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Pedigree Senior Wet: Mixed Selection in Jelly Pouches review

Name: Pedigree Senior Wet: Mixed Selection in Jelly Pouches
Brand: Pedigree

45.2/100Average

WetAdultSenior

Flavour

A senior wet food in two formats, a jelly pouch selection and a case of loaf tins. Both are soft, moist, moderate meals an older dog will eat happily, with pork liver the most useful thing on either list. Both land in our Average band, the pouches nearer the top of it.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Older dogs that find hard food heavy work
A faded appetite, with four pouch recipes and three tins to rotate
Keeping a senior at a level weight, at 80 and 86 kcal per 100g
Dogs drinking less with age, as both formats are mostly moisture
Two dogs of different ages, since both formats list adults too

Worth watching

Meat and animal derivatives leads both labels
Unnamed cereals, so no grain elimination plan
Pork liver in every recipe
Cassia gum and unnamed oils and fats in the pouches

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

How this scores

How we score

45.2/100Average

Protein and processingPoor

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyExcellent

ValueAverage

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults and seniors of every size. Both are fed to the makers' charts, so let your dog's condition guide the scoop.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult, Senior

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Pork

The score, in context

Mixed Selection in Jelly Pouches 45.2
Mixed Selection in Loaf Tins 34.5

All two Average. Typical wet food: Excellent.

Neither format feeds a dog badly; they feed it without saying what is in the bowl, and the pouches come closer to leaving Average.

What's in it

Meat and animal derivativesA legal category for any warm-blooded land animal; no guarantee one batch matches the last.
Chicken or poultry; beef or lamb mix14%; 6%The named fixed points, in the chunk, by recipe.
Pork liver9%Vitamin A, B12, copper and selenium, and it tastes good to a dog that needs tempting.
Vegetable protein extractsAhead of the cereals, so part of the protein is plant.
CerealsUnnamed.
Oils and fatsThe label does not say which.
Minerals
Derivatives of vegetable origin, including dried beet pulp0.5%
Yeast (mannan-oligosaccharides)0.1%

Vitamin D3, vitamin E at a generous 90.0 mg per kilo, and copper, iodine, iron, manganese and zinc as sulphates and iodate, plus cassia gum to set the jelly.

Cassia gum at 2100 mg per kilo sets the jelly, and the oils and fats are unnamed.

Named ingredients

With Beef and Liver Mix: Meat and Animal Derivatives* (including a Mix of Beef 6% and Pork Liver 9% in the Chunk), Vegetable Protein Extracts, Cereals, Oils and Fats, Minerals, Derivatives of Vegetable Origin (including Dried Beet Pulp 0.5%), Yeast (Mannan-oligosaccharides 0.1%) *91% Natural Chunk typically 48% of the product, With Chicken: Meat and Animal Derivatives* (including Chicken 14% and Pork Liver 9% in the Chunk), Vegetable Protein Extracts, Cereals, Oils and Fats, Minerals, Derivatives of Vegetable Origin (including Dried Beet Pulp 0.5%), Yeast (Mannan-oligosaccharides 0.1%) ^91% Natural Chunk typically 48% of the product, With Lamb and Liver Mix: Meat and Animal Derivatives* (including a Mix of Lamb 6% and Pork Liver 9% in the Chunk), Vegetable Protein Extracts, Cereals, Oils and Fats, Minerals, Derivatives of Vegetable Origin (including Dried Beet Pulp 0.5%), Yeast (Mannan-oligosaccharides 0.1%) *91% Natural Chunk typically 48% of the product, With Poultry: Meat and Animal Derivatives* (including Poultry 14% and Pork Liver 9% in the Chunk), Vegetable Protein Extracts, Cereals, Oils and Fats, Minerals, Derivatives of Vegetable Origin (including Dried Beet Pulp 0.5%), Yeast (Mannan-oligosaccharides 0.1%) *91% Natural Chunk typically 48% of the product, With Beef and Liver Mix: Meat and Animal Derivatives^ (including a Mix of Beef 6% and Pork Liver 9% in the Chunk), Vegetable Protein Extracts, Cereals, Oils and Fats, Minerals, Derivatives of Vegetable Origin (including Dried Beet Pulp 0.5%), Yeast (Mannan-Oligosaccharides 0.1%) ^91% Natural Chunk typically 48% of the product, With Chicken: Meat and Animal Derivatives^ (including Chicken 14% and Pork Liver 9% in the Chunk), Vegetable Protein Extracts, Cereals, Oils and Fats, Minerals, Derivatives of Vegetable Origin (including Dried Beet Pulp 0.5%), Yeast (Mannan-Oligosaccharides 0.1%) ^91% Natural Chunk typically 48% of the product, With Lamb and Liver Mix: Meat and Animal Derivatives^ (including a Mix of Lamb 6% and Pork Liver 9% in the Chunk), Vegetable Protein Extracts, Cereals, Oils and Fats, Minerals, Derivatives of Vegetable Origin (including Dried Beet Pulp 0.5%), Yeast (Mannan-Oligosaccharides 0.1%) ^91% Natural Chunk typically 48% of the product, With Poultry: Meat and Animal Derivatives^ (including Poultry 14% and Pork Liver 9% in the Chunk), Vegetable Protein Extracts, Cereals, Oils and Fats, Minerals, Derivatives of Vegetable Origin (including Dried Beet Pulp 0.5%), Yeast (Mannan-Oligosaccharides 0.1%) ^91% Natural Chunk typically 48% of the product

Against the range

Named meat: 14% or 6%, pork liver 9%; 4% each on the tins.
Protein, dry matter: 48.0%; 42.1% on the tins.
Carbohydrate, dry matter: 10.2%; 18.9% on the tins.
Vitamin E: 90.0 mg per kilo; 30.0 mg on the tins.

The better analysis of the two, and the clearest sign the recipe was adjusted for age.

Both formats build on meat and animal derivatives, with the named meats a small declared part of it and pork liver in every recipe. Cereals go unnamed throughout, and dried beet pulp at 0.5% is the named fibre on both.

The pouches add vegetable protein extracts, unnamed oils and fats, yeast and cassia gum to set the jelly. The tins are shorter, with no plant protein extract and no thickener. The added panels are dosed, with more vitamin E in the pouches.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

80 kcal/100g

Protein

8.4%

Fat

4.7%

Fibre

0.5%

Ash

2.1%

Moisture

82.5%

Dry weight

Protein

48%

Fat

26.9%

Fibre

2.9%

Ash

12%

Carbs

10.2%

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.

Other

100%

Pricing & size