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Cesar Creations Pouches in Jelly: Poultry, Beef & Lamb review

Name: Cesar Creations Pouches in Jelly: Poultry, Beef & Lamb
Brand: Cesar

50.6/100Good

WetAdult

Small chunks in jelly in 100g pouches, four recipes to the box, and it lands in our Good band. Each names one animal at 4% and leaves the rest of the meat behind a category term. That, more than the meal itself, is what holds the score: protein still converts to 41.0% of dry matter.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Dogs that eat better from chunks in jelly than from a loaf
Toy and small dogs. One 100g pouch is a meal with nothing to cover afterwards
Changing the meat between meals, with four animals in one box
Dogs that could drink more, since most of the pouch is moisture
A richer wet bowl, with fat at 27.7% of dry matter

Worth watching

A pouch labelled turkey still carries animal content from somewhere unstated
Four animals across one box, so a household avoiding beef or poultry chooses sleeve by sleeve
Cassia gum at 1901 mg per kilo to set the jelly
Cereals and vegetable derivatives unnamed

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

How this scores

How we score

50.6/100Good

Protein and processingPoor

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adult dogs of every size. The label's guide puts a 15kg dog at 800 to 900 grams a day, which is 8 to 9 pouches, so the format suits small dogs best.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Poultry

The score, in context

Poultry 50.6

All one Good. Typical wet food: Excellent.

Well short of the typical adult wet food, and almost all of the gap is how little of the meat is named.

What's in it

Meat and animal derivatives, in the chunk84% to 89%A labelling category for any warm-blooded land animal and any part of one. The mix can change between batches.
Turkey, lamb, beef or chicken4%The only meat you can actually point at.
CerealsNo grain named.
Dried carrots, dried carrot and pea mix, dried peas0.6% to 1.2%, equivalent to 4%Seasoning at these levels.
Tomato powder0.2%Turkey recipe only.
Derivatives of vegetable origin
Minerals

Vitamins D3 and E with copper, iodine, iron, manganese and zinc, each dosed per kilo, plus cassia gum as the gelling agent.

Cassia gum, from senna seed, is the entry a cautious owner is most likely to want flagged.

Named ingredients

With turkey and carrots in tomato jelly Composition: meat and animal derivatives (in the chunk* 89%, including turkey 4%), cereals, vegetables (including dried carrots 0.6%, equivalent to carrots 4%, tomato powder 0.2%), derivatives of vegetable origin, minerals. * 96% natural, chunk typically 46% of the product. With lamb and vegetables Composition: meat and animal derivatives (in the chunk* 84%, including lamb 4%), cereals, vegetables (including dried carrot and pea mix 0.8%, equivalent to carrot and pea mix 4%), derivatives of vegetable origin, minerals. * 94% natural, chunk typically 46% of the product. With beef and carrots Composition: meat and animal derivatives (in the chunk* 84%, including beef 4%), cereals, vegetables (including dried carrots 0.6%, equivalent to carrots 4%), derivatives of vegetable origin, minerals. * 94% natural, chunk typically 46% of the product. With chicken and peas Composition: meat and animal derivatives (in the chunk* 89%, including chicken 4%), cereals, vegetables (including dried peas 1.2%, equivalent to peas 4%), derivatives of vegetable origin, minerals. * 96% natural, chunk typically 46% of the product.

Against the range

Four recipes to a box, built the same way: a chunk that is typically 46% of the pouch, set in jelly. Inside the chunk, meat and animal derivatives run to 84% or 89%, with turkey, lamb, beef or chicken named at 4%.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

91 kcal/100g

Protein

Fat

5.4%

Fibre

0.5%

Ash

1.9%

Moisture

80.5%

Dry weight

Protein

41%

Fat

27.7%

Fibre

2.6%

Ash

9.7%

Carbs

19%

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

24.5%

Other

75.5%

Pricing & size