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Natural Balance Original Ultra Senior Chicken & Salmon Meal Review

Natural Balance 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.

Natural Balance Original Ultra Senior Chicken & 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, Natural Balance Original Ultra Senior Chicken & Salmon Meal's most plentiful ingredient listed is chicken, which is considered a quality protein source. It also contains chicken meal and salmon 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, menhaden fish oil and dried eggs which may be problematic for cats who suffer from seafood or eggs food allergies.

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Nutritional Analysis*

Compared to the other 2849 cat foods in our database, Natural Balance Original Ultra Senior Chicken & Salmon Meal has:

• less protein than average
• significantly more carbohydrates than average
• significantly less fat than average
• an average amount of fiber
• 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 December 12, 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, Lentils, Brewers Dried Yeast, Salmon Meal, Sweet Potato, Peas, Potatoes, Pea Starch, Chicken Fat (mixed tocopherols used as a preservative), Dried Plain Beet Pulp, Natural Flavor, Flaxseed, Pumpkin, Spinach, Alfalfa Meal, Carrots, Cranberries, Apples, Potassium Chloride, Salt, Menhaden Fish Oil (mixed tocopherols used as a preservative), Taurine, Vitamins (Vitamin E Supplement, Ascorbic Acid (Source of Vitamin C), Niacin, Vitamin A Supplement, Thiamine Mononitrate , d-Calcium Pantothenate, Riboflavin Supplement, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Vitamin B12 Supplement, Folic Acid, Biotin, Vitamin D3 Supplement), DL-Methionine, Choline Chloride, Dried Eggs, Minerals (Zinc Proteinate, Zinc Sulfate, Ferrous Sulfate, Iron Proteinate, Copper Sulfate, Copper Proteinate, Manganese Sulfate, Manganese Proteinate, Sodium Selenite, Calcium Iodate), Blueberries, L-Ascorbyl-2-Polyphosphate, L-Tryptophan, Kelp, Yucca Schidigera Extract, Mixed Tocopherols (used as a preservative), Citric Acid (used as a preservative), L-Lysine Monohydrochloride, 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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