Wainwright's Puppy Dry Dog Food Salmon with Rice

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Wainwright's Puppy Dry Dog Food Salmon with Rice

DryCompletePuppyContains grain
34/ 100
WeakTop 39% of 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
  • Added plant protein, starch or fibre

First ingredients: Salmon (36%) (Dried Salmon 31%, Freshly Prepared Salmon 5%), Rice (26%), Whole Grain Barley (9%), Maize Protein, Rapeseed Oil… All ingredients

Retailer’s own label, fully checked
Meat
36%
Protein, dry weight
33%
Carbs, dry weight
~42%
kcal/100 g
343

Ingredients

Listed first: Salmon. 36% of the recipe is declared meat.

  • Meat 36%
  • Grain 39.5%
  • Plants 11%
  • Other 0.2%
  • No amount given 13.3%

Salmon (36%) (Dried Salmon 31%, Freshly Prepared Salmon 5%), Rice (26%), Whole Grain Barley (9%), Maize Protein, Rapeseed Oil, Beet Pulp (5%), Whole Ground Oats (4.5%), Dried Peas (3% equivalent to 12.5% Peas), Linseed (2%), Dried Carrots (1% equivalent to 8% Carrots), Seaweed (0.2%), Yucca Extract (0.02%)

Meat named animal proteinGrain cereals

Additives

Vitamins: Vitamin A 15,000IU, Vitamin D3 1,500IU, Vitamin E 200mg. Trace Elements: Zinc (as Zinc Sulphate Monohydrate) 75mg, Iron (as Iron (II) Sulphate Monohydrate) 50mg, 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 (36%) (Dried Salmon 31%, Freshly Prepared Salmon 5%)Named meat36%
Rice (26%)Grain26%
Whole Grain Barley (9%)Grain9%
Maize ProteinGrainNot given
Rapeseed OilFat, stock, extract or other processed ingredientNot given
Beet Pulp (5%)Vegetable, fruit or plant5%
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%
Dried Carrots (1% equivalent to 8% Carrots)Vegetable, fruit or plant1%
Seaweed (0.2%)Vegetable, fruit or plant0.2%
Yucca Extract (0.02%)Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient0.02%

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Nutrition

Protein 33% and carbs about 42%, with the water taken out.

As soldDry weight
Protein29.5%33%
above the usual 26 to 32% for dry foods
Fat12.5%14%
Carbohydrate~38%~42%
within the usual 39 to 50% for dry foods
Fibre2.5%2.8%
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.

Energy343 kcal/100 gCalculated from the analysis.

Why it scores 34

The kind of meat scored best (8.9 of 15). How it’s made scored lowest (5 of 20).

  1. How much meat?

    14.7 / 45
    • Meat on the label12.6 / 35

      36% declared meat, as weighed before cooking; full marks at 100%.

    • Protein level2.1 / 10

      Protein is 32.8% of the food with the water taken out. Nothing at 20% or less, full marks at 80%.

  2. How much starch?

    5.9 / 20

    About 42.2% 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?

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

      The label lists the meat as dried and fresh, which earns 74% 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 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 Forthglade Puppy Chicken & Liver Wet Dog Food (scores 73): carbs fall from 42% to 24% by dry weight, and protein is about 38%.

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. 20 flagged nothing.

  • 1 noted
  • 20 nothing flagged
20 ingredients with nothing flagged

Barley, beet pulp, carrot, linseed (flaxseed), maize (corn) gluten, 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/kgCheapest in stockVisit
Pets at Home2kg · £9.49 up 11% since 10 Aug2kg£9.49£4.75/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
4 Oct 2026Pets at Home2kg£9.49£4.75/kg
27 Sep 2026Pets at Home15kg£44.99£3.00/kg
27 Sep 2026Pets at Home2kg£8.54£4.27/kg
10 Aug 2026Pets at Home15kg£44.99£3.00/kg
10 Aug 2026Pets at Home2kg£8.54£4.27/kg

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Cost per day and grams for your dog

Alternatives

4 dry foods score 15 to 27 points higher and cost up to 23% more.

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Carbs
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Carbs
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To feed
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Carbs
about 38% this food about 42%
To feed
22% more per 1,000 kcal

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Carbs
about 26% this food about 42%
To feed
19% more per 1,000 kcal

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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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