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Instinct Raw Frozen Bites Wild-Caught Alaskan Pollock Recipe 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.

Instinct Raw Frozen Bites Wild-Caught Alaskan Pollock 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, Instinct Raw Frozen Bites Wild-Caught Alaskan Pollock Recipe's most plentiful ingredient listed is pollock, which is considered a quality protein source. It also contains beef spleen, beef kidney, beef liver and beef 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 beef spleen, beef kidney, beef liver, beef, pollock and salmon oil which may be problematic for cats who suffer from beef or seafood food allergies.

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Nutritional Analysis*

Compared to the other 2849 cat foods in our database, Instinct Raw Frozen Bites Wild-Caught Alaskan Pollock Recipe has:

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

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 8, 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:

Pollock, Beef Spleen, Beef Kidney, Beef Liver, Beef, Ground Flaxseed, Salmon Oil, Yeast Culture, Montmorillonite Clay, Ground Miscanthus Grass, Carrots, Apples, Butternut Squash, Blueberries, Spinach, Vitamins (Vitamin E Supplement, Thiamine Mononitrate, Vitamin D3 Supplement), Salt, Tricalcium Phosphate, Choline Chloride, Taurine, Potassium Chloride, Mixed Tocopherols (for freshness), Minerals (Zinc Proteinate, Copper Proteinate, Manganese Proteinate, Calcium Iodate), 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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