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Ci Foods Ci Top Drawer Adult Grain Free: Chicken, Veg & Sweet Potato review

Name: Ci Foods Ci Top Drawer Adult Grain Free: Chicken, Veg & Sweet Potato
Brand: Ci Foods

73.1/100Excellent

WetAdult

Flavour

Three grain-free trays in our Excellent band, with the meat share printed where you can find it. The chicken and turkey trays declare 60% of their bird, and the third is fish from top to bottom. Sweet potato, peas and carrots are the only plants, in small amounts.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Grain-avoiding homes: no cereal on any of the three
Owners who want the animal share up front
A short plant list, with peas, sweet potato and carrots the only vegetables
Poultry fans, with chicken and turkey on the same recipe
Dogs that drink sparingly, since most of every tray is moisture

Worth watching

Fish in all three, through fish oil on the poultry trays
Vegetable oil with no plant named on the chicken and turkey trays
White fish with no species on the salmon tray
Glucosamine and chondroitin at trace level only

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

How this scores

How we score

73.1/100Excellent

Protein and processingExcellent

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueExcellent

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults of every size. Calcium is not declared, so these are best kept to adult dogs; portion each tray to the waistline, as energy differs between them.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

Turkey 74.6
Salmon 73.4
Chicken 73.1

All three Excellent. Typical wet food: Excellent.

All three finish about where a well built wet tray should, the turkey a shade ahead and the salmon held back a touch by its carbohydrate.

What's in it

Chicken60%The named bird, printed up front.
Dried peas, dried sweet potato, dried carrots1.3% eachEqual to 4%, 4% and 10% fresh. A genuinely small plant load.
Dried basil, parsley, sage, mint, rosemaryRosemary is the working one, keeping the fats fresh.
Fish oilPuts fish in a poultry tray.
Vegetable oilThe one entry with no plant named.
FOS, yeast as a source of MOS0.1% eachPrebiotics.
Minerals, high nucleotide yeast extract, seaweed meal0.015% yeast extract
Glucosamine, chondroitin sulphate, cranberry, yucca0.004% down to 0.002%A nod to the joints at trace level.

Vitamins A, D3 and E with zinc and manganese partly as amino acid chelates, plus iron, copper, iodine and selenium, all dosed per kilo.

Fish oil is on the list, so this tray will not carry a strict fish avoidance.

Named ingredients

Chicken (60%), Dried Peas (1.3% equivalent to 4% Peas), Dried Sweet Potato (1.3% equivalent to 4% Sweet Potato), Dried Carrots (1.3% equivalent to 10% Carrots), Dried Basil, Dried Parsley, Dried Sage, Dried Mint, Dried Rosemary, Fish Oil, Vegetable Oil, Fructo-oligosaccharies (Prebiotic FOS; 0.1%), Yeast (as a source of Prebiotic MOS; 0.1%), Minerals, High Nucleotide Yeast Extract (0.015%), Seaweed Meal, Glucosamine (0.004%), Chondroitin Sulphate (0.002%), Cranberry (0.002%), Yucca Schidigera (0.002%).

Against the range

Protein, dry matter: 46.0%; Highest of the three; the others are near 35%.
Fat, dry matter: 22.0%; The leanest tray.
Energy: 99 kcal per 100g; The lightest of the three.

The leanest, highest protein tray, and the only one reading Outstanding on nutritional balance.

Three grain-free trays. The chicken and turkey trays are one recipe with the bird swapped: 60% named meat, then dried peas, sweet potato and carrots declared with their fresh weights. The salmon tray is built differently, 66% fish between salmon and white fish, with its small entries given in milligrams per kilo.

Every added vitamin and mineral is dosed, though the panels differ between the poultry and fish trays. Calcium is not declared on any of the three.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

99.2 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

11.5%

Fat

5.5%

Fibre

1.5%

Ash

Moisture

75%

Dry weight

Protein

46%

Fat

22%

Fibre

Ash

12%

Carbs

14%

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

60%

Added water

24%

Carbs

12.3%

Veg

1.7%

Oils

0.1%

Other

Pricing & size