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Ci Foods Ci Tender Tums: Chicken & Rice review

Name: Ci Foods Ci Tender Tums: Chicken & Rice
Brand: Ci Foods

49.8/100Average

DryAdult

A gentle, low-fat kibble for adult dogs with easily upset stomachs, sitting in our Average band. Poultry meal and rice lead at 26% each, with beet pulp for steady fibre. The score reflects unnamed meat and a lot of cereal, and nothing alarming behind either.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Adults with touchy digestion, the dog this recipe is shaped around
Dogs that hold weight too easily. Fat is capped at 8%
Owners who want familiar cereals: rice, then barley and oats
Mixed-size households, with guidance from toy breeds to the biggest dogs

Worth watching

Poultry meal never names the bird, so a strict elimination diet cannot rule chicken in or out
Fish meal sits alongside the poultry
Estimated carbohydrate is 55.4% of dry matter, against 46.2% typical of adult dry food

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

How this scores

How we score

49.8/100Average

Protein and processingAverage

Nutritional balanceAverage

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueAverage

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults of every size. If your dog has to avoid one particular bird or fish, ask Ci what the poultry and fish meals are before ordering.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

The score, in context

Chicken 49.8

All one Average. Typical dry food: Good.

Unnamed poultry and a starch-led build explain the placing, and none of it is a warning for the dog this food is meant for.

What's in it

Poultry meal26%Dried and concentrated, so it carries more protein than fresh meat. The bird is not named and may change between batches.
Rice26%Leads the cereals.
Barley, oatsGentle once cooked.
Poultry fat
Sugar beet pulpThe fibre workhorse, soluble and insoluble, for stool quality.
Fish mealA dense protein, and it means fish as well as poultry.
Brewers yeast, minerals, vitamins
Yucca schidigera extract190mg/kgUsually there to take the edge off wind and stool odour.

Every trace mineral has a printed dose, iron and zinc at 50 mg each per kilo among them, with biotin at 145 mcg for skin and coat.

Sold as Chicken & Rice, but the ingredients only ever say poultry.

Named ingredients

Poultry Meal (26%), Rice (26%), Barley, Oats, Poultry Fat, Sugar Beet Pulp, Fish Meal, Brewers Yeast, Minerals, Vitamins,Yucca Schidigera Extract 190mg/kg).

Against the range

One low-fat rice and poultry kibble for adults with touchy stomachs, sold as Chicken & Rice though the label only ever says poultry.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

348 kcal/100g

Protein

24%

Fat

Fibre

3.5%

Ash

5.5%

Moisture

Dry weight

Protein

26.1%

Fat

8.7%

Fibre

3.8%

Ash

Carbs

55.4%

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.

Meat

29.5%

Carbs

63.7%

Oils

4.1%

Other

2.7%

Pricing & size

Price per kilo: £3.17 (RRP)
Pack: 2kg Trial Bag, 4 x 2kg (same variety), 4 x 2kg (mixed varieties), 12kg Sack
A 15kg dog eats: 180 to 290 g a day, 235 in the middle
Cost per day, 15kg dog: £0.74

Fed to the table on the bag, a 15 kg adult eats 180 to 290 grams a day.

Budget end of the market for a dry food, with the price running a little ahead of what the analysis shows.

Ingredients and nutrition are taken from manufacturer data. Retailer pricing is not yet live for this food.