Cesar Classic Terrine Trays in Jelly: Beef & Poultry in Jelly review

1. Beef 46.8
2. Chicken 46.8
3. Lamb 46.3
4. Junior Poultry in Jelly 45.0
5. Rich in Chicken in Jelly 44.7
6. Beef 43.3

All six Average. Typical wet food: Excellent.

All six score close together, held back by how little the label declares and not by anything worrying in the tray.

• Meat and animal derivatives63%Beef at 14% and poultry at 4% here; four flavour variations share the one label.
• Cereals
• Derivatives of vegetable origin
• Minerals

Vitamin D3, vitamin E and five trace minerals, each with a figure per kilo, plus cassia gum to set the jelly.

Poultry at 4% names no bird.

Meat and animal derivatives

63%

60% on the 300g trays, 62% on the Junior.

Protein, dry matter

50.0%

47.5% to 53.9% across the range.

Flavours on one label

Four

One or two elsewhere.

The mixed box, with one shared analysis across four flavours.

Every tray is written in category language: meat and animal derivatives at 60% to 63%, then cereals, derivatives of vegetable origin and minerals. Any of these can change between batches while the label stays the same. The fixed points are the named animals, one at 14% and sometimes a second at 4%.

Protein converts to between 47.5% and 53.9% of dry matter and the carbohydrate estimate runs from 4.1% to 13.5%, under the wet-food norm throughout. Cassia gum sets the jelly. The Junior tray adds fish and fish derivatives.

Price per kilo

£7.87 (RRP)

Pack

24x150g, 8x150g

A 15kg dog eats

790 to 865 g a day, 825 in the middle

Cost per day, 15kg dog

£6.49

Middle of the market for a wet food, and a little more than the analysis alone would justify.