Pedigree

Pedigree Adult Dry: With Beef & Vegetables review

Name: Pedigree Adult Dry: With Beef & Vegetables
Brand: Pedigree

26.8/100Poor

DryAdult

Flavour

Pedigree Adult is the dry food most people can picture without looking it up, and the recipe holds no surprises. It is written for medium and large adults and declares 353 kcal per 100g. The Chicken sits in our Average band and the Beef in Poor, and nearly every line on the label names a legal category in place of an ingredient.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Owners of medium and large adults who want a kibble they can pick up almost anywhere
Dogs that have eaten it happily for years and hold their condition
Portioning from a chart. The label runs from a 10kg dog up to a 50kg one
Vitamins and trace minerals declared with a dose per kilo

Worth watching

Only 4% tied to a named animal, no help in finding which meat a sensitive dog objects to
Unnamed cereals, so the grain can shift between batches
Estimated carbohydrate at 58.2% of dry matter against 46.2% typical

Written by our editorial team. Independent guidance, not veterinary advice.

How this scores

How we score

26.8/100Poor

Protein and processingPoor

Nutritional balancePoor

TransparencyAverage

ValuePoor

The details

Dog fit

Listed for medium and large adult dogs. The label's table asks 150 to 165 grams a day for a 10kg dog, so portion from it and watch the waistline.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Medium, Large

Main protein

Beef

The score, in context

With Chicken 30.2
With Beef 26.8

Two recipes across Average and Poor. Typical dry food: Good.

Both sit below the typical dry food, and the reason is how little of the recipe is named more than anything the analysis shows.

What's in it

CerealsNo grain named, so the mix can follow the market.
Meat and animal derivatives (including beef)4%A broad legal category; only the 4% is tied to beef.
Oils and fatsUnnamed.
Derivatives of vegetable origin (including dried beet pulp)3%Beet pulp is a useful fibre for stool quality.
Minerals
Vegetables (including dried peas and carrots mix)0.7%Equivalent to 4% before drying.
Yeast (including brewer's yeast)0.4%A real source of B vitamins.

B1, B2, D3, E and biotin dosed per kilo, with zinc at 51 mg and biotin at 0.15 mg, the two most tied to coat condition.

Named ingredients

Cereals*, Meat and Animal Derivatives (including Beef 4%), Oils and Fats, Derivatives of Vegetable Origin (including Dried Beet Pulp* 3%), Minerals, Vegetables* (including Dried Peas and Carrots mix 0.7%, equivalent to Peas and Carrots mix 4%), Yeast (including Brewer's Yeast 0.4%), *Natural ingredients

Against the range

Named meat: Beef, 4%; The Chicken names poultry at 4%.
Everything else: Beet pulp 3%, brewer's yeast 0.4%; Identical on the Chicken.

The one bag of the two that pins its named meat to a single species.

Both bags open with cereals, a word that covers wheat, maize, rice, barley and anything between, so the grain can change from one batch to the next. Meat and animal derivatives come second, with 4% named as beef on one and as poultry on the other. Oils and fats are unnamed, dried beet pulp sits at 3% and brewer's yeast at 0.4%.

The analysis is the same on both: protein at 21.7% of dry matter, fat at 9.8% and estimated carbohydrate at 58.2%, worked from an assumed 8% moisture because neither bag declares it.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

353 kcal/100g

Protein

20%

Fat

Fibre

2.5%

Ash

Dry weight

Protein

21.7%

Fat

9.8%

Fibre

2.7%

Ash

7.6%

Carbs

58.2%

As-fed composition

Estimated breakdown of the finished product by ingredient category, from the declared ingredient list and ingoing weights. These are estimates, not measurements.

Meat

27.6%

Carbs

54.1%

Veg

Oils

Other

6.4%

Pricing & size