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Ci Foods Ci Top Drawer Adult Grain Free: Salmon, Ocean Fish & Sweet Potato review

Name: Ci Foods Ci Top Drawer Adult Grain Free: Salmon, Ocean Fish & Sweet Potato
Brand: Ci Foods

73.4/100Excellent

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

73.4/100Excellent

Protein and processingExcellent

Nutritional balanceExcellent

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

Fish

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

Salmon40%
White fish26%No species beyond white fish.
Sweet potato4%The only starch of any size.
Mixed herbs0.5%
Sunflower oil0.1%Named, unlike the poultry trays' vegetable oil.
Mannan-oligosaccharides, seaweed111, 55.6 mg/kgSmall entries given in milligrams, unusually precise for a wet label.
Glucosamine, chondroitin, yucca, cranberry, yeast extract38.9 down to 11.1 mg/kg
Vitamins and minerals

Vitamins A, D3 and E, with the mineral salts named rather than the elements: zinc, iron, copper and manganese sulphates, calcium iodate and sodium selenite.

White fish names no species, so a precise fish exclusion needs more detail than the label gives.

Named ingredients

Salmon (40%), White Fish (26%), Sweet Potato (4%), Mixed Herbs (0.5%), Sunflower Oil (0.1%), Prebiotic Mannan-Oligosaccharides (111mg/kg), Seaweed (55.6mg/kg), Glucosamine (38.9mg/kg), Chondroitin (22.2mg/kg), Yucca Extract (22.2mg/kg), Cranberry Extract (22.2mg/kg), Yeast Extract (11.1mg/kg), vitamins & minerals.

Against the range

Animal content: Salmon 40%, white fish 26%; 60% bird on the other two.
Carbohydrate, dry matter: 22.2%; 14.0% on the chicken.
Fat, dry matter: 29.6%; The richest tray; chicken is 22.0%.

For the dog that gets on better with fish than poultry, this is the tray.

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

122.2 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

9.5%

Fat

Fibre

0.5%

Ash

Moisture

73%

Dry weight

Protein

35.2%

Fat

29.6%

Fibre

1.9%

Ash

11.1%

Carbs

22.2%

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

66%

Added water

17.6%

Carbs

Veg

3.3%

Oils

0.1%

Other

Pricing & size