Wainwright's Light Adult Dry Dog Food Salmon with Rice

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Wainwright's Light Adult Dry Dog Food Salmon with Rice

DryCompleteAdultContains grain
30/ 100
WeakTied 569th of 1,171 dry foods

89% of dry foods score under 45.

Score v6.1.0 · label checked 4 Oct 2026

  • One animal protein: fish
  • No ingredient deductions
  • About 52% carbs (dry weight)

First ingredients: Salmon (33%) (Dried Salmon 28%, Freshly Prepared Salmon 5%), Rice (26%), Whole Grain Barley (20%), Beet Pulp (8.5%)… All ingredients

Retailer’s own label, fully checked
Meat
33%
Protein, dry weight
27%
Carbs, dry weight
~52%
kcal/100 g
314

Ingredients

Listed first: Salmon. 33% of the recipe is declared meat.

  • Meat 33%
  • Grain 50.5%
  • Plants 14.5%
  • Other 0.3%
  • No amount given 1.7%

Salmon (33%) (Dried Salmon 28%, Freshly Prepared Salmon 5%), Rice (26%), Whole Grain Barley (20%), Beet Pulp (8.5%), Whole Ground Oats (4.5%), Dried Peas (3% equivalent to 12.5% Peas), Linseed (2%), Rapeseed Oil, Dried Carrots (1% equivalent to 8% Carrots), Seaweed (0.2%), Glucosamine (0.05%), Yucca Extract (0.02%), Chondroitin (0.015%)

Meat named animal proteinGrain cereals

Additives

Vitamins: Vitamin A 15,000IU, Vitamin D3 1,500IU, Vitamin E 150mg, L-Carnitine 150mg. Trace Elements: Zinc (as Zinc Sulphate Monohydrate) 50mg, Iron (as Iron (II) Sulphate Monohydrate) 40mg, Manganese (as Manganese (II) Oxide) 40mg, Copper (as Copper (ll) Sulphate Pentahydrate) 5mg, Iodine (as Calcium Iodate Anhydrous) 1mg, Selenium (as Sodium Selenite) 0.1mg.

How we read this label

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

On the labelWe read it asShare on the label
Salmon (33%) (Dried Salmon 28%, Freshly Prepared Salmon 5%)Named meat33%
Rice (26%)Grain26%
Whole Grain Barley (20%)Grain20%
Beet Pulp (8.5%)Vegetable, fruit or plant8.5%
Whole Ground Oats (4.5%)Grain4.5%
Dried Peas (3% equivalent to 12.5% Peas)Vegetable, fruit or plant3%
Linseed (2%)Vegetable, fruit or plant2%
Rapeseed OilFat, stock, extract or other processed ingredientNot given
Dried Carrots (1% equivalent to 8% Carrots)Vegetable, fruit or plant1%
Seaweed (0.2%)Vegetable, fruit or plant0.2%
Glucosamine (0.05%)Other0.05%
Yucca Extract (0.02%)Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient0.02%
Chondroitin (0.015%)Other0.015%

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Nutrition

Protein 27% and carbs about 52%, with the water taken out.

As soldDry weight
Protein24.5%27%
within the usual 26 to 32% for dry foods
Fat7.5%8.3%
Carbohydrate~47%~52%
above the usual 39 to 50% for dry foods
Fibre3.6%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.

Energy314 kcal/100 gCalculated from the analysis.

Why it scores 30

The kind of meat scored best (8.9 of 15). Starch scored lowest (2.6 of 20).

  1. How much meat?

    12.8 / 45
    • Meat on the label11.6 / 35

      33% declared meat, as weighed before cooking; full marks at 100%.

    • Protein level1.2 / 10

      Protein is 27.2% of the food with the water taken out. Nothing at 20% or less, full marks at 80%.

  2. How much starch?

    2.6 / 20

    About 52.1% carbohydrate with the water taken out (our estimate). Full marks with no carbohydrate, none at 60% or more.

  3. How processed?

    6 / 20

    Extruded kibble: 6 of 20.

  4. What kind of meat?

    8.9 / 15
    • How the meat is listed8.9 / 12

      The label lists the meat as dried and fresh, which earns 75% 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

Tied 569th of 1,171 dry foods. 43 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 52% to 34% by dry weight, and protein is about 39%.

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

1 noted, no points taken: yucca extract. 22 flagged nothing.

  • 1 noted
  • 22 nothing flagged
22 ingredients with nothing flagged

Barley, beet pulp, carrot, chondroitin, glucosamine, l-carnitine, linseed (flaxseed), oats, peas, rapeseed oil, rice, salmon, seaweed, 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

ShopPackPricePer kg
Pets at Home15kg · £49.99 up 11% since 10 Aug15kg£49.99£3.33/kgVisit

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

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DayShopPackPricePer kg
4 Oct 2026Pets at Home15kg£49.99£3.33/kg
27 Sep 2026Pets at Home15kg£44.99£3.00/kg
10 Aug 2026Pets at Home15kg£44.99£3.00/kg

Your dog

Cost per day and grams for your dog

Alternatives

4 dry foods score 19 to 30 points higher and cost up to 20% more.

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Carbs
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Carbs
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To feed
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Carbs
about 24% this food about 52%
To feed
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Carbs
about 33% this food about 52%
To feed
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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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