Cesar

Cesar Complete Dry: With Chicken, Salmon and Vegetables review

Name: Cesar Complete Dry: With Chicken, Salmon and Vegetables
Brand: Cesar

36.4/100Average

DryAdult

Flavour

A small-dog kibble from a brand best known for its trays, mixing crunchy and semi-moist pieces in one bag. Both recipes sit in our Average band, held there by how little named meat the label carries. For the small companion dogs it is aimed at, it is an easy, palatable everyday food.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Toy and small dogs, the guide running from 2kg to 10kg
Dogs that tire of a uniform biscuit: crunchy triangles mixed with soft squares
Light eaters who take weeks over a bag
Moving on from trays to a dry food from a name your dog knows

Worth watching

Only a 4% fresh share named, so no use for an elimination diet
Wholegrain wheat as the biggest ingredient
Colourants among the additives, doing nothing for the dog

Written by our editorial team. Independent guidance, not veterinary advice.

How this scores

How we score

36.4/100Average

Protein and processingPoor

Nutritional balanceAverage

TransparencyExcellent

ValueAverage

The details

Dog fit

Written for small adult dogs, with the feeding guide topping out at 10kg. Check your dog is fine on wheat first, as it is at least 40% of the bag.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

With Beef 36.6
With Chicken 36.4

All two Average. Typical dry food: Good.

Both sit where they do because the label shows so little named meat, which is a comment on what a reader can see, not a red flag.

What's in it

Cereals (wholegrain wheat, rice)min. 40% wheat, 4% riceRice sits in the triangular kibbles.
Meat and animal derivatives30%Fresh chicken 4% in the squares; the rest unnamed.
Oils and fats (including fish oil)0.2% fish oilMostly unnamed.
Derivatives of vegetable origin (including sugar beet pulp)3% beet pulpThe fibre.
Fish and fish derivatives (including salmon)4% salmonIn the triangular kibbles.
Vegetables: dried carrots, dried peas, dried tomatoes0.5%, 1%, 0.2%Equivalent to 4% each fresh, in the circular kibbles.
Minerals, yeast (brewer's yeast), herbs (Herbes de Provence)0.2%, 0.3%

Vitamins D3 and E and a full trace mineral line in sulphate form, alongside antioxidants, preservatives and colourants that are there for the owner's eye.

Salmon in the triangles, so this one is not fish free beyond the fish oil.

Named ingredients

Cereals* (including Rice 4% in the Triangular Kibbles, Wholegrain Wheat* minimum 40%), Meat and Animal Derivatives (30%, including Fresh Chicken* 4% in the Square Kibbles), Oils and Fats (including Fish Oil 0.2%), Derivatives of Vegetable Origin (including Sugar Beet Pulp* 3%), Fish and Fish Derivatives (including Salmon 4% in the Triangular Kibbles), Minerals, Vegetables* (including Dried Carrots 0.5%, equivalent to Carrots 4%, Dried Peas 1%, equivalent to Peas 4%, and Dried Tomatoes 0.2%, equivalent to Tomatoes 4% in the Circular Kibbles), Yeast (including Brewer's Yeast 0.2%), Herbs (including Herbs de Provence 0.3%), *Natural Ingredients, Brown Triangular Kibble typically 65% of product, Square Brown Semi-Moist Kibble typically 15% of product, Orange and Green Circular Kibbles each typically 10% of product, * Wholegrains

Against the range

Named meats: Chicken and salmon, 4% each; Beef and chicken in the other.
Extra in the triangles: Rice 4%; Lentils 4% in the other.
Bag sizes: 1.4kg and 7kg; The beef comes in 1.4kg only.

The one to pick for a household that wants the bigger bag.

Both bags mix textures: typically 65% crunchy triangles, 15% soft semi-moist squares and two lots of 10% coloured circles. Wholegrain wheat leads at a minimum of 40%, and the meat sits under meat and animal derivatives with a 4% fresh share named in each kibble shape. Fish oil at 0.2%, beet pulp at 3% and a few dried vegetables complete the list, and the analysis is identical on the pair.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

368 kcal/100g

Protein

25%

Fat

12%

Fibre

Ash

7.2%

Moisture

Dry weight

Protein

27.5%

Fat

13.2%

Fibre

2.2%

Ash

7.9%

Carbs

49.2%

As-fed composition

Estimated breakdown of the finished product by ingredient category, from the declared ingredient list and ingoing weights. These are estimates, not measurements.

Meat

25%

Other

75%

Pricing & size