Pedigree Puppy Junior Dry: With Beef & Vegetables review

1. With Poultry 31.2
2. With Beef 29.7
3. 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.

• CerealsGrain type not stated.
• Meat and animal derivatives, including beef4% beefThe rest of the category is unquantified.
• Oils and fatsNo source named.
• Derivatives of vegetable origin, including dried beet pulp3% beet pulpGentle fibre.
• Minerals
• Vegetables, including dried peas and carrots mix0.7%Equivalent to 4% fresh.
• Yeast, including brewer's yeast0.4%Good for B vitamins, a garnish at this level.

Vitamins B2, D3 and E with biotin, and zinc, manganese, copper, iodine and selenium, with antioxidants and preservatives.

No calcium figure on the label, though it is sold for giant breed pups.

Named animal

Beef, 4%

Chicken on the plain bag, poultry on the other.

Calcium

Not printed

Only the plain bag prints it.

Extras

Beet pulp, peas and carrots, brewer's yeast

Shared with the poultry bag; the plain bag has none.

The flavour choice for a pup that prefers beef, sold in a small bag.

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.

Price per kilo

£2.25 (RRP)

Pack

1.4kg

A 15kg dog eats (our estimate)

205 to 250 g a day, 230 in the middle

Cost per day, 15kg dog

£0.52

Budget end of the market for a dry food, though the Value reading is Poor.