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PEDIGREE® Complete Nutrition Dry Dog Food Adult Roasted Chicken, Rice & Vegetable Flavor

Dry food · adult dogs

A dry food that's cheaper per calorie than 100% of the dry foods we've priced and denser than 9% (you feed fewer cups) — $0.60 a day for your 40-lb adult dog.

THE FACTS, ONE SENTENCE — data as JSON · reference dog 40 lb · updated 2026-07-11

Your dogupdates every number on this page
40 lb

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The evidence

The Verified Label

Every food on this site gets this exact panel — same fields, same order, sourced from the official label — so brands finally become comparable. Dots show where this food sits among all 494 dry foods we've verified.

Verified LabelThe standardized pet-food panel
VPFD № PEDIGR
verified 2026-07-11

Composition — dry-matter basis

why dry matter
Moisture hides the real recipe: kibble is ~10% water, canned food ~78%. Removing water puts every food on one scale, so these are the only nutrition numbers that can be compared across foods. As-fed label values shown small.
Protein 23.9%label: 21% min lower than 92% of dry foods
Fat 11.4%label: 10% min lower than 90% of dry foods
Fiber 4.5%label: 4% max typical — the median dry food is 5.4%
Est. carbohydrates ash not disclosed → 8% assumed, so this is an estimate ≈51.1%computed anchor available once more brands disclose ash
Calcium / Phosphorus extended guarantees: Ca 1% · P 0.8% 1.25 : 1ratio, as fed within the AAFCO adult range (1:1 – 2:1)

Calories & cost — for your 40-lb adult dog

Calorie density 314 kcal/cup3406 kcal/kg lighter than 91% of dry foods (median 388) — you feed more cups
Daily serving3¼ cups
Cost per day$0.60
18-lb bag lasts28 days

Cost per 1,000 kcal: $0.61 — cheaper than 100% of the 360 dry foods we've priced (median $1.93). Serving math uses standard veterinary energy formulas — see the formula.

Standards & ingredients

AAFCO statement
what this means
Two kinds of AAFCO claims exist. Most foods are only "formulated to meet" nutrient profiles — a paper calculation. A smaller set carry the stronger claim: fed to real dogs in AAFCO-procedure trials ("Animal feeding tests using AAFCO procedures substantiate…").
 Not found on label
First five ingredients (by pre-cooking weight)Ground Whole Grain Corn · Meat And Bone Meal · Soybean Meal · Animal Fat (source of Omega 6 Fatty Acids [preserved with BHA & Citric Acid]) · Corn Gluten Meal
Named animal protein first; named meals onlyNo
Legumes in first 10 (FDA DCM inquiry)1 (soybean meal)
BHA / BHT preservativesYes — see ingredient list
Carrageenan (thickener)None
Ethoxyquin
why unknown
When a fish-meal supplier adds ethoxyquin, U.S. rules don't require it on the finished label — so no label can prove its absence for recipes containing fish meal. We report this as a gap rather than guessing.
 None — no fish meal in this recipe

Safety

FDA recalls — Pedigree, since 20232 on record — see recall history
ManufacturerNot confirmed from label
Label transparency 8 of 15 standard fields
Green = verified favorable · amber = gap in the record · red = verified unfavorable · gray = not disclosed / neutral fact.
Source: official label source (official)· price: Amazon, 2026-07-11 · anchors: 494 verified dry dog foods (360 priced) · how to read this label

The fit

For your dog, specifically

Checked for a 40-lb adult with a sensitive stomach — the same published criteria our finder uses. Change your dog above and these update.

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Life-stage coverage not disclosedNo AAFCO nutrient-adequacy statement was found on the label for this SKU, so we cannot confirm adult-maintenance coverage.
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Does not pass our sensitive-stomach checksDoes not lead with a named animal protein. Contains an unnamed by-product. See sensitive-stomach qualifiers →
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Contains chickenNot selected as a concern for your dog — shown here for reference.

The source material

The full ingredient list

Every flag on the Verified Label is computed from this list. Ingredients are ordered by pre-cooking weight — the first five carry the most information.

Ground Whole Grain Corn, Meat And Bone Meal, Soybean Meal, Animal Fat (source of Omega 6 Fatty Acids [preserved with BHA & Citric Acid]), Corn Gluten Meal, Natural Flavor (source of Roasted Chicken Flavor), Dried Plain Beet Pulp, Chicken By-Product Meal, Salt, Ground Whole Grain Wheat, Brewers Rice, Potassium Chloride, Calcium Carbonate, Choline Chloride, Dried Peas, DL-Methionine, Zinc Sulfate, Yellow 6, Monocalcium Phosphate, Vitamin E Supplement, Yellow 5, L-Tryptophan, Blue 2, Dried Carrots, Red 40, Niacin Supplement (Vitamin B3), Copper Sulfate, Sodium Selenite, Potassium Iodide, D-Calcium Pantothenate (source of Vitamin B5), Vitamin A Supplement, Riboflavin Supplement (Vitamin B2), Vitamin B12 Supplement, Thiamine Mononitrate (Vitamin B1), Vitamin D3 Supplement, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride (Vitamin B6), Folic