Waita Dog Food Review & Ratings

Ignore Waita's brand average. It is the one number on this page that will actively mislead you, and it is worth explaining why rather than quietly leaving it there.

Across 3 rated items the scores run from 35 to 94 - a spread of 59 points, the widest in its group. That is not a brand with one excellent recipe and one bad one. It is a brand where different kinds of product are being rated on the same scale. Most of what Waita sells is freeze-dried topper and treat material, and our score is generous to those almost by definition, because a pouch of pure freeze-dried meat has a short, clean, entirely named ingredient list. Waita Freeze Dried Complete Food reaching 94/100 reflects that.

The complete food is the one being asked to do the hard job - balance every nutrient a dog needs across a full day - and it is scored against that standard. It is the lower number. Comparing it against a topper tells you nothing useful about either.

So: judge the toppers as toppers, where they look good, and judge the complete food on its own page against other complete foods. The brand average sitting between them describes a product that does not exist.

Freeze-dried is expensive per kilo because most of the weight has been removed. That is fine for a topper used sparingly and a serious cost consideration for anything you feed as a main meal.