Cesar

Cesar Senior Wet Trays in Jelly: Poultry, Lamb & Beef Chunks review

Name: Cesar Senior Wet Trays in Jelly: Poultry, Lamb & Beef Chunks
Brand: Cesar

47.8/100Average

WetAdultSenior

Soft chunks in jelly for the older dog, four recipes in a box of eight trays. Each names one animal at 4% inside a chunk that fills about half the tray. It is rich for its weight and very easy to eat, and it settles in our Average band because so little of the meat is named.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Seniors whose appetite has faded. Chunks in jelly are about as tempting as wet food gets
Little-and-often feeding, a 150g tray being a meal for a smaller dog
Calories in a small volume, with fat at 28.2% of dry matter
Rotating flavours for a fussy senior: chicken, beef, lamb and turkey in one box
Old dogs that drink too little, as most of the tray is moisture

Worth watching

One animal named at 4% and the rest left as a category, so a diagnosed intolerance cannot be steered by this label
Four different animals in one box, which makes avoiding one meat a sleeve-by-sleeve job
Cereals unnamed beyond the rice

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

How this scores

How we score

47.8/100Average

Protein and processingPoor

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueAverage

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adult and senior dogs of every size. Check the sleeve before serving if your dog has to avoid one particular meat.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult, Senior

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Poultry

The score, in context

Poultry 47.8

All one Average. Typical wet food: Excellent.

Strong on nutritional balance and on what it declares, held back by how little named meat sits inside the chunk.

What's in it

Meat and animal derivatives90% of the chunkCan be any warm-blooded land animal, and can change batch to batch with the list unchanged.
Chicken, beef, lamb or turkey4%One named animal per recipe, inside the derivatives.
Chunk48% to 49% of the trayThe rest is jelly.
Cereals, including rice1.1% dried riceEquivalent to 4% cooked. Easily digested and a fair choice for an old dog.
Vegetables: dried carrots and peas, or dried peas0.8% or 1.2% driedOn the beef and lamb recipes only.
Derivatives of vegetable origin
Minerals

Vitamin D3, vitamin E, copper, iodine, iron, manganese and zinc, each with a printed dose.

Cassia gum at 1661 mg per kilo sets the jelly; drawn from senna seed, it is the entry a careful owner will want to know about.

Named ingredients

Meat and Animal Derivatives (in the Chunk* 90%, including Chicken 4%), Cereals (including Rice 1.1%, equivalent to cooked Rice 4%), Derivatives of Vegetable origin, Minerals, 96% natural, Chunk typically 49% of the product, Meat and Animal Derivatives (in the Chunk* 90%, including Beef 4%), Cereals, Vegetables (including a mix of Dried Carrots and Peas 0.8%, equivalent to Carrots and Peas mix 4.5%), Derivatives Vegetable origin, Minerals, 92% natural, Chunk typically 48% of the product, Meat and Animal Derivatives (in the Chunk* 90%, including Lamb 4%), Cereals, Vegetables (including Dried Peas 1.2%, equivalent to 4%), Derivatives of Vegetable origin, Minerals, 92% natural, Chunk typically 48.5% of the product, Meat and Animal Derivatives (in the Chunk* 90%, including Turkey 4%), Cereals (including Rice 1.1%, equivalent to Cooked Rice 4%), Derivatives of Vegetable origin, Minerals, * 93% natural, Chunk typically 49% of the product

Against the range

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

93 kcal/100g

Protein

8.5%

Fat

5.5%

Fibre

0.5%

Ash

1.6%

Moisture

80.5%

Dry weight

Protein

43.6%

Fat

28.2%

Fibre

2.6%

Ash

8.2%

Carbs

17.4%

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.

Other

100%

Pricing & size