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Cesar Hearty Chicken, Noodle & Vegetables Dinner Review

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Ingredient Analysis

When evaluating a dog food, the first five ingredients can tell you a lot about the quality of a product as they make up the bulk of the product. Ideally, you're looking for quality protein sources with a minimum of cheap starches, fillers or by-products. Continuing down the ingredient list, look for ingredients that resemble real food with a minimal number of unpronounceable chemicals - the same as you would for human food.

Cesar Hearty Chicken, Noodle & Vegetables Dinner includes the following:

Note - a bolded ingredient in the above tables indicates it is one of the first five ingredients listed by the product manufacturer.

Although not the first product listed (which is the most plentiful), Cesar Hearty Chicken, Noodle & Vegetables Dinner does contain with its top ingredients chicken and chicken liver which are considered quality protein sources.

However, this product also lists meat by-products within its top ingredients. By-products are typically considered inferior, lesser quality ingredients.

Please also be aware that this product contains guar gum, which is an additive that some experts claim may be a possible contributor to certain medical conditions in dogs.

Allergen alert: This product contains corn starch, wheat gluten and meat by-products which may be problematic for dogs who suffer from corn, wheat gluten or meat by-products food allergies.

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Nutritional Analysis*

Compared to the other 1160 dog foods in our database, Cesar Hearty Chicken, Noodle & Vegetables Dinner has:

• significantly more protein than average
• an average amount of carbohydrates
• significantly less fat than average
• an average amount of fiber

In general, dogs have been shown to do better with a higher protein, medium fat, lower carb diet with sufficient moisture. However, specialty diets as recommended by your veterinarian may prioritize a different nutritional breakdown.

Calorie Breakdown

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All the product information on this page is based on data collected from the manufacturer's product website as retrieved on June 11, 2017.

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Ingredients

Ingredients as published by the dog food manufacturer:

Sufficient Water for Processing, Chicken, Chicken Liver, Enriched Noodle Product (Wheat, Egg White, Niacin, Ferrous Sulfate, Thiamin Mononitrate, Riboflavin, Folic Acid), Meat By-Products, Wheat Gluten, Corn Starch, Wheat Flour, Dried Carrots, Dried Green Beans, Pea Fiber,  Minerals (potassium Chloride, Calcium Carbonate, Magnesium Proteinate, Zinc Sulfate, Copper Sulfate, Potassium Iodide), Salt, Natural Flavor, Sodium Tripolyphosphate, Vitamins (Choline Chloride, Vitamin E Supplement, Biotin, D-calcium Pantothenate, Thiamine Mononitrate [Vitamin B1], Vitamin B12 Supplement, Riboflavin [Vitamin B2], Vitamin A Supplement, Vitamin D3 Supplement, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride), Added Color, Xanthan Gum, Guar Gum, Sodium Nitrite (for color retention).

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*Note that some nutritional percentages reported are only estimated values, and are indicated as such as (est). Each dog food manufacturer is required by law to publish a Guaranteed Analysis, which defines each product's maximum values of fiber, moisture and ash in addition to the minimum values of protein and fat contained within. Exact nutritional percentages are not available and hence all calculated values (including carbohydrate percentages and calorie amounts) are determined using these minimum and maximum published values and therefore may differ from actual values.

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