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9Lives Tender Morsels With Real Flaked Tuna & Cheese Bits In Sauce Review

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Ingredient Analysis

When evaluating a cat food, the first five ingredients can tell you a lot about the quality of a product as they make up the bulk of the product. Ideally, you're looking for quality protein sources with a minimum of cheap starches, fillers or by-products. Continuing down the ingredient list, look for ingredients that resemble real food with a minimal number of unpronounceable chemicals - the same as you would for human food.

9Lives Tender Morsels With Real Flaked Tuna & Cheese Bits In Sauce includes the following:

Note - a bolded ingredient in the above tables indicates it is one of the first five ingredients listed by the product manufacturer.

In this case, 9Lives Tender Morsels With Real Flaked Tuna & Cheese Bits In Sauce's most plentiful ingredient listed is tuna, which is considered a quality protein source.

Additionally, 9Lives Tender Morsels With Real Flaked Tuna & Cheese Bits In Sauce also contains as top ingredients wheat flour and soy flour. These types of ingredients are typically used as bulk-adding fillers and are not required in your cat's diet.

Allergen alert: This product contains tuna, soy flour, soybean oil, cheese powder and red 3 which may be problematic for cats who suffer from seafood, soy, dairy or artifical colors food allergies.

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Nutritional Analysis*

Compared to the other 2761 cat foods in our database, 9Lives Tender Morsels With Real Flaked Tuna & Cheese Bits In Sauce has:

• significantly more protein than average
• significantly fewer carbohydrates than average
• significantly less fat than average
• an average amount of fiber

In general, cats have been shown to do better with a higher protein, medium fat, lower carb diet with sufficient moisture. However, specialty diets as recommended by your veterinarian may prioritize a different nutritional breakdown.

Calorie Breakdown

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All the product information on this page is based on data collected from the manufacturer's product website as retrieved on April 12, 2016.

The authoritative source for ingredient lists and nutritional analysis for any pet food is always the pet food manufacturer.

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Ingredients

Ingredients as published by the cat food manufacturer:

Tuna, Water Sufficient for Processing, Wheat Flour, Soy Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Soybean Oil, Chicken Fat, Vitamins (Vitamin E Supplement, Thiamine Mononitrate, Vitamin A Supplement, Niacin Supplement, D-calcium Pantothenate, Riboflavin Supplement, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Menadione Sodium Bisulfite Complex [Source of Vitamin K Activity], Folic Acid, Biotin, Vitamin B12 Supplement), Cheese Powder, Natural and Artificial Flavors, Potassium Sorbate (a Preservative), Minerals (Zinc Sulfate, Manganese Sulfate), Glycerol Monostearate, Sodium Nitrite (To Promote Color Retention), Beta Carotene (Color), Canthaxanthin (Color), Caramel Color, Red 3.

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*Note that some nutritional percentages reported are only estimated values, and are indicated as such as (est). Each cat food manufacturer is required by law to publish a Guaranteed Analysis, which defines each product's maximum values of fiber, moisture and ash in addition to the minimum values of protein and fat contained within. Exact nutritional percentages are not available and hence all calculated values (including carbohydrate percentages and calorie amounts) are determined using these minimum and maximum published values and therefore may differ from actual values.

Although a high score may be indicative of a higher-quality product it is not a guarantee. Similarly, a low score may or may not indicate an inferior product. The best food for your cat is the one that meets their individual needs.

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