Wainwright's Nutritious Insects with Superfoods Wet Adult Dog Food Tin

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Wainwright's Nutritious Insects with Superfoods Wet Adult Dog Food Tin

WetCompleteAdultGrain-free
53/ 100
FairTied 471st of 639 wet foods

21% of wet foods score under 45.

Score v6.1.0 · label checked 4 Oct 2026

  • 53% meat
  • Low starch, about 21% carbs
  • One animal protein: insect
  • Added plant protein, starch or fibre

First ingredients: Insect (53%) (Insect Puree (49%), Insect Protein Meal (4%)), Potato Flakes (4%), Pea Protein… All ingredients

Retailer’s own label, fully checked
Meat
53%
Protein, dry weight
36%
Carbs, dry weight
~21%
kcal/100 g
110

Ingredients

Listed first: Insect. 53% of the recipe is declared meat.

  • Meat 53%
  • Plants 7.3%
  • Other 1.8%
  • No amount given 37.9%

Insect (53%) (Insect Puree (49%), Insect Protein Meal (4%)), Potato Flakes (4%), Pea Protein, Dried Peas (1.3%, equivalent to 4% peas), Dried Sweet Potato (1%, equivalent to 4% Sweet Potato), Dried Carrot (1%, equivalent to 9% Carrot), Minerals, Brewers Yeast, Vegetable Oil (0.5%), Blueberry (0.5%), Dried Spinach (0.1%), Goji Berry (0.1%), Dried Seaweed (0.1%), Yucca Extract (0.1%), Chicory Extract (0.1% (as a source of Prebiotic Fructo-oligosaccharide)), Dried Herbs (Mint, Parsley, Rosemary (0.3%))

Meat named animal protein

Additives

Nutritional Additives: Vitamins: Vitamin A 2,250IU, Vitamin D3 328IU. Vitamin E 26mg; Trace Elements: Zinc (as Zinc Sulphate Monohydrate) 24mg, Iron (as Iron (II) Sulphate Monohydrate) 12.5mg, Copper (as Copper (II) Sulphate Pentahydrate) 2.5mg, Manganese (as Manganous Sulphate Monohydrate) 2mg, Iodine (as Calcium Iodate Anhydrous) 0.45mg, Selenium (as Sodium Selenite) 0.04mg

How we read this label

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

On the labelWe read it asShare on the label
Insect (53%) (Insect Puree (49%), Insect Protein Meal (4%))Named meat53%
Potato Flakes (4%)Vegetable, fruit or plant4%
Pea ProteinVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
Dried Peas (1.3%, equivalent to 4% peas)Vegetable, fruit or plant1.3%
Dried Sweet Potato (1%, equivalent to 4% Sweet Potato)Vegetable, fruit or plant1%
Dried Carrot (1%, equivalent to 9% Carrot)Vegetable, fruit or plant1%
MineralsOtherNot given
Brewers YeastOtherNot given
Vegetable Oil (0.5%)Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient0.5%
Blueberry (0.5%)Vegetable, fruit or plant0.5%
Dried Spinach (0.1%)Vegetable, fruit or plant0.1%
Goji Berry (0.1%)Vegetable, fruit or plant0.1%
Dried Seaweed (0.1%)Vegetable, fruit or plant0.1%
Yucca Extract (0.1%)Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient0.1%
Chicory Extract (0.1% (as a source of Prebiotic Fructo-olig…Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient0.1%
Dried Herbs (Mint, Parsley, Rosemary (0.3%))Vegetable, fruit or plant0.3%

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Nutrition

Protein 36% and carbs about 21%, with the water taken out.

As soldDry weight
Protein9%36%
below the usual 38 to 48% for wet foods
Fat7%28%
Carbohydrate~5.3%~21%
above the usual 9 to 21% for wet foods
Fibre1.2%4.8%
Ash2.5%10%
Moisture75%taken out

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

Energy110 kcal/100 g

Why it scores 53

The kind of meat scored best (12 of 15). How it’s made scored lowest (7 of 20).

  1. How much meat?

    21.3 / 45
    • Meat on the label18.6 / 35

      53% declared meat, as weighed before cooking; full marks at 100%.

    • Protein level2.7 / 10

      Protein is 36% of the food with the water taken out. Nothing at 20% or less, full marks at 80%.

  2. How much starch?

    12.9 / 20

    About 21.2% carbohydrate with the water taken out (our estimate). Full marks with no carbohydrate, none at 60% or more.

  3. How processed?

    7 / 20

    Cooked in the tin, tray or pouch: 8 of 20. Minus 1 for added plant protein, starch or fibre.

  4. What kind of meat?

    12 / 15
    • How the meat is listed12 / 12

      The label lists the meat as fresh, which earns 100% 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 wet foods

Tied 471st of 639 wet foods. 3 foods share this score. Each bar counts the ranked wet 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.

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Ingredient notes

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

  • 1 noted
  • 22 nothing flagged
  • 2 not in our ingredient database yet
22 ingredients with nothing flagged

Blueberries, carrot, chicory root extract, herbs, minerals, oils and fats, peas, potato, seaweed, spinach, sweet potato, tocopherols (vitamin E), vegetable protein extracts, yeast

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
2 not in our ingredient database yet

Goji berry, insect

Not in our ingredient database yet, so no judgement either way.

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 Home1 x 395g · £2.49 up 11% since 10 Aug1 x 395g£2.49£6.30/kgVisit

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

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DayShopPackPricePer kg
4 Oct 2026Pets at Home1 x 395g£2.49£6.30/kg
27 Sep 2026Pets at Home1 x 395g£2.24£5.67/kg
10 Aug 2026Pets at Home1 x 395g£2.24£5.67/kg

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Cost per day and grams for your dog

Alternatives

4 wet foods score 18 to 30 points higher and cost up to 24% more.

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Carbs
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Carbs
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Carbs
about 3% this food about 21%
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Carbs
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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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