Pedigree Puppy Chicken & Vegetable Flavor Dry Dog Food

Top 4 ingredients of Pedigree Puppy Chicken & Vegetable Flavor Dry Dog Food are Whole Grain Ground Corn, Chicken By-Product Meal, Corn Gluten Meal, and Soybean Meal.

Guaranteed Analysis

Crude Protein (min.): 27%

Crude Fat (min.): 11%

Crude Fiber (max.): 4%

Moisture (max.): 12%

Calories: 3,494 kcal/kg, 298 kcal/cup

Pedigree Puppy Chicken & Vegetable Flavor Dry Dog Food Ingredients

Ground Whole Grain Corn, Chicken By-Product Meal, Corn Gluten Meal, Soybean Meal, Meat And Bone Meal (Source Of Calcium), Animal Fat (Source Of Omega 6 Fatty Acids [preserved with Bha And Citric Acid]), Ground Whole Grain Wheat, Brewers Rice, Natural Flavor, Salt, Monocalcium Phosphate, Fish Oil (Preserved with Mixed Tocopherols), Brewers Yeast, Calcium Carbonate, Potassium Chloride, Choline Chloride, Dried Peas, Vitamin E Supplement, Zinc Sulfate, Bha And Citric Acid (A Preservative), Niacin, Yellow 5, Yellow 6, Dried Carrots, Blue 2, Red 40, D-calcium Pantothenate, Copper Sulfate, Riboflavin Supplement (Vitamin B2), Sodium Selenite, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride (Vitamin B6), Potassium Iodide, Vitamin A Supplement, Thiamine Mononitrate (Vitamin B1), Folic Acid, Biotin, Vitamin D3 Supplement, Vitamin B12 Supplement

We specified the salt's position and marked it to help you evaluate the ingredients better with The Salt Divider.

Chicken by-products meal as a dog food ingredient

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.

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 Puppy Chicken & Vegetable Flavor Dry Dog Food has 27% protein, 11% fat, 4% fiber, and 12% moisture. If we assume 5% ash, then the starch amount in this dog food is 41%.

The largest proportion of Carbohydrates in dog food is provided by starch and indeed dogs don't have carbohydrate requirement at all.

We calculated the starch ratio in Pedigree Puppy Chicken & Vegetable Flavor Dry Dog Food as 41%. Basically, around two fifth (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.

Protein (27%)

Starch (41 %)

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