Pedigree Tender Bites for Small Dogs Chicken & Steak Flavor Dry Dog Food
Top 5 ingredients of Pedigree Tender Bites for Small Dogs Chicken & Steak Flavor Dry Dog Food are Whole Grain Ground Corn, Chicken By-Product Meal, Corn Gluten Meal, Animal Fat, and Soybean Meal.
Pedigree Tender Bites for Small Dogs Chicken & Steak Flavor Dry Dog Food Ingredients
This provides easily digestible carbohydrates.
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).
Is a high quality protein ingredient, though obviously less ideal than meat. Some critics contend that this kind of bean may cause allergic issues in canines, though opinions vary widely.
Starch Meter
According to the guaranteed analysis, Pedigree Tender Bites for Small Dogs Chicken & Steak 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 Tender Bites for Small Dogs Chicken & Steak 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.
