Cesar Home Delights Pot Roast with Spring Vegetables Dinner review

Cesar · Home Delights Pot Roast with Spring Vegetables Dinner · Wet food · Adult maintenance

79 / 100Our label score

★★★★☆4 of 5 stars, from the score

7%Crude protein (min)

92kcal per 3.5 oz

1FDA recall event for the brand

On the facts printed on its own label, Cesar Home Delights Pot Roast with Spring Vegetables Dinner scores 79 out of 100 on our rubric: a solid mid table label. The panel opens with Beef, and the first ingredient signal earns 20 of its 20 points. At 7% crude protein it ranks 8 of the 8 Cesar recipes we scored for protein. Crude fat reads 3.5%.

Its adequacy claim rests on formulation: balanced on paper against the AAFCO nutrient profiles rather than fed to dogs in a trial. The brand carries one FDA posted recall event in our check, set out below with its date.

The panel runs to 39 ingredient lines. 5 of them are animal source lines and 6 are plant lines. Salt appears at line 16 of 39: ingredients listed after salt are present in small amounts, a standard reading aid for long panels. The vitamin and mineral pack begins around line 22; the 18 lines from there on are mostly supplements, preservatives and functional extras rather than staple foods.

Its closest relative in this brand is Filets in Gravy Prime Rib, sold as Wet food: the two panels share most of their ingredients. In the first ten, this recipe has Chicken Broth, Carrots, Potato, where its relative has Wheat Gluten, Chicken Heart, Wheat Flour. The full comparison is on the relative's own review page.

The label facts

Maker	Mars Petcare
Format	Wet food
Life stage	Adult maintenance
Full ingredient list, in label order	Beef Chicken Broth Water Carrots Chicken Potato Chicken Liver Spinach Animal Plasma Corn Starch Chicken Heart Wheat Gluten Dried Plain Beet Pulp Parsley Dried Egg Product Salt Calcium Carbonate Potassium Chloride Choline Chloride Sodium Tripolyphosphate Added Color Zinc Sulfate Magnesium Proteinate Xanthan Gum DL-Methionine Guar Gum Manganese Sulfate Vitamin E Supplement Sodium Carbonate D-Calcium Pantothenate Biotin Copper Sulfate Thiamine Mononitrate (Vitamin B1) Riboflavin Supplement (Vitamin B2) Potassium Iodide Vitamin A Supplement Pyridoxine Hydrochloride (Vitamin B6) Vitamin B12 Supplement Vitamin D3 Supplement
Guaranteed analysis	Crude protein (min) 7% · crude fat (min) 3.5% · crude fibre (max) 1% · moisture (max) 82%
Dry matter reading	With the water taken out, the same analysis reads 38.9% protein and 19.4% fat. Dry matter is how wet and dry foods can be compared fairly.
Calories	917 kcal/kg, 92 kcal per 3.5 oz, as labelled
AAFCO adequacy	Our dog food is 100% complete and balanced for adult dogs.
Price	Not listed. We publish a price only when we have verified it from a dated listing, and we had not for this recipe when the label was read.

How the score breaks down

Signal	Points	What the label shows
First ingredient	20 / 20	Beef, a named whole animal protein, opens the panel.
Animal protein depth, first 10 ingredients	10 / 15	3 of the first ten ingredients are named animal ingredients.
Protein level for the life stage	15 / 15	Crude protein reads 38.9% on a dry matter basis (water removed), read against the adult maintenance stage the label claims.
Fat level fit	7 / 10	Crude fat reads 19.4% on a dry matter basis (water removed).
Whole foods versus filler-flagged ingredients	10 / 10	None of the rubric's flagged ingredients appears in the first ten.
Artificial colours and preservatives	4 / 10	Found in the panel: added color. Colour and colour-retention chemicals feed the eye of the buyer, not the dog.
AAFCO adequacy basis	7 / 10	Formulated to meet AAFCO profiles for the stated stage (adult maintenance).
FDA recall history	6 / 10	One FDA posted dog food recall event found for the brand in our November 2026 check.
Price tier	Not scored	Not scored in this round. We publish a price only when we have verified it from a dated listing.
Total	79 / 100	Scaled from 79 of 100 available points. Stars are the score divided by 20, rounded to the nearest half. The method is published in full on the dog food hub.

Ingredient notes: the first ten, one by one

Definitions below are written from AAFCO's ingredient definitions in our own words. They describe what an ingredient is, never what a brand claims about it.

Beef. Beef is the named meat in fresh form. Panel order is set by weight before cooking, and fresh meat is mostly water, so its share of the finished food is smaller than its place at the top suggests.
Chicken Broth. Chicken Broth is a cooking liquid from the named animal. It brings flavour and moisture, and in a wet food it is most of the weight in the can.
Water. Water is the base of a wet food. A wet panel is mostly water by design, which is why its analysis is read on a dry matter basis.
Carrots. Carrots is a fruit or vegetable inclusion. At panel positions like this the amounts are small; treat them as garnish with benefits, not a nutrient pillar.
Chicken. Chicken is the named meat in fresh form. Panel order is set by weight before cooking, and fresh meat is mostly water, so its share of the finished food is smaller than its place at the top suggests.
Potato. Potato is a starch binder. In grain free recipes it is usually what holds the kibble together in place of grain.
Chicken Liver. Chicken Liver is organ tissue from a named animal. Organs are dense in vitamins, minerals and amino acids, and they are a normal part of what a dog is built to eat.
Spinach. Spinach is a fruit or vegetable inclusion. At panel positions like this the amounts are small; treat them as garnish with benefits, not a nutrient pillar.
Animal Plasma. Animal Plasma sits on the panel as a functional ingredient: a binder, supplement or processing aid rather than a nutrient base.
Corn Starch. Corn Starch is corn used as an energy base. Cooked corn is digestible and not the villain of dog food folklore, but it is one of the cheapest calorie sources in the industry, which is why our rubric flags it.

Who it suits

Owners who want a named whole meat, not a meal or a plant, at the top of the panel
Picky eaters and older dogs: wet food smells stronger and is easier to chew

Who should skip it

Owners who specifically want a food proven in feeding trials rather than by formulation
Large dog homes on a budget: wet food takes several cans a day at big-dog calories

The brand's recall record

2016: Mars Petcare recalled CESAR Classics Filet Mignon Flavor trays and variety packs in October 2016, in an FDA posted notice, over pieces of hard white plastic that entered during production and posed a choking risk. No injuries were reported.

The single event covered this recipe's own flavour in its tray format, and it is the only Cesar event we found in FDA records in our November 2026 check.

See the full dog food recall tracker for recent events across all brands.

Other Cesar recipes we scored

Recipe	Score / 100	Protein	Format
Wholesome Bowls Beef, Chicken, Carrots & Purple Potatoes	78	9.5%	Wet food
Simply Crafted Chicken	76	20%	Wet food
Classic Loaf in Sauce Turkey	74	8.5%	Wet food
Classic Loaf in Sauce Dry-Aged Ribeye	70	9%	Wet food
Classic Loaf in Sauce Beef	70	9%	Wet food
Filets in Gravy Prime Rib	58	8%	Wet food
Rotisserie Chicken Flavor & Spring Vegetables Garnish	56	26%	Dry food

Feeding it

Switch foods gradually over about a week, mixing more of the new food into the old each day. Portion by calories, not by the look of the bowl: our feeding calculator works out a daily amount from your dog's weight, and this recipe's calorie line above is the number it needs.

What that means at the bowl, for a typical neutered adult (resting energy 70 times body weight to the power 0.75, times 1.6; treats come out of the same budget):

Dog's weight	Daily energy	Of this recipe, at 92 kcal a can
3 kg	about 255 kcal	about 2.8 cans
10 kg	about 630 kcal	about 6.8 cans
20 kg	about 1,059 kcal	about 11.5 cans
30 kg	about 1,436 kcal	about 15.6 cans

Puppies, pregnant dogs and very active dogs need more; older and weight watching dogs need less. The calculator linked above adjusts for those cases.

Cesar Home Delights Pot Roast with Spring Vegetables Dinner: our recipe review