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Grandma Mae's Grain Free Salmon Meal Review

Grandma Mae's Dry Cat Food 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.

Grandma Mae's Grain Free Salmon Meal 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, Grandma Mae's Grain Free Salmon Meal's most plentiful ingredient listed is salmon meal, which is considered a quality protein source. It also contains herring meal as additional quality protein sources.

Additionally, it's worth noting that this product does not list either by-products nor bulk-adding fillers within its top ingredients. By-products are considered inferior, lesser quality ingredients. Common fillers typically used to add bulk to the product are not required in your cat's diet. Together, their combined absence may be indicative of a higher quality product.

Allergen alert: This product contains salmon meal, herring meal and dried egg which may be problematic for cats who suffer from seafood or eggs food allergies.

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Nutritional Analysis*

Compared to the other 3144 cat foods in our database, Grandma Mae's Grain Free Salmon Meal has:

• significantly less protein than average
• significantly more carbohydrates than average
• an average amount of fat
• less fiber than average
• significantly less moisture than an equivalent wet food

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 January 1, 2020.

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:

Salmon Meal, Field Peas, Chicken Fat (preserved with Mixed Tocopherols), Chickpeas, Herring Meal, Tapioca, Dried Egg, Lentils, Pea Protein, Flaxseed Meal, DL-Methionine, Choline Chloride, Taurine, Cranberries, Blueberries, L-Lysine, Calcium Carbonate, Monosodium Phosphate, Vitamin E Supplement, Dried Lactobacillus acidophilus Fermentation Product, Dried Bacillus subtilis Fermentation Product, Dried Bifidobacterium thermophilum Fermentation Product, Dried Bifidobacterium longum Fermentation Product, Dried Enterococcus faecium Fermentation Product, Chelated Zinc Proteinate, Zinc Sulfate, Selenium Yeast, Ferrous Sulfate, Chelated Copper Proteinate, Chelated Manganese Proteinate, Vitamin A Supplement, Copper Sulfate, Niacin, Calcium Pantothenate, Vitamin B12 Supplement, Manganese Sulfate, Riboflavin, Biotin, Vitamin D3 Supplement, Chelated Cobalt Proteinate, Thiamine Mononitrate, Folic Acid, Calcium Iodate.

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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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