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Blackwood Adult Cat Everyday Chicken Meal & Corn Recipe Review

Blackwood 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.

Blackwood Adult Cat Everyday Chicken Meal & Corn Recipe 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, Blackwood Adult Cat Everyday Chicken Meal & Corn Recipe's most plentiful ingredient listed is chicken meal, which is considered a quality protein source.

Additionally, Blackwood Adult Cat Everyday Chicken Meal & Corn Recipe also contains as top ingredients ground corn and brown rice. These types of ingredients are typically used as bulk-adding fillers and are not required in your cat's diet. However, they are sometimes used to help maintain the kibble shape in dry foods.

Allergen alert: This product contains whitefish meal, menhaden fish oil and ground corn which may be problematic for cats who suffer from seafood or corn food allergies.

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Nutritional Analysis*

Compared to the other 2877 cat foods in our database, Blackwood Adult Cat Everyday Chicken Meal & Corn Recipe has:

• significantly less protein than average
• significantly more carbohydrates than average
• less fat than average
• significantly 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 7, 2023.

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:

Chicken Meal, Ground Corn, Brown Rice, Millet, Chicken Fat (Preserved with Mixed Tocopherols), Pea Protein, Whitefish Meal, Dried Plain Beet Pulp, Natural Flavor, Brewers Dried Yeast, Whole Ground Flaxseed, Menhaden Fish Oil (Preserved with Mixed Tocopherols), Potassium Chloride, L-Lysine, DL-Methionine, Taurine, Salt, L-Ascorbyl-2-Polyphosphate, Yucca Schidigera Extract, Calcium Carbonate, Vitamin E Supplement, Niacin Supplement, Mixed Tocopherols, Dried Seaweed Meal, Thiamine Monoitrate, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Riboflavin Supplement, d-Calcium Pantothenate, Vitamin B12 Supplement, Vitamin A Acetate, Vitamin D3 Supplement, Citric Acid, Biotin, Folic Acid, Potassium Chloride, Ferrous Sulfate, Zinc Sulfate, Zinc Proteinate, Iron Proteinate, Copper Sulfate, Zinc Oxide, Manganese Sulfate, Manganese Proteinate, Copper Proteinate, Manganous Oxide, Calcium Iodate, Sodium Selenite, Dried Lactobacillus casei Fermentation Product, Dried Lactobacillus acidophilus Fermentation Product, Dried Bifidobacterium animalis Fermentation Product, Dried Lactobacillus reuteri Fermentation Product

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*Note that 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 and moisture in addition to the minimum values of protein and fat contained within. Optionally, manufacturers may also publish a product's ash content. When they are not published an average of 3% ash for wet food, and 6% ash for dry food, will be used. Because exact nutritional percentages are not available and 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. Any other manufacturer published values in a product's Guaranteed Analysis is done at the manufacture's discretion, and is not used in any of the calculations done by CatFoodDB.

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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