Pedigree Small Dog Grilled Steak and Vegetable Flavor Dry Dog Food
Top 5 ingredients of Pedigree Small Dog Grilled Steak and Vegetable Flavor Dry Dog Food are Whole Grain Ground Corn, Chicken By-Product Meal, Corn Gluten Meal, Animal Fat, and Ground Whole Grain Wheat.
Pedigree Small Dog Grilled Steak and Vegetable Flavor Dry Dog Food Ingredients
This corn product is ground to a fine flour to make it more digestible and is used to give fuel to your pet. Diamond tests all incoming corn for aflatoxin.
Chicken By-Product Meal is rendered mix of less desirable parts (eg. gizzards, giblets, feet), internal organs (eg. lungs, spleen, liver, heart, kidneys) and bones of a chicken.
Chicken by-products are protein rich like chicken and also it's a natural source of Chondroitin Sulfate and Glucosamine. However, it's an already processed material in dog food manufacturing and makes the food ultra-processed.
Corn Gluten Meal is the principal protein of corn. Despite the name, corn gluten does not contain true gluten which makes it 100% gluten-free indeed.
CGM has over 60% crude protein and good for digestibility.
Preserved with mixed-tocopherols (form of vitamin E).
Starch Meter
According to the guaranteed analysis, Pedigree Small Dog Grilled Steak and Vegetable Flavor Dry Dog Food has 21% protein, 11% fat, 4% fiber, and 12% moisture. If we assume 5% ash, then the starch amount in this dog food is 47%.
We calculated the starch ratio in Pedigree Small Dog Grilled Steak and Vegetable Flavor Dry Dog Food as 47%. Basically, almost half of the food you feed to {your dog} is starch.
Average starch ratio of dry dog foods on inthekibble.com is 38.67% - and that means this Pedigree kibble has more starch ratio than the average.
