Cesar Simply Crafted Adult Chicken Dog Food Topper
A topper in 1.3 oz trays, made to add to a bowl rather than to feed on its own. With the water taken out it is 91% protein and 1% fat, and each tray carries 35 kcal.
- Topper, not a complete meal
- 1.3 oz tray
- 78% water
Ingredient Wiki
Chicken
The clean flesh of the chicken, with or without skin, used fresh. Roughly 70% of its weight is water, most…
Sweet Potatoes
The tuber of the sweet potato plant, cooked and used as a grain-free carbohydrate. Botanically unrelated to the ordinary potato.
Apples
The fruit of the apple tree, used fresh or dried with the seeds removed.
Water
Plain water, used to make the recipe mixable and, in wet food, to fill the can.
Barley
The grain of the barley plant, one of the older cultivated cereals.
Our read The ingredients
Chicken in water, and the numbers back it
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1 Key Ingredient
5 key ingredients or less. #1 ingredient real chicken
What it is Chicken in natural juices, sold in a 37 g tub. Chicken leads the list, and the juices around it are mostly water.
Our grade
- Marketing
- Modest
- Meaningful
One protein with almost no fat or starch suits a dog on a lean diet. But this is cooked chicken, the same thing you could boil at home, sold by the tub.
Modest Real, but smaller than the pack makes it sound.
Chicken leads and water makes the juice. Nearly every calorie in the tub comes from the chicken itself.
- 1 Chicken
- 4 Water
What’s in the tray
- First meat
- Chicken, first on the list.
- Thickeners and binders
- None we recognize.
- Added color
- None listed.
- Flagged additives
- None from our list.
Guaranteed
Analysis
As printed on the tray, measured “as fed”
- Calories
- 944 kcal/kg
- Crude Protein (min.)
- 20.0%
- Crude Fat (min.)
- 0.3%
- Crude Fiber (max.)
- 0.5%
- Moisture (max.)
- 78.0%
35 kcal per 1.3 oz tray.
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Wet food is mostly water, so the label’s percentages look small next to kibble. Taking the water out is the only fair way to compare it with other foods.
| NUTRIENT | ON THE LABEL | WATER OUT | TOPPER MEDIAN |
|---|---|---|---|
| PROTEIN | 20.0% | 90.9% | 42.1% |
| FAT | 0.3% | 1.4% | 18.8% |
| FIBER | 0.5% | 2.3% | - |
| CARBS (EST.) | - | 0.0% | - |
Carbohydrate is not on any label: it is what is left after protein, fat, fiber, water and an assumed 2% ash.
Our read The label
Nearly pure protein, in small lean doses
96%
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Is it a meal?
No, a topper
Cesar sells it as a topper, mix-in or snack. Plain chicken and water won't cover a dog's vitamins and minerals, so keep it on a complete food.
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Is it a high-protein food?
Yes, very
On a dry basis it runs about double the topper average we list, 91% against 45%, with almost no fat or carbohydrate.
- Feed it to
- Adults on a complete food that need a lean chicken topper, including dogs on a low-fat diet.
- Skip it for
- Puppies, dogs allergic to chicken, dogs on a protein-restricted kidney diet, and owners hoping to replace a meal.
What a tray costs
| SIZE | LOWEST PRICE | PER LB | WHERE |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.3 oz | $1.99LIVE | $24.88 | PetSmart |
| 1.6 oz | $1.77 | $17.70 | Walmart lowest of 3 stores |
Prices marked LIVE were read from the store on Oct 25. Others are from our check on Oct 7. Prices change often; the store’s price at checkout is the one that counts. We may earn a commission on some links.
1 FDA Recall On Record
Filet Mignon Flavor wet dog food Matched by brand. The notice lists the exact products and lots.
None in the last three years. Older events stay on the record. See the recall log
Other Flavors
Protein with the water taken out, read the same way.
Similar recipes from other brands
Other topper recipes with the closest protein, fat and moisture as fed, the way the label prints them. Prescription diets are left out.
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