Wainwright's Free Run Chicken with Superfoods Mature Dry Dog Food

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Wainwright's Free Run Chicken with Superfoods Mature Dry Dog Food

DryCompleteSeniorGrain-freeFree-range
34/ 100
WeakTop 39% of dry foods

89% of dry foods score under 45.

Score v6.1.0 · label checked 4 Oct 2026

Good points

  • One main animal protein: chicken
  • No ingredient deductions

Worth knowing

  • About 50% carbs (dry weight)
  • Includes digest or flavouring

First ingredients: Chicken (45%) (*Freshly Prepared Free Run Chicken (26%), Chicken Meal (19%)) Potato Flake, Sweet Potato Pellets (14%)… All ingredients

Retailer’s own label, fully checked
Meat
45%
Protein, dry weight
27%
Carbs, dry weight
~50%
kcal/100 g
352

Ingredients

Listed first: Chicken. 45% of the recipe is declared meat.

  • Meat 45%
  • Plants 19%
  • Other 1.2%
  • No amount given 34.8%

Chicken (45%) (*Freshly Prepared Free Run Chicken (26%), Chicken Meal (19%)) Potato Flake, Sweet Potato Pellets (14%), Sugar Beet Pellets (5%), Vegetable Digest, Poultry Oil, Dried Carrot, Alfalfa Pellets, Seaweed Meal (0.5%), Whole Linseed (0.2%), Chicory Root Extract (0.1%), Glucosamine (0.054%), Dried Blueberry (0.05%), Dried Fennel (0.05%), Dried Nettle, Dried Parsley (0.05%), Dried Rosemary (0.05%), Dried Spinach (0.05%), Chondroitin (0.039%), Methylsulfonylmethane (0.034%), Extract of Yucca Schidigera (0.02%), Dried Peppermint (0.005%), Turmeric (0.005%)

Meat named animal protein

Additives

Nutritional Additives: Vitamins: Vitamin A 17,000IU, Vitamin D3 1,500IU, Vitamin E 70mg; Trace Elements: Natural Antioxidants

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 (45%) (*Freshly Prepared Free Run Chicken (26%), Ch…Named meat45%
Sweet Potato Pellets (14%)Vegetable, fruit or plant14%
Sugar Beet Pellets (5%)Vegetable, fruit or plant5%
Vegetable DigestFat, stock, extract or other processed ingredientNot given
Poultry OilFat, stock, extract or other processed ingredientNot given
Dried CarrotVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
Alfalfa PelletsVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
Seaweed Meal (0.5%)Vegetable, fruit or plant0.5%
Whole Linseed (0.2%)Vegetable, fruit or plant0.2%
Chicory Root Extract (0.1%)Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient0.1%
Glucosamine (0.054%)Other0.054%
Dried Blueberry (0.05%)Vegetable, fruit or plant0.05%
Dried Fennel (0.05%)Vegetable, fruit or plant0.05%
Dried NettleVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
Dried Parsley (0.05%)Vegetable, fruit or plant0.05%
Dried Rosemary (0.05%)Vegetable, fruit or plant0.05%
Dried Spinach (0.05%)Vegetable, fruit or plant0.05%
Chondroitin (0.039%)Other0.039%
Methylsulfonylmethane (0.034%)Other0.034%
Extract of Yucca Schidigera (0.02%)Other0.02%

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Nutrition

Protein 27% and carbs about 50%, 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
Fat10%11%
Carbohydrate~45%~50%
within the usual 39 to 50% for dry foods
Fibre3%3.3%
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.

Energy352 kcal/100 g

Why it scores 34

The kind of meat scored best (9.5 of 15). Starch scored lowest (3.3 of 20).

  1. How much meat?

    16.9 / 45 points
    • Meat on the label15.8 / 35 points

      45% 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?

    3.3 / 20 points

    Estimated carbohydrate: About 50% carbohydrate with the water taken out (our estimate). Full marks with no carbohydrate, none at 60% or more.

  3. How processed?

    5 / 20 points

    How it’s made: Extruded kibble: 6 of 20. Minus 1 for digest or flavouring.

  4. What kind of meat?

    9.5 / 15 points
    • How the meat is listed9.5 / 12 points

      The label lists the meat as fresh and meal, which earns 79% 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 39% of dry foods. 36 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 Animonda GranCarno Original Senior (scores 69): carbs fall from 50% to 30% by dry weight, and protein is about 35%.

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

Best wet foods →

Ingredient notes

3 noted, none cost points: mint, parsley and yucca extract. 23 flagged nothing.

  • 3 noted
  • 23 nothing flagged
23 ingredients with nothing flagged

Alfalfa, antioxidants, beet pulp, blueberries, carrot, chicken, chicory root extract, chondroitin, digest (rendered meat digest), fennel, glucosamine, linseed (flaxseed), MSM (methylsulfonylmethane), nettle, poultry fat, rosemary, seaweed, spinach, sweet potato, tocopherols (vitamin E), turmeric

Allowed up to a legal maximum, none declared above it: vitamin A (retinyl acetate), vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol)

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 12 to 26 points higher and cost up to 6% more.

Compare side by side →
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Carbs
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Carbs
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To feed
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Carbs
about 34% this food about 50%
To feed
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+12 pointsCompare

Meat
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Price
6% more per kg

+12 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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