Pedigree

Pedigree Tins in Gravy: With Beef review

Name: Pedigree Tins in Gravy: With Beef
Brand: Pedigree

45.5/100Average

WetAdult

Flavour

The tin most people picture when someone says dog food: soft, gravy covered, in beef, chicken or lamb. The whole range sits in our Average band because the label says so little, with category terms doing almost all the work. Nothing in the tin itself is troubling.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Dogs already eating it happily, with no reason on the label to disturb the routine
A tin you can replace anywhere, corner shop to supermarket
Fussy eaters who go for soft food in gravy
Dogs that leave the water bowl alone: moisture is 80.8% of every tin
Switching between beef, chicken and lamb on the same recipe

Worth watching

Only a small share of the tin is named, with the rest written as meat and animal derivatives
Unnamed cereals and vegetable protein extracts, which rules these tins out of a grain or soya elimination diet
Carbohydrate at an estimated 28.6% of dry matter against 15.8% for the typical adult wet food
Light tins at 84 kcal per 100g, so a bigger dog gets through them fast

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

How this scores

How we score

45.5/100Average

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceExcellent

TransparencyGood

ValueAverage

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults of every size. Work out the daily tin count for your dog before ordering a case, since these are lighter than most wet food.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Beef

The score, in context

With Chicken 45.9
Mixed Selection 6 x 400g / 12 x 400g 45.5
With Beef 45.5
Mixed Selection 6 x 400g 36.1

All four Average. Typical wet food: Excellent.

A label written almost entirely in legal category terms leaves our scoring little to reward on the meat; the score measures how much the label shows, not whether the tin is safe.

What's in it

Meat and animal derivativesAny warm blooded land animal, so chicken and lamb cannot be ruled out.
Beef2%Part of a mix with liver.
Liver4%
CerealsNo grain named. They carry more of the tin than a wet recipe usually asks.
Minerals
Vegetable protein extractsPlant protein pulled out and added back, so part of the protein figure is plant.
Derivatives of vegetable originIncludes dried beet pulp at 0.5%.

Vitamin D3, vitamin E and five trace minerals, each with a printed dose per kilo.

Named ingredients

Meat and Animal Derivatives* (including a Mix of Beef 2% and Liver 4%), Cereals, Minerals, Vegetable Protein Extracts, Derivatives of Vegetable Origin (including Dried Beet Pulp 0.5%), *95% Natural

Against the range

Named animal: Beef 2%; Chicken 4% on the chicken tin
Other animals printed: None; The selections name chicken and lamb too

The tin for a dog that prefers beef, though the wider meat term still covers other species.

Every tin runs on the same short list: meat and animal derivatives, cereals, minerals, vegetable protein extracts and derivatives of vegetable origin. The named animal is small, chicken at 4% or beef or lamb at 2%, with liver at 4% behind it. The analysis is identical across the range.

What varies is the animal and the packaging. The decorated selection adds dried carrots and, in the beef tin, a little pasta; the plain selection and the two singles carry neither.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

84 kcal/100g

Protein

Fat

4.2%

Fibre

0.5%

Ash

Moisture

80.8%

Dry weight

Protein

36.5%

Fat

21.9%

Fibre

2.6%

Ash

10.4%

Carbs

28.6%

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

0.9%

Added water

Carbs

0.9%

Other

95.2%

Pricing & size