Drawbacks to feeding Purina Indoor Formula?

Originally Posted by carolinalima

This is the Purina One Indoor Health Weight and Hairball Formula:


Guaranteed Analysis
Crude Protein (MIN)\t38.0% actually good amount but most of it is coming from corn gluten(fine secondary or tritary protein but not primary
Zinc (Zn) (Min)\t100 mg/kg
Crude Fat (MIN)\t8.5% IMHO too low ... yes it is wt control but cats need fat
Selenium (Se) (MIN)\t0.30 mg/kg
Crude Fiber (MAX)\t5.0% \t
Vitamin A (MIN)\t11,000 IU/kg
Moisture (MAX)\t12.0% \t
Vitamin D (MIN)\t800 IU/kg
Linoleic Acid (MIN)\t1.4%
Vitamin E (MIN)\t100 IU/kg
Calcium (Ca) (MIN)\t1.0%
Taurine (MIN)\t0.15%
Phosphorus (P) (MIN)\t0.9% \t\t

Ingredients

Brewers rice, poor quality and not a good first ingrediant at all IMHO. corn gluten meal,Main protein source .. poultry by-product meal, turkey, soybean meal, whole grain cornNOT happy with it and the gluten in same formula , fish mealWHO this is a BIG ??, dried yeast,potential allergen powdered celluloseplant fiber of unknown orgin often a way to hide wheat , soybean hulls, animal fat preserved with mixed-tocopherols (form of Vitamin E), animal liver flavorthis is too generic and can be nearly anything including MSG , soy lecithin, calcium carbonate, soy protein isolate, phosphoric acid, salt, dried spinach, choline chloride, taurine, potassium chloride, zinc sulfate, Vitamin E supplement, ferrous sulfate, manganese sulfate, niacin, Vitamin A supplement, calcium pantothenate, thiamine mononitrate, copper sulfate, riboflavin supplement, Vitamin B-12 supplement, pyridoxine hydrochloride, folic acid, Vitamin D-3 supplement, calcium iodate, biotin, menadione sodium bisulfite complex (source of Vitamin K activity), sodium selenite.

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