Pedigree

Pedigree Tins with Jelly: With Chicken review

Name: Pedigree Tins with Jelly: With Chicken
Brand: Pedigree

46.7/100Average

WetAdult

Flavour

Average across all four, and the reason is the wording on the label. The analysis is good for a tin: protein converts to 41.1% of dry matter. This is the jelly version of Pedigree's gravy tins, and unlike plenty of labels it prints its thickener with a figure beside it.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Dogs that eat meat in jelly and leave a gravy bowl half finished
A tin stocked in nearly every supermarket, easy to top up midweek
Extra water in the diet, at 82.5% moisture
Rotating beef, chicken and lamb while the recipe underneath stays the same
A dog that likes a piece to chew. One selection is cut as chunks

Worth watching

Named meat held to 4% chicken or a 2% beef or lamb mix, with liver at 4% and the rest of the animal block unnamed
Cereals not named, so a dog kept off wheat or maize cannot be fed this with any certainty
Estimated carbohydrate at 24.1% of dry matter, against 15.8% for the typical adult wet food

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

How this scores

How we score

46.7/100Average

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceExcellent

TransparencyGood

ValueAverage

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults of every size. These are light tins at 77 kcal per 100g, so check the daily portion against your dog's weight before you order a case.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

Mixed Selection 6 x 400g 48.0
With Chicken 46.7
Mixed Selection Chunks 6 x 385g 45.2
Mixed Selection 12 x 385g / 24 x 385g 35.8

All four Average. Typical wet food: Excellent.

The whole range sits well below the typical wet food because so little of each tin is pinned down as named meat, while the analysis itself holds up well.

What's in it

Meat and animal derivatives, including chicken and liver4% eachChicken and liver are the only animals named. The rest of the block is not.
Cereals
Vegetable protein extractsCounts towards the protein figure as meat does.
Minerals
Derivatives of vegetable origin, including dried beet pulp0.5%

Vitamin D3 at 300 IU, vitamin E at 20.0 mg and five trace minerals per kilo, with cassia gum to set the jelly.

Beef and lamb are not printed, but the meat and animal derivatives entry means this tin cannot be used to exclude them.

Named ingredients

Meat and Animal Derivatives* (including Chicken 4% and Liver 4%), Cereals, Vegetable Protein Extracts, Minerals, Derivatives of Vegetable Origin (including Dried Beet Pulp 0.5%), *97% Natural

Against the range

Named meat: Chicken 4%, liver 4%; The cases add beef 2% and lamb 2% recipes.
Pack: Single tin; Cases of three recipes on the rest.

The one to pick for a dog that only wants chicken on the label.

Every label opens on meat and animal derivatives, with the named animal held to chicken at 4% or a 2% mix of beef or lamb, each with liver at 4%. Cereals and vegetable protein extracts follow, neither named, then dried beet pulp at 0.5%. The jelly is set with cassia gum, printed at 2100 mg per kilo.

The analysis is the same on every tin: protein 7.2%, fat 3.8%, moisture 82.5% and 77 kcal per 100g. What varies is the packing: mixed cases, a chunk cut, a carrot version and a single chicken tin.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

77 kcal/100g

Protein

7.2%

Fat

3.8%

Fibre

0.3%

Ash

Moisture

82.5%

Dry weight

Protein

41.1%

Fat

21.7%

Fibre

1.7%

Ash

11.4%

Carbs

24.1%

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

0.5%

Added water

1.8%

Carbs

0.6%

Other

97.1%

Pricing & size