Pedigree

Pedigree in Loaf Tins review

Name: Pedigree in Loaf Tins
Brand: Pedigree

44/100Average

WetAdult

Flavour

The soft, sliceable 400g tin most British owners would recognise, and both entries land in our Average band. The placing comes from how little named meat reaches the list. Nothing inside the tin is a worry.

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Our view

Likely to suit

A soft loaf for an older mouth or a dog missing teeth
Owners who want the tins to come home with the weekly shop
Dogs carrying a bit too much, at 87 kcal per 100g against 97 for the typical adult wet food
A printed guide for every size, from 350 grams a day at 5kg to 1900 grams at 40kg
Dogs that need more water in them, with moisture at 81.0%

Worth watching

Meat and animal derivatives can cover any warm-blooded land animal, so no tin here can anchor an elimination diet
Unnamed cereals, which can change while the wording stays put
Only the small inclusions carry percentages, such as beef at 2% and pork liver at 4%
Ash at 11.1% of dry matter, with minerals listed as an ingredient

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

How this scores

How we score

44/100Average

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyGood

ValueAverage

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adult dogs of every size. If your dog avoids any meat, clear it against every recipe in the case first.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Beef

The score, in context

Mixed Selection 12 x 400g 44.3
Pedigree in Loaf Tins 44.0

All two Average. Typical wet food: Excellent.

Our bands reward named meat, and this tin points to very little of it; that is a description of the label, not a safety verdict.

What's in it

Meat and animal derivativesA legal category, not a description. Any warm-blooded land animal, in any proportion.
Beef, pork liver (within the above)2%, 4%The only animals pinned down.
CerealsAny grain qualifies.
MineralsListed in their own right, which explains the ash.
Derivatives of vegetable originCovers nearly anything grown once processed.
Dried beet pulp (within the above)0.5%Fibre for firmer stools.

A properly dosed panel: vitamin D3 and E with copper, iodine, iron, manganese and zinc as sulphates or iodate.

The 95% natural asterisk covers the recipe as a whole and says nothing about which animals are in it.

Named ingredients

Meat and Animal Derivatives* (including a Mix of Beef 2% and Pork Liver 4%), Cereals, Minerals, Derivatives of Vegetable Origin (including Dried Beet Pulp 0.5%), *95% Natural

Against the range

Named animals: Beef 2%, pork liver 4%; The case adds chicken and lamb recipes
Rotation: One recipe; Three in the mixed case

The plainest label of the two, for a dog that has settled on the original.

Category terms make up nearly the whole list: meat and animal derivatives first, then cereals, minerals and derivatives of vegetable origin. The named meats are small inclusions inside the first block, and dried beet pulp at 0.5% is the only named plant. The analysis and additive panel are identical across the original tin and the mixed case.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

87 kcal/100g

Protein

7.5%

Fat

Fibre

0.4%

Ash

2.1%

Moisture

81%

Dry weight

Protein

39.5%

Fat

26.3%

Fibre

2.1%

Ash

11.1%

Carbs

21%

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

Added water

Carbs

0.8%

Other

95.2%

Pricing & size