Pedigree Puppy Junior Dry: With Poultry & 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.

• Cereals
• Meat and animal derivatives, including poultry4% poultryPoultry covers any domestic fowl without saying which.
• Oils and fatsNo source named.
• Derivatives of vegetable origin, including dried beet pulp3% beet pulp
• Minerals
• Vegetables, including dried peas and carrots mix0.7%Equivalent to 4% fresh.
• Yeast, including brewer's yeast0.4%

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

Poultry, 4%, bird unnamed

Beef and chicken on the other two.

Fibre, as fed

2.3%

2% on the beef bag.

Bag sizes

3kg and 12kg

1.4kg for beef, 10kg for the plain bag.

The bigger bags in the range, a step less specific about its meat than the beef.

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

3kg, 12kg

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, and a little dear for what the analysis shows.