How To Choose The Best Cat Food Brands Your Cat Deserves

How To Choose The Best Cat Food Brands Your Cat Deserves By Moses Wright

From Purina, Friskies, 9Lives to Lams, there are so many cat food manufactures out there with large corporation owning several different product lines to cater to different market needs. For example, Del Monte owns 9lives, Kibbles & Bits and Nature's Recipe; Mars owns Waltham, Sheba, Whiskers and Royal Canin; Procter & Gamble owns Eukanuba and Iams; and Nestle owns Alpo, Friskies and Ralston Purina, to just name a few.

If you are wondering what cat food brand is the best out there, this article might just help answer your question.

For some strange reason, most highly likely to be for profit reasons, these large companies products quality can differ to large extent. For example, one large manufacturer's "natural" cat food is touted as premium with complete and balance nutrition with no artificial preservatives. At the company product site, it describes the differences between their natural formula and other premium cat food and state that their line never uses beef or wheat. Only "highly digestible ingredients like chicken and rabbit meat to provide for protein, rice for carbohydrates..." are used.

Described to be without any artificial preservative, flavors or color and that the formula "uses protein and fat that are preserved with mixed tocopherols, not synthetic preservatives." This line does not use any chemical preservatives, such as ethoxyquin, BHA or BHT. It is naturally preserved with mixed tocopherols", which is supposedly the best and healthiest choice for cats.

On the other hand, the same company produces another range of standard-fare commercial line cat food. This line dry food label start off with the largest ingredient corn followed by chicken by product meal, wheat, corn gluten meal, beef and bone meal, preserved with BHA... and after some vitamin supplements, the label notes caramel coloring, natural and artificial flavors, taurine, yellow 5, red 40 and blue 1.

A further research show that another large cat food manufacturer's "natural" product is virtually the same formula of ingredients as its other product line, just noting that there are no preservatives. (But both the regular and the "natural" product are preserved with mixed tocopherols!)

A discerning consumer may find flaw if not ethical concern when the very same company can tout the healthy benefits of not having BHA and artificial colors in one of its products while creating other products that do have BHA and artificial colors.

One might need to question what that means with regard to the premium food, and is there an ethical issue with having both a sort of sub-premium food and supposed premium food while marketing the nutrient wonders of both? Or are these companies looking out for their own pockets or your cat health?

These questions are for the consumer to ponder. You may or may not take issue with it. Nevertheless, you do need to know that apart from reading the label, "premium and natural" marketing tactics may not be true in all sense that you think it is.

The answer when deciding what type of cat food to feed your cat may not be the brand or even what company own the product lines or how well done the marketing campaign is for the cat food. The answer is really in the label as well as your own knowledge and veterinary advice on what type of cat food is suitable for a healthier and happier cat.