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Paws & Claws Seafood Mix Review

Paws & Claws 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.

Paws & Claws Seafood Mix 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, Paws & Claws Seafood Mix includes chicken by-product meal. By-products are typically considered an inferior, lesser quality ingredient in cat food.

Additionally, Paws & Claws Seafood Mix also contains as top ingredients ground yellow corn, corn gluten meal and soybean meal. 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 ocean fish meal, salmon meal, tuna meal, shrimp meal, crab meal, fish oil, ground yellow corn, corn gluten meal and soybean meal which may be problematic for cats who suffer from seafood, corn or soy food allergies.

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Nutritional Analysis*

Compared to the other 2849 cat foods in our database, Paws & Claws Seafood Mix has:

• significantly 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 29, 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:

Ground yellow corn, corn gluten meal, chicken by-product meal, soybean meal, chicken fat (preserved with mixed tocopherols), meat and bone meal, natural flavor, ocean fish meal, salmon meal, tuna meal, shrimp meal, crab meal, seaweed meal, calcium carbonate, salt, fish oil, monocalcium phosphate, taurine, potassium chloride, choline chloride, ferrous sulfate, zinc sulfate, vitamin E supplement, zinc oxide, copper sulfate, added color (yellow #5, red #40, yellow #6, blue #2), niacin, manganous oxide, vitamin A supplement, d-calcium pantothenate, thiamine mononitrate, sodium selenite, riboflavin supplement, pyridoxine hydrochloride, biotin, vitamin B12 supplement, menadione sodium bisulfite complex (source of vitamin K), folic acid, calcium iodate, vitamin D3 supplement, cobalt carbonate

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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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