Complete Nutrition Adult Roasted Chicken, Rice & Vegetable
Dry food · 18 lb bagDog foodScored October 2026
- Flags
- 51 avoid · 4 caution
- Ingredients
- 36all in our library
- Brand grade
- Ctransparency, costs 5 points
- Recalls
- 0linked to this product
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Complete Nutrition Adult Roasted Chicken, Rice & Vegetable
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Scored October 2026 · checkthepanel.com
5 flagged ingredients.
Avoid first. Each flag costs points in the score above; where a flag has an entry behind it, it links to the evidence.
BHA (preservative)
A preservative flagged as a possible carcinogen in animal studies; many brands have dropped it.
Meat and bone meal
An unnamed-mammal protein with high bone content; the least transparent protein you can buy.
Animal fat
Rendered fat from unnamed species, and the ingredient where BHA most often hides.
Natural flavor
An undisclosed blend. Not harmful per se, but it hides what's actually in the recipe.
Artificial colors
Dyes that exist to sell the food to you; your pet does not care what color it is.
Every ingredient, top to bottom.
Listed by weight, so the first few lines are most of the food. Tap any line to see what it is and why it's there.
36 ingredients. 8 of them carry this product's 5 flags and are marked below. The other 28 raised no flag.
Recall record.
This product
None linked
We link recalls by hand from FDA notices. Only a recall linked to this product counts in its score.
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2 FDA recalls on fileThese are recalls of other Pedigree products. Only a recall linked to this product counts in its score.
The brand behind it.
Pedigree
Grocery staple built on corn, unnamed meat and bone meal, BHA-preserved animal fat, and four synthetic dyes.
Relies on ingredients that don't name their source species. Publishes testing or sourcing information. The C grade takes 5 points off this product's score.
Pedigree brand page
Independent testing & contaminants
No independent testing on file.
Third-party lab findings for things that never appear on an ingredient label. This is separate from the score above and does not change it.
We haven't found published third-party lab results (PFAS, heavy metals, phthalates) for this product. That is not a clean bill of health, just an absence of data.
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This page was corrected once.
- Oct 24, 2026 Panel Score 63 → 59: “Unnamed animal ingredients” is now “Meat and bone meal” and “Animal fat”, and “Added colors” is now “Artificial colors”. “Unnamed animal ingredients” was a flag of our own for lines that don't say which animal they come from. We retired it on October 24, 2026 for the entries our library has for those lines, each counted once: “Meat and bone meal” is Meat and bone meal and “Animal fat (source of omega 6 fatty acids, preserved with BHA and citric acid)” is Animal fat. One flag had been standing for two different ingredients. Red 40, Yellow 5, Yellow 6 and Blue 2 are certified dyes, so the color flag takes the name our library gives them.
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