Pedigree Pouches in Jelly: Chicken 3 x 100g review

The two packs finish alongside one another. Both settle in our Average band, and the same analysis is printed on each, so what tells them apart is what each label puts on show. The mixed pack names four different animals across its recipes, and the chicken pack names one. Transparency reads Excellent on the chicken pack and Good on the mixed. Protein and processing is the pillar holding both back: Poor on the chicken pack, Average on the mixed one. The analysis has genuine strengths, with protein converting to 50.0% of dry matter and the estimated carbohydrate to 12.3%, which is below the 15.8% typical of the category, so this is not a starchy pouch. What neither pack pins down is where its animal content comes from. The typical adult wet food reaches our Excellent band by feeding well and saying so, and that is where the gap opens up.

Ingredients, as declared: Meat and Animal Derivatives* (including Chicken 14% and Pork Liver 9% in the Chunk), Cereals, Vegetable Protein Extracts, Minerals, Derivatives of Vegetable Origin (Dried Beet Pulp 0.5%), Yeast (Mannan-Oligosaccharides 0.1%), *95% Natural, Chunk typically 48% of the product

The chunk does the work, and at typically 48% of the pouch it is a decent share of what your dog eats. It is made from meat and animal derivatives, a category term covering the fleshy parts and processing derivatives of warm blooded land animals. What sits inside can be good material or plain, and the outside of the pouch will not say. Inside it the label pins down the named meat, at 14% for chicken and poultry and 6% for the beef mix. Pork liver at 9% earns its place too, for the vitamin A, copper and B vitamins liver carries.

Cereals and vegetable protein extracts follow. Both are umbrella terms and both are free to shift between batches. The vegetable protein is the one worth understanding. Plant protein counts towards the figure on the analysis, yet for a dog it is nutritionally weaker than meat protein. A strong protein conversion here does not translate straight into a strong meat content.

The named plant entries are dried beet pulp at 0.5%, a fibre that helps firm up a stool, and mannan-oligosaccharides at 0.1% from yeast, a genuine prebiotic present at a token level. Minerals are listed as an ingredient themselves, and that is why ash converts to 10.6% of dry matter.

The jelly sets because of cassia gum at 2100 mg per kilo. It is a common technological additive in wet pet food and it is declared plainly here, which is more than every label manages. Some owners prefer to avoid it, and that is worth knowing ahead of a box of eighty.

The added nutritional panel is dosed to the milligram. Vitamin D3 sits at 200 IU per kilo, vitamin E at 34.3 mg, copper at 1.7 mg, iodine at 0.28, iron at 3.6, manganese at 2.2 and zinc at 17.1. The analysis alongside it flatters the ingredient list, with protein at 50.0% of dry matter, fat at a moderate 24.7% and carbohydrate estimated at only 12.3%. This is a lean, light pouch made from material the maker will not name.

A three pouch chicken pack. The chunk runs to typically 48% of the pouch, and it names chicken at 14% with pork liver at 9%. One recipe, one named bird, no second animal beyond the pork liver, and a small enough pack to test whether your dog prefers jelly before you commit to a box.

Pack sizes run 3, 12, 40 and 80 pouches, each of 100g. There was no checked per-kilo figure to work from for either pack, so no per-kilo or per-day figure appears.

A 15kg adult dog in moderate condition would need about 1091 grams a day, worked from the standard maintenance estimate of 110 × bodyweight^0.75, roughly 840 kcal for a dog that size. The label itself asks for 400 grams a day at 5kg, 700 grams at 10kg and 1300 grams at 20kg, so it lands in much the same territory.