Wildways Fresh Beef with Buffalo Mature Dry Dog Food

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Wildways Fresh Beef with Buffalo Mature Dry Dog Food

DryCompleteSeniorGrain-freeFish oil
49/ 100
FairTop 6% of dry foods

89% of dry foods score under 45.

Score v6.1.0 · label checked 4 Oct 2026

Good points

  • 72% meat
  • No ingredient deductions
  • Includes organ meat

Worth knowing

  • Some meat not named by animal
  • Added plant protein, starch or fibre
  • Includes hydrolysed protein

First ingredients: COMPOSITIONFresh Beef (40%), Beef Protein (16%), Buffalo Protein (14%), Peas (12.5%), Lignocellulose (4%)… All ingredients

Retailer’s own label, fully checked
Meat
72%
Protein, dry weight
30%
Carbs, dry weight
~42%
kcal/100 g
347

Ingredients

Listed first: Fresh Beef. 72% of the recipe is declared meat.

  • Meat 72%
  • Plants 18%
  • Other 8%
  • No amount given 2%

COMPOSITIONFresh Beef (40%), Beef Protein (16%), Buffalo Protein (14%), Peas (12.5%), Lignocellulose (4%), Poultry Fat (2%), Hydrolysed Poultry Liver (2%), Chickpeas (2%), Dried Apple Pulp (2%), Pumpkin (1.5%), Salmon Oil (1%), Eggs Shells (0.5%), Potassium Chloride (0.4%), Pea Flour, Glucosamine (0.022%), Mannan-oligosaccharides (0.02%), Inulin (source of Fructo-oligosaccharides 0.015%), Yucca Mojave (0.015%), Chondroitin Sulphate (0.013%), Dried Milk Thistle (0.01%), Dried Rosemary (0.003%), Dried Curcuma Turmeric (0.003%).

Meat named animal protein

Additives

Vitamin A 20,000IU, Vitamin D³ 1,350IU, Vitamin E 745IU, Vitamin C 240mg, Taurine 2,500mg, Choline Chloride 2,400mg, Biotin 0.5mg. Antioxidants

How we read this label

First ingredient: “Fresh Beef”. 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
Fresh Beef (40%)Named meat40%
Beef Protein (16%)Named meat16%
Buffalo Protein (14%)Named meat14%
Peas (12.5%)Vegetable, fruit or plant12.5%
Lignocellulose (4%)Other4%
Poultry Fat (2%)Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient2%
Hydrolysed Poultry Liver (2%)Meat, animal not named2%
Chickpeas (2%)Vegetable, fruit or plant2%
Dried Apple Pulp (2%)Vegetable, fruit or plant2%
Pumpkin (1.5%)Vegetable, fruit or plant1.5%
Salmon Oil (1%)Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient1%
Eggs Shells (0.5%)Other0.5%
Potassium Chloride (0.4%)Other0.4%
Pea FlourVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
Glucosamine (0.022%)Other0.022%
Mannan-oligosaccharides (0.02%)Other0.02%
Inulin (source of Fructo-oligosaccharides 0.015%)Vegetable, fruit or plant0.015%
Yucca Mojave (0.015%)Other0.015%
Chondroitin Sulphate (0.013%)Other0.013%
Dried Milk Thistle (0.01%)Other0.01%

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Nutrition

Protein 30% and carbs about 42%, with the water taken out.

Analysis as sold and with the water taken out
NutrientAs soldDry weight
Protein27%30%
within the usual 26 to 32% for dry foods
Fat13%14%
Carbohydrate~38%~42%
within the usual 39 to 50% for dry foods
Fibre5.5%6.1%
Ash6.5%7.2%
Moisture10%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.

Energy347 kcal/100 g

Why it scores 49

The kind of meat scored best (12.2 of 15). How it’s made scored lowest (4 of 20).

  1. How much meat?

    26.9 / 45 points
    • Meat on the label25.2 / 35 points

      72% declared meat, as weighed before cooking; full marks at 100%.

    • Protein level1.7 / 10 points

      Protein is 30% of the food with the water taken out. Nothing at 20% or less, full marks at 80%.

  2. How much starch?

    5.9 / 20 points

    Estimated carbohydrate: About 42.2% 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 hydrolysed protein.

  4. What kind of meat?

    12.2 / 15 points
    • How the meat is listed9.2 / 12 points

      The label lists the meat as fresh, meal and unnamed hydrolysed, which earns 77% of these points. Fresh or raw named meat earns all of them, dried 70%, meal half, hydrolysed a quarter, an unnamed category none.

    • Organ meat3 / 3 points

      Organ meat such as liver, heart, kidney or tripe is 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 6% of dry foods. 12 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 Animonda GranCarno Original Senior (scores 69): carbs fall from 42% to 26% 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

2 noted: liver and yucca extract. 25 flagged nothing.

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

Antioxidants, apples, biotin (vitamin H/B7), chickpeas, chicory root extract, choline chloride, chondroitin, egg, glucosamine, lignocellulose, mannan-oligosaccharides (MOS), milk thistle, peas, potassium chloride, poultry fat, processed animal protein, pumpkin, rosemary, salmon oil, taurine, tocopherols (vitamin E), turmeric, vitamin C (ascorbic acid)

Allowed up to a legal maximum, none declared above it: vitamin A (retinyl acetate), vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol)

Checked against the EU Catalogue of Feed Materials and FEDIAF guidelines.

Sources for these ingredients
2 not in our ingredient database yet

Buffalo protein, compositionfresh beef

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

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 · £13.99 up 11% since 10 Aug2kg£13.99£7.00/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£13.99£7.00/kg
27 Sep 2026Pets at Home12kg£46.74£3.90/kg
27 Sep 2026Pets at Home2kg£11.89£5.95/kg
10 Aug 2026Pets at Home12kg£49.49£4.12/kg
10 Aug 2026Pets at Home2kg£12.59£6.29/kg

Your dog

Cost per day and grams for your dog

Alternatives

1 dry food scores 11 points higher at the same price or less.

Compare side by side →
Meat
78% this food 72%
Carbs
about 8% this food about 42%
To feed
6% less per 1,000 kcal

+11 points

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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