Wainwright's Plant Powered with Insect & Superfoods Adult Dry Dog Food

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Wainwright's Plant Powered with Insect & Superfoods Adult Dry Dog Food

DryCompleteAdultContains grain
14/ 100
WeakTied 1,100th of 1,171 dry foods

89% of dry foods score under 45.

Score v6.1.0 · label checked 4 Oct 2026

  • One animal protein: insect
  • No ingredient deductions
  • 4% meat
  • About 56% carbs (dry weight)
  • Added plant protein, starch or fibre

First ingredients: Rice, Potato Protein, Maize Gluten Meal, Beet Pulp (5%), Dried Peas (5%)… All ingredients

Retailer’s own label, fully checked
Meat
4%
Protein, dry weight
24%
Carbs, dry weight
~56%
kcal/100 g
346

Ingredients

Listed first: Rice. 4% of the recipe is declared meat.

  • Meat 4%
  • Plants 10%
  • Other 1.3%
  • No amount given 84.7%

Rice, Potato Protein, Maize Gluten Meal, Beet Pulp (5%), Dried Peas (5%), Rapeseed Oil, Insect Meal (4%), Vegetable Stock, Minerals, Whole 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 (0.05%), Dried Parsley, Dried Rosemary, Yucca Extract (0.04%), Glucosamine (0.02%), Chondroitin (0.015%), Turmeric, Dried Spearmint.

Meat named animal proteinGrain cereals

Additives

Vitamin A 40,000IU, Vitamin D₃ 2,500IU, Vitamin E 125mg, Taurine 500mg. Amino Acids: Methionine 1000mg. Trace Elements: Iodine (as Calcium Iodate Anhydrous) 1.5mg, Selenium (as Sodium Selenite) 0.15mg, Copper (as Copper (II) Sulphate Pentahydrate) 7.5mg, Iron (as Iron (II) Sulphate Monohydrate) 75mg, Manganese (as Manganous Sulphate Monohydrate) 50mg, Zinc (as Zinc Sulphate Monohydrate) 100mg. Technological Additives: Antioxidants

How we read this label

First ingredient: “Rice”. It isn’t a named meat or fish.

On the labelWe read it asShare on the label
RiceGrainNot given
Potato ProteinVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
Maize Gluten MealGrainNot given
Beet Pulp (5%)Vegetable, fruit or plant5%
Dried Peas (5%)Vegetable, fruit or plant5%
Rapeseed OilFat, stock, extract or other processed ingredientNot given
Insect Meal (4%)Named meat4%
Vegetable StockFat, stock, extract or other processed ingredientPart of the item above
MineralsOtherNot given
Whole 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 Nettle (0.05%)Vegetable, fruit or plant0.05%
Dried ParsleyVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
Dried RosemaryVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
Yucca Extract (0.04%)Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient0.04%
Glucosamine (0.02%)Other0.02%
Chondroitin (0.015%)Other0.015%

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Nutrition

Protein 24% and carbs about 56%, with the water taken out.

As soldDry weight
Protein24%24%
below the usual 26 to 32% for dry foods
Fat8%8.1%
Carbohydrate~56%~56%
above the usual 39 to 50% for dry foods
Fibre4%4%
Ash7.5%7.6%
Moisture1%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.

Energy346 kcal/100 gCalculated from the analysis.

Why it scores 14

The kind of meat scored best (6 of 15). Meat scored lowest (2.1 of 45).

  1. How much meat?

    2.1 / 45
    • Meat on the label1.4 / 35

      4% declared meat, as weighed before cooking; full marks at 100%.

    • Protein level0.7 / 10

      Protein is 24.2% of the food with the water taken out. Nothing at 20% or less, full marks at 80%.

  2. How much starch?

    1.3 / 20

    About 56.1% 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?

    6 / 15
    • How the meat is listed6 / 12

      The label lists the meat as meal, which earns 50% 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 1,100th of 1,171 dry foods. 15 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 56% to 36% 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. 30 flagged nothing.

  • 3 noted
  • 30 nothing flagged
  • 1 not in our ingredient database yet
30 ingredients with nothing flagged

Antioxidants, beet pulp, blueberries, broth (meat stock), chicory root extract, chondroitin, DL-methionine, glucosamine, linseed (flaxseed), maize (corn) gluten, minerals, nettle, peas, rapeseed oil, rice, rosemary, seaweed, spinach, taurine, tocopherols (vitamin E), turmeric, 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
1 not in our ingredient database yet

Insect meal

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 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

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Cost per day and grams for your dog

Alternatives

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Carbs
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Carbs
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Carbs
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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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