Help! Please review this cat food ingredients?

Hi! I'm new to premium cat food. Other than no by-products I don't know what else to look for. Can you please check out the cat food ingredients in this cat food I was recommended at the pet store and tell me if it's good? I was told it is premium and quality but it is their store brand.

It's Nature's Harvest Natural Pet foods Adult/Kitten Dry. (Canadian, not to be mistaken for the UK brand by the same name). It says Holistic on the bag.

Here is the website for it: http://www.naturesharvest.ca/node/9

These are the ingredients listed on the website, what do you think? Is this good? Thank you so much for your help!!

Chicken meal, fresh salmon, brown rice, barley, rice protein, chicken fat preserved with mixed tocopherols (a source of vitamin E), dried chicken, beet pulp, dehydrated tomato pomace, dehydrated whole eggs, whole flax seeds (a source of omega-3 fatty acids), yeast culture, natural flavor, lecithin, choline chloride, potassium chloride, calcium propionate, cheese meal, garlic powder, prebiotics (mannan-oligosaccharides), kelp meal, dried cranberries, dried apples, chicory roots, taurine, calcium carbonate, ferrous sulfate, dried blueberries, Yucca schidigera extracts, zinc oxide, probiotics (dehydrated Lactobacillus acidophillus fermentation products, dehydrated Lactobacillus casei fermentation products, dehydrated Bifidobacterium bifidium fermentation products, dehydrated Streptococcus faecium fermentation products, dehydrated Aspergillus oryzae fermentation products), proteinates ( copper, zinc, manganese), Dl-alpha-tocopheryl acetate (vitamin E), nicotinic acid, copper sulfate, manganous oxide, vitamin B12 supplement, retinyl acetate (vitamin A), cholecalciferol (vitamin D3), calcium d-pantothenate, thiamin mononitrate, sodium selenite, riboflavin, pyridoxine hydrochloride, biotin, cobalt carbonate, calcium iodate, folic acid, menadione nicotinamide bisulfite (vitamin K3).

It has garlic powder in it? From what I understand cats should not have any amount of garlic...

Originally Posted by Moi

Chicken meal, fresh salmon, brown rice, barley, rice protein, chicken fat preserved with mixed tocopherols (a source of vitamin E), dried chicken, beet pulp, dehydrated tomato pomace, dehydrated whole eggs, whole flax seeds (a source of omega-3 fatty acids), yeast culture, natural flavor, lecithin, choline chloride, potassium chloride, calcium propionate, cheese meal, garlic powder, prebiotics (mannan-oligosaccharides), kelp meal, dried cranberries, dried apples, chicory roots, taurine, calcium carbonate, ferrous sulfate, dried blueberries, Yucca schidigera extracts, zinc oxide, probiotics (dehydrated Lactobacillus acidophillus fermentation products, dehydrated Lactobacillus casei fermentation products, dehydrated Bifidobacterium bifidium fermentation products, dehydrated Streptococcus faecium fermentation products, dehydrated Aspergillus oryzae fermentation products), proteinates ( copper, zinc, manganese), Dl-alpha-tocopheryl acetate (vitamin E), nicotinic acid, copper sulfate, manganous oxide, vitamin B12 supplement, retinyl acetate (vitamin A), cholecalciferol (vitamin D3), calcium d-pantothenate, thiamin mononitrate, sodium selenite, riboflavin, pyridoxine hydrochloride, biotin, cobalt carbonate, calcium iodate, folic acid, menadione nicotinamide bisulfite (vitamin K3).

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Even if this wasn't a kibble, this is not something I would ever feed to a cat.

There are two meats listed - and one of them fish - to three grain sources, chicken fat (known to have bad stuff in it truthaboutpetfood.com ) and that crazy long list of additives.

Just my opinion, but no way.

AC

It's certainly better tham Meow Mix. . .but you could do better. What stores do you have available?

I do not see a huge list of additives in there, nor do I know why chicken fat is bad... Frankly, yes, like everything in life, there are better formulas out there, but IMHO this is not at all that bad of a formula... It looks pretty decent to me. If your cats like it and do well on it and it fits your budget, that is what matters.
If I could choose, which I can't due to my cats eating for their specific needs, I would maybe look for less grains - one or two, preferably rice and oats.... But bad I don't think that formula is...

I don't see what is so bad about this food? It looks just as good as any premium dry food on the market to me. I must be missing something....??

Originally Posted by sarathan

I don't see what is so bad about this food? It looks just as good as any premium dry food on the market to me. I must be missing something....??

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Mostly, what I was looking at were: rice protein high on the list (I would rather not see a non-animal major protein source), both beet pulp and tomato pomace (these are fiber sources/fillers--one would be OK, but both?), also pretty high on the list. Some cats are allrgic to lecithin. And some cats have issues with foods that have a lot of added fruits and veggies. . .they're not exactly made to digest such things. But it's not a bad food. Just not as good as some others. For me it would depend how much it cost--if it were on the lower end of the price range for premium foods, iId probably buy it now and then. If it's really expensive, no.

Wow, thanks so much everybody!!!! I spoke to someone at another pet shop and got some better advice, I ended up with Acana instead. I learned about grain-free. Hope that's good.