods

Top 25% of dry foods. 29 foods share this score. Each bar counts the ranked dry foods in a 5-point step of score.

What the score means

One scale for every food: meat (45 points), starch (20), how it’s made (20) and kind of meat (15), minus points for a few listed ingredients. It rates the recipe, not your dog.

75 and over is excellent, 60 to 74 good, 45 to 59 fair and under 45 weak.

How we rate foods →

Less starch in the bowl

Half and half by calories with Happy Dog Pure Goat Dog Food (Sardinia) (scores 83): carbs fall from 43% to 27% by dry weight, and protein is about 40%.

Worked out from both labels, for half the day’s calories from each food. The feeding guides on the packs still set the amounts.

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Ingredient notes

3 noted, none cost points: mint, parsley and yucca extract. 27 flagged nothing.

  • 3 noted
  • 27 nothing flagged
27 ingredients with nothing flagged

Alfalfa, antioxidants, beet pulp, blueberries, broth (meat stock), carrot, chicken, chicory root extract, chondroitin, glucosamine, linseed (flaxseed), minerals, nettle, potato, rosemary, seaweed, spinach, sweet potato, tocopherols (vitamin E)

Allowed up to a legal maximum, none declared above it: copper, iodine, iron, manganese, selenium, vitamin A (retinyl acetate), vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol), zinc

Checked against the EU Catalogue of Feed Materials and FEDIAF guidelines.

Sources for these ingredients

Notes come from published sources about each ingredient, not about this food. How we decide

Prices

One shop we track sells this: Pets at Home. Checked 4 Oct 2026. Up 11% since 10 Aug.

In stock first, cheapest per kg first, excluding deliveryExcluding delivery

Prices from each shop
ShopPackPricePer kgLink
Pets at Home12kg · £54.99 up 11% since 10 Aug12kg£54.99£4.58/kgCheapest in stockVisit
Pets at Home2kg · £12.99 up 11% since 10 Aug2kg£12.99£6.50/kgVisit

Since 10 Aug (3 readings): Pets at Home up 11%.

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DayShopPackPricePer kg
4 Oct 2026Pets at Home12kg£54.99£4.58/kg
4 Oct 2026Pets at Home2kg£12.99£6.50/kg
27 Sep 2026Pets at Home12kg£49.49£4.12/kg
27 Sep 2026Pets at Home2kg£11.69£5.84/kg
10 Aug 2026Pets at Home12kg£49.49£4.12/kg
10 Aug 2026Pets at Home2kg£11.69£5.84/kg

Your dog

Cost per day and grams for your dog

Alternatives

4 dry foods score 19 to 22 points higher and cost up to 24% more.

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Carbs
about 8% this food about 43%
To feed
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Carbs
about 24% this food about 43%
To feed
22% less per 1,000 kcal

+19 pointsCompare

Meat
74% this food 46.5%
Carbs
about 27% this food about 43%
To feed
3% less per 1,000 kcal

+19 pointsCompare

Meat
74% this food 46.5%
Carbs
about 23% this food about 43%
To feed
24% more per 1,000 kcal

+19 pointsCompare

Carbs are a share of the dry food, with the water taken out.

Sources

Own-label food: checked against the retailer’s label.

Retailer-verified. This is the retailer’s own-label food, so there is no separate maker’s website to check it against. We publish it because the retailer’s label is complete and passes our consistency checks.

Page we read, saved 4 Oct 2026: Pets at Home.

Score method v6.1.0 · ingredient notes v2.4.0

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