Cesar Rotisserie Chicken Flavor & Spring Vegetables Garnish Dry Dog Food
The first five ingredients are Chicken, Chicken By-Product Meal, Ground Yellow Corn, Ground Wheat, Brewers Rice. 2 of them are a named animal protein. We put the starch at 43.8%, above the 38.51% average across the foods we hold.
Protein runs low or starch runs high for this type of food. That does not make it unsafe, it just measures lower.
How we got to 49
Five things, one hundred points, and the reason for every one. We would rather show our working than ask you to trust a number.
26-32% dm reads typical mainstream.
Estimated, 6% ash assumed.
Count of named animal proteins.
Matched against the flag list.
Manufacturer, not recipe.
The numbers, without the water
Percentages on a bag include the water in the food, so a wet food always looks lower than a dry one. Taking the water out puts any two foods on the same footing. This one is 88% dry matter.
That is 5.3 points above average, so proportionally more of the bag is starch.
Everything on the label
Printed exactly as the manufacturer lists it, heaviest ingredient first. A dog food needs very little salt, so the 27 ingredients listed after salt are present in even smaller amounts. That is the salt divider, and it is why we only weigh the top of the list.
Chicken, Chicken By-Product Meal, Ground Yellow Corn, Ground Wheat, Brewers Rice, Meat & Bone Meal, Corn Gluten Meal, Animal Fat (Preserved with BHA & Citric Acid), Soybean Meal, Natural Flavor, Dried Beet Pulp, Glycerin, Salt*The Salt Divider. Ingredients are listed heaviest first, and a dog food needs very little salt, so everything after this point is present in an even smaller amount., Phosphoric Acid, Sugar, Water, Potassium Sorbate, Potassium Chloride, Choline Chloride, Fish Oil (Stabilized with Mixed Tocopherols), Rotisserie Chicken Flavor, Dried Peas, Vitamin E Supplement, Zinc Sulfate, Monocalcium Phosphate, Colors (Red 40, Blue 2, Yellow 5 & 6), Niacin, Dried Carrots, d-Calcium Pantothenate, Copper Sulfate, Riboflavin Supplement, Sodium Selenite, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Potassium Iodide, Vitamin A supplement, Thiamine Mononitrate, Folic Acid, Biotin, Vitamin D3 Supplement, Vitamin B12 Supplement
What those first ingredients actually are
The top of the list is most of the food by weight, so it is worth knowing what each one is. Green marks a named animal protein.
Chicken
The clean flesh of the chicken, with or without skin, used fresh. Roughly 70% of its weight is water, most of which is driven off during…
Chicken By-Product Meal
A concentrated meal rendered from the parts of the chicken left after the flesh is removed, such as organs and frames, excluding feathers and feet.
Ground Yellow Corn
Yellow corn kernels milled to a coarse flour.
Wheat
The grain of the wheat plant, one of the most widely grown cereals.
Brewers Rice
The small fragments of rice kernel separated out during milling, a by-product of producing whole white rice.
How much of this to feed
A starting point, worked out from the resting energy formula vets use and this food's own calorie density. Every dog is different, so watch their weight and adjust. Your vet's advice beats a calculator.
How it compares
Same figures, same method, put next to another recipe from Cesar and the archive average.
| Metric | This recipe | Cesar Filet Mignon Flavor &… | Archive average |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Score | 49 | 49 | -- |
| Protein, water out | 29.5% | 29.5% | -- |
| Starch, water out | 43.8% | 43.8% | 38.51% |
| Named in first five | 2 of 5 | 2 of 5 | -- |
Recall history
Recalls are matched to the manufacturer, not this exact recipe. A recall on a different product still tells you something about the plant it came from.
We have not matched any FDA recall to Cesar. We check the feed daily and this page updates when that changes.
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