Wainwright's Sensitive Puppy Dry Dog Food Salmon with Superfoods

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Wainwright's Sensitive Puppy Dry Dog Food Salmon with Superfoods

DryCompletePuppyGrain-freeFish oil
41/ 100
WeakTop 18% of dry foods

89% of dry foods score under 45.

Score v6.1.0 · label checked 4 Oct 2026

Good points

  • One animal protein: fish
  • No ingredient deductions

Worth knowing

  • Added plant protein, starch or fibre
  • Includes digest or flavouring

First ingredients: Salmon (51%) (Freshly Prepared Scottish Salmon* 30%, Salmon Meal 18%, Salmon Digest 3%), Sweet Potato (32%), Salmon Oil (10%)… All ingredients

Retailer’s own label, fully checked
Meat
48.9%
Protein, dry weight
33%
Carbs, dry weight
~36%
kcal/100 g
407

Ingredients

Listed first: Salmon. 48.9% of the recipe is declared meat.

  • Meat 48.9%
  • Plants 33%
  • Other 11.1%
  • No amount given 4.9%

Salmon (51%) (Freshly Prepared Scottish Salmon* 30%, Salmon Meal 18%, Salmon Digest 3%), Sweet Potato (32%), Salmon Oil (10%), Potato Protein, Beet Pulp (1%), Krill Meal (0.9%), Seaweed Meal (0.1%), Chicory Root Extract (as a source of Prebiotic FOS) (0.05%), Green Lipped Mussel Extract (0.05%), Yucca Extract (0.02%)

Meat named animal protein

Additives

Nutritional Additives: Vitamins: Vitamin A 28,000 IU, Vitamin D3 1,000 IU, Vitamin E (as alpha tocopherol) 448 mg, L-Carnitine 25 mg. Trace Elements: Zinc (Zinc oxide) 50 mg, Iron (Iron (II) sulphate monohydrate) 32 mg, Zinc (Zinc chelate of protein hydrolysates) 25 mg, Manganese (Manganese (II) oxide) 20 mg, Copper (Copper (II) sulphate pentahydrate) 4.0 mg, Iodine (Calcium iodate, anhydrous) 1.2 mg Natural Antioxidants

How we read this label

First ingredient: “Salmon”. 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
Salmon (51%) (Freshly Prepared Scottish Salmon* 30%, Salmon…Named meat51%
Sweet Potato (32%)Vegetable, fruit or plant32%
Salmon Oil (10%)Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient10%
Potato ProteinVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
Beet Pulp (1%)Vegetable, fruit or plant1%
Krill Meal (0.9%)Named meat0.9%
Seaweed Meal (0.1%)Vegetable, fruit or plant0.1%
Chicory Root Extract (as a source of Prebiotic FOS) (0.05%)Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient0.05%
Green Lipped Mussel Extract (0.05%)Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient0.05%
Yucca Extract (0.02%)Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient0.02%

3% broth, gravy, fat or digest inside the meat figure isn't counted as meat.

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Nutrition

Protein 33% and carbs about 36%, with the water taken out.

Analysis as sold and with the water taken out
NutrientAs soldDry weight
Protein30%33%
above the usual 26 to 32% for dry foods
Fat19%21%
Carbohydrate~32%~36%
below the usual 39 to 50% for dry foods
Fibre2%2.2%
Ash7%7.8%
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.

Energy407 kcal/100 g

Why it scores 41

The kind of meat scored best (9.7 of 15). How it’s made scored lowest (4 of 20).

  1. How much meat?

    19.3 / 45 points
    • Meat on the label17.1 / 35 points

      48.9% declared meat, as weighed before cooking; full marks at 100%.

    • Protein level2.2 / 10 points

      Protein is 33.3% of the food with the water taken out. Nothing at 20% or less, full marks at 80%.

  2. How much starch?

    8.1 / 20 points

    Estimated carbohydrate: About 35.6% carbohydrate with the water taken out (our estimate). Full marks with no carbohydrate, none at 60% or more.

  3. How processed?

    4 / 20 points

    How it’s made: Extruded kibble: 6 of 20. Minus 2 for added plant protein, starch or fibre and digest or flavouring.

  4. What kind of meat?

    9.7 / 15 points
    • How the meat is listed9.7 / 12 points

      The label lists the meat as fresh and meal, which earns 81% 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 18% of dry foods. 25 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 36% to 19% 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. 18 flagged nothing.

  • 1 noted
  • 18 nothing flagged
18 ingredients with nothing flagged

Beet pulp, chicory root extract, green-lipped mussel, krill, l-carnitine, salmon, salmon oil, seaweed, sweet potato, tocopherols (vitamin E), vegetable protein extracts

Allowed up to a legal maximum, none declared above it: copper, iodine, iron, manganese, 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

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

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Cost per day and grams for your dog

Alternatives

4 dry foods score 8 to 20 points higher and cost up to 10% more.

Compare side by side →
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75% this food 48.9%
Carbs
about 18% this food about 36%
To feed
about the same per 1,000 kcal

+20 pointsCompare

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Carbs
about 8% this food about 36%
To feed
10% more per 1,000 kcal

+19 pointsCompare

Meat
72% this food 48.9%
Carbs
about 38% this food about 36%
To feed
6% more per 1,000 kcal

+12 pointsCompare

Meat
55% this food 48.9%
Carbs
about 26% this food about 36%
To feed
3% more per 1,000 kcal

+8 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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