Overall, Cesar Puppy Canine Cuisine With Lamb & Rice is an average dog food, earning 6 out of a possible 10 paws based on its nutritional analysis and ingredient list.
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 Puppy Canine Cuisine With Lamb & Rice 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 Puppy Canine Cuisine With Lamb & Rice does contain with its top ingredients chicken and lamb which are considered quality protein sources. In this case, Cesar Puppy Canine Cuisine With Lamb & Rice's first ingredient listed (and hence the most plentiful) is meat by-product which is considered an inferior ingredient.Please also be aware that this product contains carrageenan and guar gum, which are additives that some experts claim may be possible contributors to certain medical conditions in dogs.
Allergen alert: This product contains lamb and fish oil which may be problematic for dogs who suffer from lamb or seafood food allergies.
Compared to the other 1160 dog foods in our database, Cesar Puppy Canine Cuisine With Lamb & Rice has:
Using the calculations provided by the AAFCO, Cesar Puppy Canine Cuisine With Lamb & Rice has approximately 102 calories per 100g (29 calories/ounce), which is compared to the average of the other wet dog foods in the DogFoodDB.
All the product information on this page is based on data collected from the manufacturer's product website as retrieved on June 11, 2017.
Ingredients as published by the dog food manufacturer:
Meat By-Product, Sufficient Water for Processing, Chicken, Animal Liver, Lamb, Rice, Chicken By-Products, Calcium Carbonate, Sodium Tripolyphoshphate, Fish Oil, Carrageenan, Potassium Chloride, Dried Yam, Added Color, Xanthan Gum, Magnesium Proteinate, Natural Flavor, Salt, Erythorbic Acid, dl-Methionine, Guar Gum, Sugar, Zinc Sulfate, Vitamin E Supplement, Biotin, Potassium Iodide, Copper Sulfate, Yellow #6, Sodium Nitrite (for color retention), d-Calcium Pantothenate, Yellow #5, Manganese Sulfate, Thiamine Mononitrate (Vitamin B1), Vitamin A Supplement, Vitamin D3 Supplement
Nutritional information as published by the dog food manufacturer.*
The manufacturer's published guaranteed analysis values normalized for moisture content.
*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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