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PEDIGREE PUPPY™ Growth & Protection Dry Dog Food Chicken & Vegetable Flavor
A dry food that's denser than 5% (you feed fewer cups). Cost-per-day isn't available yet — this SKU isn't price-matched.
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
Cost per 1,000 kcal not available yet — this SKU isn't price-matched to a current retail 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 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, Chicken By-Product Meal, Ground Whole Grain Wheat, Soybean Meal, Meat and Bone Meal, Animal Fat (source of Omega 6 Fatty Acids [preserved with BHA and Citric Acid]), Brewers Rice, Natural Flavor (source of Chicken Flavor), Corn Gluten Meal, Salt, Monocalcium Phosphate, Fish Oil ([source of DHA] preserved with Mixed Tocopherols), Brewers Dried Yeast, Potassium Chloride, Calcium Carbonate, Choline Chloride, DL-Methionine, Dried Peas, Zinc Sulfate, L-Tryptophan, Vitamin E Supplement, Yellow 5, Yellow 6, Blue 2, Dried Carrots, Copper Sulfate, Red 40, Niacin Supplement, Sodium Selenite, Potassium Iodide, D-Calcium Pantothenate, Vitamin A Supplement, Riboflavin Supplement (Vitamin B2), Vitamin B12 Supplement, Thiamine Mononitrate (Vitamin B1), Vitamin D3 Supplement, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride (Vitamin B6), Folic Acid
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 four 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.
658 PubMed-indexed papers carry "Waltham Petcare Science Institute (Mars)" in an author affiliation (animal/pet-domain filtered) — a reproducible floor, not a total.
source →Full company scorecard, sources, and every SKU we've verified for this brand: Pedigree brand page →