Cesar Rotisserie Chicken Flavor & Spring Vegetables Review

Cesar Dry Dog Food Review


Quick Analysis

Ingredients:

Nutrition:

Potential Allergens: seafood, corn, soy and artifical colors

Est. Calories: 357 cal/100g

Price: n/a

Overall, Cesar Rotisserie Chicken Flavor & Spring Vegetables is a significantly below average dog food, earning 4 out of a possible 10 paws based on its nutritional analysis and ingredient list.


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 Rotisserie Chicken Flavor & Spring Vegetables includes the following:

Quality Ingredients

  • chicken

Questionable Ingredients

  • chicken by-product meal
  • ground yellow corn
  • ground wheat
  • brewers rice
  • corn gluten meal
  • soybean meal

Potential Allergens

  • ground yellow corn
  • corn gluten meal
  • soybean meal
  • fish oil
  • blue 2
  • red 40

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

In this case, Cesar Rotisserie Chicken Flavor & Spring Vegetables's most plentiful ingredient listed is chicken, which is considered a quality protein source.

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

Additionally, Cesar Rotisserie Chicken Flavor & Spring Vegetables also contains as top ingredients ground yellow corn, ground wheat and brewers rice. These types of ingredients are typically used as bulk-adding fillers and are not required in your dog's diet. However, they are sometimes used to help maintain the kibble shape in dry foods.

Allergen alert: This product contains fish oil, ground yellow corn, corn gluten meal, soybean meal, blue 2 and red 40 which may be problematic for dogs who suffer from seafood, corn, soy or artifical colors food allergies.



Nutritional Analysis*

Compared to the other 1160 dog foods in our database, Cesar Rotisserie Chicken Flavor & Spring Vegetables has:

  • significantly less protein than average
  • significantly more carbohydrates than average
  • 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

Using the calculations provided by the AAFCO, Cesar Rotisserie Chicken Flavor & Spring Vegetables has approximately 357 calories per 100g (101 calories/ounce), which is an average amount of calories compared to the average of the other dry 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

Ingredients as published by the dog food manufacturer:

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, Phosphoric Acid, Sugar, Water, Potassium Sorbate, Potassium Chloride, Choline Chloride, Fish Oil (stabilized with Mixed Tocopherols), Natural Rotisserie Chicken Flavor, Dried Peas, Vitamin E Supplement, Zinc Sulfate, Monocalcium Phosphate, Niacin, Dried Carrots, Yellow 6, d-Calcium Pantothenate, Copper Sulfate, Riboflavin Supplement, Sodium Selenite, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Potassium Iodide, Blue 2, Red 40, Vitamin A Supplement, Thiamine Mononitrate, Folic Acid, Biotin, Yellow5, Vitamin D3 Supplement, Vitamin B12 Supplement.


Guaranteed Analysis

Nutritional information as published by the dog food manufacturer.*

Protein: (min)
26.0%
Fat: (min)
13.0%
Fiber: (max)
4.5%
Carbs: (est)
44.5%
Ash: (est)
0.0%
Moisture: (max)
12.0%

Dry Matter Analysis

The manufacturer's published guaranteed analysis values normalized for moisture content.

Protein: (min)
30%
Fat: (min)
15%
Fiber: (max)
5%
Carbs: (est)
51%
Ash: (est)
0%
Calories: (est)
357/100g

*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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