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Old 03-28-2017, 06:07 PM   #8
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Default Re: Suggestions for grain free cat food?

If you've got the brainspace for it, CatInfo.org is the website to study. Dr. Pearson has done heaps of (well cited) research on feeding cats properly and makes updates to her recommendations as the information/understanding changes If you want to really dig into the data, it's there, but she also offers some concise suggestions. She keeps a list, most recently updated just this month, analyzing the breakdown of protein/fat/carbs in pretty much every available commercial cat food: http://catinfo.org/docs/CatFoodProte...horusChart.pdf

I went through it all just this past week*, and the real stand-outs for content were (in order of cost):
  1. Tiki Cat [Koolina or Puka Puka]
  2. Nature's Recipe [Indoor or Chicken & Turkey]
  3. Against the Grain [Caribbean Club Chicken]
  4. VeRus [Beef, Apple, Vegetable]
  5. Iams Purrfect Delights [Winner, Winner with Chicken]
  6. Fancy Feast's Chicken Tray is shockingly decent and shockingly the MOST expensive
Grain-free =/= low carb. All of those foods have carbs under 2% and protein over 50%. It may or may not help you, but I figure the legwork should benefit someone




*I had been curious to see the cost comparison between a good commercial food and the homemade diet (also from CatInfo) that we have done for over a decade. It's been great but it is so. much. work. Commercial foods start at three times the cost So I guess we're sticking with work
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