Wildways Fresh Beef with Venison Mature Wet Dog Food

1 price from Pets at Home

Wildways Fresh Beef with Venison Mature Wet Dog Food

WetCompleteSeniorGrain-freeFish oil
61/ 100

Score v6.1.0 · label checked 4 Oct 2026

Good points

  • 63% meat
  • Low starch, about 9% carbs
  • No ingredient deductions

Worth knowing

  • Added plant protein, starch or fibre

First ingredients: Fresh Chicken (33%), Fresh Beef (26%), Venison (4%), Broth, Pumpkin (4%)… All ingredients

Retailer’s own label, fully checked
Meat
63%
Protein, dry weight
40%
Carbs, dry weight
~9%
kcal/100 g
106

Ingredients

Listed first: Fresh Chicken. 63% of the recipe is declared meat.

  • Meat 63%
  • Plants 7%
  • Other 6.5%
  • No amount given 23.5%

Composition: Fresh Chicken (33%), Fresh Beef (26%), Venison (4%), Broth, Pumpkin (4%), Apple (3%), Pea Flour, Derivatives Of Vegetable Origin (1.4 %), Lignocellulose (1%), Egg Powder (1%), Minerals and Vitamins (0.8%), Salmon Oil (0.5%), Mannan-oligosaccharides (0.5%), Inulin (source of Fructo-oligosaccharides 0.5%), Kale (0.5%), Thyme (0.3%).

Meat named animal protein

Additives

Vitamin A 750IU, Vitamin D³ 200IU, Vitamin E 100IU, Vitamin B1 1mg, Taurine 800mg, Biotin 0.5mg. Preservatives

How we read this label

First ingredient: “Fresh Chicken”. 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 Chicken (33%)Named meat33%
Fresh Beef (26%)Named meat26%
Venison (4%)Named meat4%
BrothFat, stock, extract or other processed ingredientPart of the item above
Pumpkin (4%)Vegetable, fruit or plant4%
Apple (3%)Vegetable, fruit or plant3%
Pea FlourVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
Derivatives Of Vegetable Origin (1.4%)A group name, not one ingredient1.4%
Lignocellulose (1%)Other1%
Egg Powder (1%)Other1%
Minerals and Vitamins (0.8%)Other0.8%
Salmon Oil (0.5%)Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient0.5%
Mannan-oligosaccharides (0.5%)Other0.5%
Inulin (source of Fructo-oligosaccharides 0.5%)Vegetable, fruit or plant0.5%
Kale (0.5%)Vegetable, fruit or plant0.5%
Thyme (0.3%).Vegetable, fruit or plant0.3%

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Nutrition

Protein 40% and carbs about 9%, with the water taken out.

Analysis as sold and with the water taken out
NutrientAs soldDry weight
Protein10.7%40%
within the usual 38 to 48% for wet foods
Fat7.2%27%
Carbohydrate~2.3%~8.6%
within the usual 9 to 21% for wet foods
Fibre4.3%16%
Ash2.3%8.6%
Moisture73.2%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.

Energy106 kcal/100 g

Why it scores 61

Starch scored best (17.1 of 20). How it’s made scored lowest (7 of 20).

  1. How much meat?

    25.4 / 45 points
    • Meat on the label22.1 / 35 points

      63% declared meat, as weighed before cooking; full marks at 100%.

    • Protein level3.3 / 10 points

      Protein is 39.9% of the food with the water taken out. Nothing at 20% or less, full marks at 80%.

  2. How much starch?

    17.1 / 20 points

    Estimated carbohydrate: About 8.6% carbohydrate with the water taken out (our estimate). Full marks with no carbohydrate, none at 60% or more.

  3. How processed?

    7 / 20 points

    How it’s made: 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 points
    • How the meat is listed12 / 12 points

      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 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 wet foods

Tied 269th of 639 wet foods. 60 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: derivatives of vegetable origin. 22 flagged nothing.

  • 1 noted
  • 22 nothing flagged
22 ingredients with nothing flagged

Apples, beef, biotin (vitamin H/B7), broth (meat stock), chicken, chicory root extract, egg, kale, lignocellulose, mannan-oligosaccharides (MOS), minerals, peas, preservatives, pumpkin, salmon oil, taurine, thyme, tocopherols (vitamin E), venison, vitamin B1 (thiamine)

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

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 Home300g · £2.99 up 11% since 10 Aug300g£2.99£9.97/kgVisit

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

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DayShopPackPricePer kg
4 Oct 2026Pets at Home300g£2.99£9.97/kg
27 Sep 2026Pets at Home300g£2.54£8.47/kg
10 Aug 2026Pets at Home300g£2.69£8.97/kg

Your dog

Cost per day and grams for your dog

Alternatives

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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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