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Front of the packageWet food · 3.5 oz tray
Cesar Filet Mignon Flavor Wet Dog Food, front of the package
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CesarBrand transparency C

Filet Mignon Flavor Wet Dog Food

Wet food · 3.5 oz trayDog foodScored October 2026

Panel Score 71 out of 100, grade C: Proceed with caution
Flags
55 caution
Ingredients
30all in our library
Brand grade
Ctransparency, costs 5 points
Recalls
0linked to this product
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Why 7196 to start

It adds up, line by line.

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Cesar
Filet Mignon Flavor Wet Dog Food

Starting point96
Brand transparency · C-5
Documented recall · none0
Panel Score71 C

Proceed with caution

Scored October 2026 · checkthepanel.com

Flags-20 points in all

5 flagged ingredients.

Avoid first. Each flag costs points in the score above; where a flag has an entry behind it, it links to the evidence.

Caution-4

Added color

Color added for the buyer's eye, not a synthetic dye; your pet does not care what color it is.

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Caution-4

Carrageenan

A seaweed thickener linked to gut inflammation in some lab studies.

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Caution-4

Meat flavor and digest

A rendered palatant from animal tissue; the vaguer the name, the less you know.

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Caution-4

Natural flavor

An undisclosed blend. Not harmful per se, but it hides what your pet is actually tasting.

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Caution-4

Sodium nitrite

A curing salt that can form nitrosamines under heat; levels are legally capped.

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IngredientsAs printed · 30 lines

Every ingredient, top to bottom.

Listed by weight, so the first few lines are most of the food. Tap any line to see what it is and why it's there.

30 ingredients. 5 of them carry this product's 5 flags and are marked below. The other 25 raised no flag.

RecallsFrom FDA notices

Recall record.

This product

None linked

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Cesar, the brand

No FDA recalls on file

None of the FDA recall notices we have imported names Cesar.

Brand6 Cesar products scored

The brand behind it.

CTransparency

Cesar

Grocery wet-food trays with a gourmet image but by-product-and-dye panels.

Small wet trays built on unnamed meat by-products and added color. The C grade takes 5 points off this product's score.

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Independent testing & contaminants

No independent testing on file.

Third-party lab findings for things that never appear on an ingredient label. This is separate from the score above and does not change it.

We haven't found published third-party lab results (PFAS, heavy metals, phthalates) for this product. That is not a clean bill of health, just an absence of data.

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This page was corrected 4 times.

  • Oct 24, 2026 Panel Score 67 → 71: removed “Unnamed animal ingredients”. “Unnamed animal ingredients” was a flag of our own for lines that don't say which animal they come from. We retired it on October 24, 2026 for the entries our library has for those lines, each counted once. Every animal line on this panel names its animal: beef, pork by-products, chicken liver, chicken broth, beef lung and chicken heart. The filet mignon flavor already carries Meat flavor and digest.
  • Sep 22, 2026 Panel Score 71 → 67: added a caution for Meat flavor and digest. The panel lists “Filet mignon flavor”. Our ingredient library did not recognise that wording until this line was added on September 22, 2026, so the record was not carrying the flag.
  • Sep 22, 2026 “Artificial colors” is now “Added color”. The score did not change. The panel says only “Added color” and names no synthetic dye.
  • Sep 21, 2026 Panel Score 83 → 71: added flags for Carrageenan, Sodium nitrite and Natural flavor. The printed panel lists it and our record was not carrying the flag.

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