Cesar

Cesar Fresh Bowl: Chicken in Gravy review

Name: Cesar Fresh Bowl: Chicken in Gravy
Brand: Cesar

79/100Excellent

WetAdult

Flavour

This is the Cesar label that names the cut: chicken fillet at 24% and chicken breast at 11% head every bowl. The vegetables come with percentages too, which is rare at this end of the shelf. The recipes are lean, and the catch is the derivatives heading the chicken sits inside.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Owners who want the cut named on the label
Dogs that need a leaner dinner, with fat at 14.6% of dry matter
Loose digestion. Fibre converts to 7.3% of dry matter
A small dog, where one 85g bowl with its own lid is a serving
Anyone who likes the vegetables spelled out, from fresh pumpkin and green beans to carrots and sweet potatoes

Worth watching

Chicken leads every bowl, the duck one included, so a dog avoiding chicken has no option in this range
Unidentified animal content under the meat and animal derivatives heading, and oils and fats with no source
A medium or large dog needs a stack of bowls a day at 79 kcal per 100g

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

How this scores

How we score

79/100Excellent

Protein and processingExcellent

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyGood

ValueExcellent

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adult dogs of every size. Work out how many bowls your dog would need each day before you order, since these are light.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

Chicken in Gravy 79.0
Chicken 75.0
Duck in Gravy 73.1

All three Excellent. Typical wet food: Excellent.

Three bowls with one analysis finish close together, so the choice comes down to which vegetables and grain suit your dog.

What's in it

Meat and animal derivatives: chicken fillet, chicken breast24%, 11%Better than a third of the bowl, in named cuts. The rest of the heading is unidentified.
Fresh carrots9%Vitamin A.
Fresh green beans, fresh pumpkin7%, 6%Gentle fibre.
Derivatives of vegetable origin
Oils and fatsUnsourced, the one line an elimination diet cannot work around.
Minerals

Vitamin D3 with copper, iodine, iron, manganese and zinc, mostly as sulphates.

Named ingredients

Meat and Animal Derivatives* (Chicken Fillet 24% and Chicken Breast 11%), Vegetables* (Fresh Carrots 9%, Fresh Green Beans 7% and Fresh Pumpkin 6%), Derivatives of Vegetable Origin, Oils and Fats, Minerals, *Natural Ingredients

Against the range

Grain: None; Red rice or barley on the other two.
Vegetables: Carrots 9%, green beans 7%, pumpkin 6%; Sweet potato or purple potato on the others.
Other animals on the label: Chicken only by name; The duck bowl adds duck fillet.

The simplest bowl here and the one for a dog kept off grain.

Every bowl declares chicken fillet and chicken breast inside a meat and animal derivatives entry, so the named cuts are pinned down but the rest of that heading is not. The vegetables carry their own percentages, and the grain, where there is one, is red rice or barley in small named amounts.

All three share one declared analysis: protein converts to 48.8% of dry matter and fat to 14.6%. Oils and fats appears on every label without a source. What changes from bowl to bowl is the vegetables, the grain and, on the duck recipe, a small share of duck fillet.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

79 kcal/100g

Protein

10%

Fat

Fibre

1.5%

Ash

1.3%

Moisture

79.5%

Dry weight

Protein

48.8%

Fat

14.6%

Fibre

7.3%

Ash

6.3%

Carbs

23%

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

44.3%

Added water

14.5%

Carbs

15.9%

Veg

15.9%

Oils

4.8%

Other

4.6%