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Pedigree Chopped Ground Dinner Variety Pack Featuring Bacon Adult Wet Dog Food, 3.5-oz pouch, case of 8
Pedigree

Chopped Ground Dinner Variety Pack Featuring Bacon Adult Wet Dog Food, 3.5-oz pouch, case of 8

Evidence Fair
AAFCO compliance inferred from product name
wet $7.99

Pedigree Chopped Ground Dinner Variety Pack Featuring Bacon Adult Wet Dog Food, 3.5-oz pouch, case of 8 earns a Sniff Score of 22/100 (F) with Fair evidence. 4 controversial ingredients flagged. Score capped at 49 due to sodium nitrite.

Graded by The Sniff System

Why this score

Reasonable protein quality. beef bacon cheese: ingredients: chicken delivers solid amino acid coverage.

PQI

Quality carbohydrate sources with fermentable fiber.

CQI

AAFCO formulation inferred from declared adult maintenance. Verbatim statement not published by retailer.

ACF

Score capped at 49 due to sodium nitrite.

CAP why?

Score capped at 64 due to 3 WATCH ingredients.

CAP why?

Contains sodium nitrite. Documented canine death (Worth 2005); IARC 2A nitrosamine pathway. Unnecessary in dog food (no botulism niche)..

CIP

Controversial ingredients · 2

  • meat by-products
    Unspecified species. AAFCO definition allows organs, blood, bone — but the lack of a named source means quality and consistency are not auditable.
  • carrageenan
    Seaweed-derived thickener; some studies link it to gastrointestinal inflammation. Most common in wet foods but appears in some kibble gravies.

Every flagged ingredient has a published basis (confirmed harm / regulatory action / precautionary). See methodology →

Guaranteed analysis
Protein
8%
min
Fat
6%
min
Fiber
1%
max
Moisture
78%
max
Ingredients
41 total
  1. 1 beef bacon cheese: ingredients: chicken
  2. 2 sufficient water for processing
  3. 3 meat by-products ⚠ Unspecified species. AAFCO definition allows organs, blood, bone — but the lack of a named source means quality and consistency are not auditable.
  4. 4 beef
  5. 5 dried plain beet pulp
  6. 6 potassium chloride
  7. 7 calcium carbonate
  8. 8 sodium tripolyphosphate
  9. 9 cassia gum
  10. 10 carrageenan ⚠ Seaweed-derived thickener; some studies link it to gastrointestinal inflammation. Most common in wet foods but appears in some kibble gravies.
  11. 11 guar gum
  12. 12 magnesium oxide
  13. 13 zinc oxide
  14. 14 copper sulfate
  15. 15 calcium iodate
  16. 16 choline chloride
  17. 17 natural bacon flavor
  18. 18 natural cheese flavor
  19. 19 xanthan gum
  20. 20 added color
  21. 21 sodium nitrite . bacon and filet mignon flavor: ingredients: chicken
  22. 22 sufficient water for processing
  23. 23 meat by-products ⚠ Unspecified species. AAFCO definition allows organs, blood, bone — but the lack of a named source means quality and consistency are not auditable.
  24. 24 beef
  25. 25 dried plain beet pulp

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