Wainwright's Dry Puppy Food Free Run Chicken With Superfoods

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Wainwright's Dry Puppy Food Free Run Chicken With Superfoods

DryCompletePuppyGrain-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

  • One animal protein: chicken
  • No ingredient deductions
  • Added plant protein, starch or fibre

First ingredients: Chicken (50%) (Freshly Prepared Free Run Chicken 26%, Chicken Meal 15.5%, Chicken Fat 8.5%), Potato, Potato Starch, Potato Protein… All ingredients

Retailer’s own label, fully checked
Meat
41.5%
Protein, dry weight
31%
Carbs, dry weight
~37%
kcal/100 g
373

Ingredients

Listed first: Chicken. 41.5% of the recipe is declared meat.

Chicken (50%) (Freshly Prepared Free Run Chicken 26%, Chicken Meal 15.5%, Chicken Fat 8.5%), Potato, Potato Starch, Potato Protein, Sweet Potato (4%) Vegetable Stock, Minerals, Dried Carrot, Alfalfa, Beet Pulp (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.

On the labelWe read it asShare on the label
Chicken (50%) (Freshly Prepared Free Run Chicken 26%, Chick…Named meat50%
PotatoVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
Potato StarchVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
Potato ProteinVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
Sweet Potato (4%)Vegetable, fruit or plant4%
Vegetable StockFat, stock, extract or other processed ingredientNot given
MineralsOtherNot given
Dried CarrotVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
AlfalfaVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
Beet Pulp (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%

8.5% broth, gravy, fat or digest inside the meat figure isn't counted as meat.

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Nutrition

Protein 31% and carbs about 37%, with the water taken out.

As soldDry weight
Protein28%31%
within the usual 26 to 32% for dry foods
Fat18.5%21%
Carbohydrate~33%~37%
below the usual 39 to 50% for dry foods
Fibre2%2.2%
Ash8%8.9%
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.

Energy373 kcal/100 gCalculated from the analysis.

Why it scores 38

The kind of meat scored best (9.8 of 15). How it’s made scored lowest (5 of 20).

  1. How much meat?

    16.4 / 45
    • Meat on the label14.5 / 35

      41.5% declared meat, as weighed before cooking; full marks at 100%.

    • Protein level1.9 / 10

      Protein is 31.1% of the food with the water taken out. Nothing at 20% or less, full marks at 80%.

  2. How much starch?

    7.6 / 20

    About 37.2% carbohydrate with the water taken out (our estimate). Full marks with no carbohydrate, none at 60% or more.

  3. How processed?

    5 / 20

    Extruded kibble: 6 of 20. Minus 1 for added plant protein, starch or fibre.

  4. What kind of meat?

    9.8 / 15
    • How the meat is listed9.8 / 12

      The label lists the meat as fresh and meal, which earns 81% 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

      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 Forthglade Puppy Chicken & Liver Wet Dog Food (scores 73): carbs fall from 37% to 20% by dry weight, and protein is about 37%.

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. 28 flagged nothing.

  • 3 noted
  • 28 nothing flagged
28 ingredients with nothing flagged

Alfalfa, antioxidants, beet pulp, blueberries, carrot, chicken, chicory root extract, chondroitin, glucosamine, linseed (flaxseed), minerals, nettle, potato, rosemary, seaweed, spinach, starch, sweet potato, tocopherols (vitamin E), vegetable protein extracts

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

ShopPackPricePer kg
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 11 to 23 points higher at the same price or less.

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Carbs
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To feed
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Carbs
about 8% this food about 37%
To feed
about the same per 1,000 kcal

+22 pointsCompare

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Carbs
about 38% this food about 37%
To feed
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55% this food 41.5%
Carbs
about 26% this food about 37%
To feed
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+11 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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