Wainwright's Dry Adult Dog Food Beef With Superfoods

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Wainwright's Dry Adult Dog Food Beef With Superfoods

DryCompleteAdultGrain-freeGrass-fed
35/ 100
WeakTop 36% of dry foods

89% of dry foods score under 45.

Score v6.1.0 · label checked 4 Oct 2026

Good points

  • One animal protein: beef
  • No ingredient deductions

Worth knowing

  • About 48% carbs (dry weight)

First ingredients: Beef (40.5%) (Freshly Prepared Grass Fed Beef 26%, Beef Meal 14.5%), Sweet Potato (40%), Beet Pulp (8%), Rapeseed Oil… All ingredients

Retailer’s own label, fully checked
Meat
40.5%
Protein, dry weight
27%
Carbs, dry weight
~48%
kcal/100 g
352

Ingredients

Listed first: Beef. 40.5% of the recipe is declared meat.

  • Meat 40.5%
  • Plants 48%
  • Other 1.7%
  • No amount given 9.8%

Beef (40.5%) (Freshly Prepared Grass Fed Beef 26%, Beef Meal 14.5%), Sweet Potato (40%), Beet Pulp (8%), Rapeseed Oil, Vegetable Stock, Minerals, Linseed (0.5%), Dried Carrot (0.5%, equivalent to 4% Carrot), Seaweed Meal (0.5%), Chicory Root Extract (as a source of prebiotic FOS) (0.1%), Dried Spinach, Dried Blueberry, Dried Nettle, Dried Parsley, Dried Rosemary, Yucca Extract (0.02%), Glucosamine (0.02%), Chondroitin (0.015%), Turmeric (0.005%), Dried Spearmint.

Meat named animal protein

Additives

Additives/kg: Nutritional 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

How we read this label

First ingredient: “Beef”. 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
Beef (40.5%) (Freshly Prepared Grass Fed Beef 26%, Beef Mea…Named meat40.5%
Sweet Potato (40%)Vegetable, fruit or plant40%
Beet Pulp (8%)Vegetable, fruit or plant8%
Rapeseed OilFat, stock, extract or other processed ingredientNot given
Vegetable StockFat, stock, extract or other processed ingredientNot given
MineralsOtherNot given
Linseed (0.5%)Vegetable, fruit or plant0.5%
Dried Carrot (0.5%, equivalent to 4% Carrot)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 SpinachVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
Dried BlueberryVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
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%
Turmeric (0.005%)Vegetable, fruit or plant0.005%
Dried Spearmint.OtherNot given

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Nutrition

Protein 27% and carbs about 48%, with the water taken out.

Analysis as sold and with the water taken out
NutrientAs soldDry weight
Protein24%27%
within the usual 26 to 32% for dry foods
Fat11%12%
Carbohydrate~43%~48%
within the usual 39 to 50% for dry foods
Fibre4%4.4%
Ash7.5%8.3%
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.

Energy352 kcal/100 g

Why it scores 35

The kind of meat scored best (9.9 of 15). Starch scored lowest (3.9 of 20).

  1. How much meat?

    15.3 / 45 points
    • Meat on the label14.2 / 35 points

      40.5% declared meat, as weighed before cooking; full marks at 100%.

    • Protein level1.1 / 10 points

      Protein is 26.7% of the food with the water taken out. Nothing at 20% or less, full marks at 80%.

  2. How much starch?

    3.9 / 20 points

    Estimated carbohydrate: About 48.3% 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?

    9.9 / 15 points
    • How the meat is listed9.9 / 12 points

      The label lists the meat as fresh and meal, which earns 82% 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 36% of dry foods. 39 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 48% to 30% 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

Antioxidants, beef, beet pulp, blueberries, broth (meat stock), carrot, chicory root extract, chondroitin, glucosamine, linseed (flaxseed), minerals, nettle, rapeseed oil, rosemary, seaweed, spinach, sweet potato, tocopherols (vitamin E), turmeric

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 16 to 25 points higher and cost up to 19% more.

Compare side by side →
Meat
78% this food 40.5%
Carbs
about 8% this food about 48%
To feed
5% less per 1,000 kcal

+25 pointsCompare

Meat
73% this food 40.5%
Carbs
about 24% this food about 48%
To feed
21% less per 1,000 kcal

+22 pointsCompare

Meat
74% this food 40.5%
Carbs
about 27% this food about 48%
To feed
2% less per 1,000 kcal

+22 pointsCompare

Meat
60% this food 40.5%
Carbs
about 30% this food about 48%
To feed
19% more per 1,000 kcal

+16 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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