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PEDIGREE® Dry Dog Food Adult Grilled Steak & Vegetable Flavor
A dry food that's denser than 11% (you feed fewer cups). We don't have a cost per day for this food yet.
THE FACTS, ONE SENTENCE — data as JSON · reference dog 40 lb · updated 2026-07-11
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 2026-07-11
Composition — dry-matter basis
why dry matter
Calories & cost — for your 40-lb adult dog
No cost per 1,000 kcal yet: we haven't matched this food to a current Amazon listing. Serving math uses standard veterinary energy formulas — see the formula.
Standards & ingredients
what this means
why unknown
Safety
Source: official label source (official) · 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.
The source material
The full ingredient list
Every flag above is computed from this list. Why order is by pre-cooking weight, and how splitting bends it →
Whole Grain Corn, Meat and Bone Meal, Soybean Meal, Animal Fat (Preserved with BHA and Citric Acid), Whole Grain Wheat, Corn Protein Meal, Natural Flavor, Dried Plain Beet Pulp, Salt, Potassium Chloride, Choline Chloride, DL-Methionine, Calcium Carbonate, Dried Peas, Minerals (Zinc Sulfate, Copper Sulfate, Sodium Selenite, Potassium Iodide), Vitamins (Vitamin E Supplement, Niacin Supplement, Vitamin B5 [Calcium Pantothenate], Vitamin C [L-Ascorbyl-2-Polyphosphate], Vitamin A Supplement, Vitamin B2 [Riboflavin], Vitamin B12 Supplement, Vitamin B1 [Thiamine Mononitrate], Vitamin D3 Supplement, Vitamin B6 [Pyridoxine Hydrochloride], Biotin, Vitamin B9 [Folic Acid]), Natural Grilled Steak Flavor, L-Tryptophan, Dried Carrots, BHT (Preservative), BHA (Preservative), Red 40, Yellow 6, Citric Acid (Preservative), Blue 2, Yellow 5.
5 ingredients in this list are ones we hold sourced evidence on , and 2 of them are genuinely contested rather than merely unpopular online.
- BHA (butylated hydroxyanisole) · ingredient 4ContestedA synthetic antioxidant that slows fat oxidation (rancidity) in dry and fatty pet foods. Regulators permit it: EFSA judged BHA safe for most animal species up to 150 mg/kg complete feed, though it could not set a safe level for cats due to insufficient data.
- Peas · ingredient 14ContestedA pulse (legume) used in many grain-free foods as a plant protein and carbohydrate source. Peas are central to an open FDA investigation, begun in July 2018, into a possible link between diets high in peas, other pulses, and potatoes and canine dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM); 93% of reported products contained peas and/or lentils.
- Beet Pulp · ingredient 8Well supportedThe fibrous material left after sugar is extracted from sugar beets, included as a moderately fermentable fiber source (commonly around 5 to 7.5% of the diet). Controlled feeding studies show it supports firm, good-quality stools and short-chain fatty acid production without impairing overall nutrient digestibility, so the 'cheap filler' characterization is not supported by the evidence.
- Meat and Bone Meal · ingredient 2NeutralA rendered concentrate of mammal tissue that also includes bone, giving it high mineral/ash content and lower crude protein (roughly 39-46%) than clean meat meals. Amino-acid availability varies substantially with rendering temperature and pressure — studies show good digestibility is achievable but not guaranteed across processing methods.
- BHT (butylated hydroxytoluene) · ingredient 20NeutralA synthetic antioxidant used to keep fats from going rancid. EFSA considers BHT an efficacious antioxidant and found it safe for the animal species with adequate data at up to 150 mg/kg complete feed, with consumer exposure well below the acceptable daily intake; for some species a conclusion could not be drawn only because data were lacking, not because harm was shown.
Nutritional twins
Priced close matches
This food has no verified price yet — these are the closest label matches that do.
Label-composition matches only: same species, form, and growth stage; same primary protein where both are known; grain-free preserved; protein within 4 points and fat within 4 points, and estimated carbs within 8 points, on a dry-matter basis. Not a medical or quality recommendation.
The maker
Who makes this — and how they back it up
The five questions the WSAVA nutrition guidelines tell you to ask a pet-food company. Every answer is sourced or marked as an undisclosed gap — never guessed. This is the "is it made competently?" axis that star-rating sites skip.
Mars Petcare owns/operates the Mattoon plant that produces Pedigree; Mars operates 14+ owned US plants.
source →Official brand FAQ explicitly states PhD nutritionists on staff; also states formulators include 'PhD/MS animal nutritionists, as well as PhD/MS food scientists.' No individual named, but credential class (PhD nutritionist) is stated. Backed by Mars' Waltham Petcare Science Institute.
source →No feeding-trial AAFCO statement found on the 70 labels we’ve verified for this brand, and no company-wide claim was found either. Most pet foods are only "formulated to meet" AAFCO profiles (a paper calculation) rather than fed to real animals in trials — this is common, not necessarily a red flag.
covers: finished-product testing, toxicological review of ingredients. Pedigree FAQ answering WSAVA's QC question.
source →666 PubMed papers (animal/pet filtered) list Waltham Petcare Science Institute (Mars Petcare) in an author address; we checked 200 and 200 really name the company. A floor, not a total.
source →Full company scorecard, sources, and every SKU we've verified for this brand: Pedigree brand page →