Pedigree

Pedigree Puppy Junior Dry review

Name: Pedigree Puppy Junior Dry
Brand: Pedigree

23.3/100Poor

DryPuppy

Flavour

A mainstream growth kibble in three versions, plain, beef and poultry, and the plain one is the bag to read first. It is the only one that prints calcium, at 1.41% of dry matter, where growth wants it. Two bags sit in our Poor band and the poultry one in Average.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Owners who need a puppy food stocked in every supermarket and pet shop
Pups on a straightforward kibble: the plain bag runs at 377 kcal per 100g against a typical 376
Households rearing a litter, with bags up to 12kg
Pups who like a change of flavour
A large breed pup on the plain bag, which prints its calcium

Worth watching

Cereals lead all three, and carbohydrate reaches 44.6% of dry matter even on the plain bag
Only 4% of a named animal, so no bag here suits an exclusion diet
The flavoured bags print no calcium, which matters most for a large breed pup
Colourants on the plain bag's additive panel

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

How this scores

How we score

23.3/100Poor

Protein and processingPoor

Nutritional balanceGood

TransparencyGood

ValuePoor

The details

Dog fit

Listed for puppies of every size, toy to giant. For a large breed pup, pick the plain bag, the only one with calcium printed, and recheck the chart every couple of weeks.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Puppy

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

With Poultry 31.2
With Beef 29.7
Pedigree Puppy Junior Dry 23.3

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

Below the middle of the puppy shelf, mostly for what the labels leave unnamed; the food still rears a great many puppies perfectly well.

What's in it

Cereals, including rice4% riceThe grain type is not fixed and can change between batches. Only this bag names any of it.
Meat and animal derivatives, including chicken30%, 4% chickenAny warm-blooded land animal; chicken is the only fixed point.
Oils and fats, including sunflower oil0.4% sunflower oilA decent oil, easy on saturated fat.
Derivatives of vegetable origin
Vegetable protein extracts
Minerals

Vitamins D3 and E with zinc, manganese, copper, iodine and selenium as sodium selenite, plus antioxidants and colourants.

Colourants are declared on this bag's panel; the flavoured bags carry none.

Named ingredients

Cereals* (including Rice 4%), Meat and Animal Derivatives (30%, including Chicken 4%), Oils and Fats (including Sunflower Oil 0.4%), Derivatives of Vegetable Origin*, Vegetable Protein Extracts, Minerals, *Natural ingredients

Against the range

Calcium, dry matter: 1.41%; Not printed on the beef or poultry bag.
Moisture: Declared at 8.0%; Not printed on the other two.
Protein, dry matter: 29.7%; 27.2% on the flavoured bags.
Named fat: Sunflower oil; Unnamed on the other two.

The most fully declared bag of the three and the one to choose for a large breed pup.

All three bags lead with cereals, then meat and animal derivatives with only 4% of a named animal inside: chicken on the plain bag, beef or poultry on the flavoured two. The category covers any warm-blooded land animal, so the allergen picture is wide.

The plain bag is the most fully declared. It names rice and sunflower oil, prints moisture and prints calcium. The flavoured bags add beet pulp, a peas and carrots mix and brewer's yeast, but name no fat and print neither moisture nor calcium.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

377 kcal/100g

Protein

27.3%

Fat

13.9%

Fibre

2.6%

Ash

7.2%

Moisture

Dry weight

Protein

29.7%

Fat

15.1%

Fibre

2.8%

Ash

7.8%

Carbs

44.6%

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

30%

Carbs

54.8%

Oils

10.5%

Other

4.8%

Pricing & size