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Boreal Functional Indoor Cat 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.

Boreal Functional Indoor Cat 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, Boreal Functional Indoor Cat's most plentiful ingredient listed is chicken, which is considered a quality protein source. It also contains chicken meal as additional quality protein sources.

Additionally, Boreal Functional Indoor Cat also contains as top ingredients buckwheat. 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 salmon meal, salmon oil and dried egg product which may be problematic for cats who suffer from seafood or eggs food allergies.

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Nutritional Analysis*

Compared to the other 2877 cat foods in our database, Boreal Functional Indoor Cat has:

• significantly less protein than average
• significantly more carbohydrates than average
• significantly less fat than average
• significantly more 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 July 5, 2021.

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, chicken meal, sweet potato, buckwheat, pumpkin, lentils, salmon meal, dried egg product, natural flavor, chicken fat (preserved with mixed tocopherols and citric acid), flaxseed, salmon oil (preserved with mixed tocopherols and citric acid), sun-dried miscanthus grass, lecithin, blueberry, cranberry, apple, spinach, carob, calcium carbonate, choline chloride, calcium propionate, sodium tripolyphosphate, dl-methionine, yeast extract, dicalcium phosphate, taurine, chicory root extract, salt, kelp, l-lysine, l-tryptophan, cranberry extract, l-carnitine, ginger root, chamomile flowers, fumaric acid, lactic acid, citric acid, malic acid, valerian root, yucca schidigera extract, thyme extract, zinc oxide, ferrous sulfate, zinc amino acid complex, iron amino acid complex, niacinamide, manganese oxide, vitamin e supplement, vitamin a supplement, calcium pantothenate supplement, riboflavin, thiamine mononitrate, pyridoxine hydrochloride, copper sulfate, copper proteinate, manganese amino acid complex, folic acid supplement, vitamin d3 supplement, vitamin b12 supplement, biotin, calcium iodate, sodium selenite, rosemary extract

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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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