Cesar

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

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

50.6/100Good

WetAdult

Chunks in a light sauce, four recipes to a box, each naming one animal at 4%. Nearly half the pouch is chunk and the sauce makes up the rest. It sits in our Good band, held there by how little named meat is in the chunk, nothing a dog would object to at dinner.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Dogs who like a saucy dinner more than a set jelly
One small dog: a 100g pouch is a single serving with nothing left over
A settled routine bought in bulk, with the same four recipes in small and large boxes
Dogs who rarely visit the water bowl
Dogs who struggle to hold weight, with fat at 27.7% of dry matter

Worth watching

One named animal at 4%; the rest is meat and animal derivatives, so no elimination diet
Turkey, lamb, chicken and beef in one box
Cereals and vegetable derivatives are not named, so the recipe can change while the pack does not
Light at 91 kcal per 100g, so a bigger dog works through a lot of pouches

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 adults of every size. The label puts a 15kg dog at 800 to 900 grams a day, which is eight to nine pouches, so it 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.

The analysis reads calmer than the short label suggests; 4% of named meat is what pulls it down.

What's in it

Meat and animal derivatives84% or 89% of the chunkCan cover any part of any warm-blooded land animal, and can change between batches.
Turkey, chicken, lamb or beef4%One named animal per recipe, inside the derivatives.
CerealsGrain not named.
Derivatives of vegetable origin
Dried carrots, peas, or carrot and pea mix0.6% to 1.2%, equivalent to 4%Rehydrated, these make up 4% of the recipe.
Tomato powder0.2%Turkey sauce only.
Minerals

Vitamins D3 and E with copper, iodine, iron, manganese and zinc, all dosed, and no thickener declared.

Four recipes and four animals in one box, so a dog avoiding one of them cannot eat the whole box.

Named ingredients

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

Against the range

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