Basic dry cat food

No fruits and veggies would cover peas and potatoes and rice (its a long-grain vegetable) for that matter as veggies.   

 

Any dry cat food without veggies would by definition be grain-free, so you'd have to allow for at least some veggies.

 

I think you'd be happy with Wellness Complete Health even though it has some veggie/fruit:

 

 

 

I agree with the above part. I would recommend, Evo dry food. More specifically, Evo Chicken and Turkey formula.

 

I use that with my pure domestic cats (as part of there rotation), as well as my F3 Savannah. My F3 Savannah could not digest any other commercial food. He has been on this for over a year, knock on wood, no problems.

 

Ingredients are as follows:

• Turkey, Chicken Meal, Chicken, Herring Meal, Chicken Fat (Preserved with Mixed Tocopherols, a Natural Source of Vitamin E), Peas, Eggs, Turkey Meal, Pea Fiber,Natural Flavors, Apples, Carrots, Cranberries, Herring Oil, Tomatoes,Pumpkin, Dried Chicory Root, Cottage Cheese, Alfalfa Sprouts, Taurine, DL-Methionine. Source: http://www.evopet.com/products/1441.

I am very sorry, but I have no other suggestions then. I hope you find something that works for your cats.

I know someone from another forum whose dog has seizures, and rosemary is one of his triggers. She says it's really hard to find a kibble without rosemary. I don't know if cat foods are any different. I'll look at the foods I use to see if they have rosemary.

What other ingredients, specifically, do you want to avoid completely, and which ones would be OK in small amounts?

Hmm, Diamond Naturals Active Cat might meet your requirements. http://www.diamondpet.com/products/diamond_naturals/cats/dry_food/active_cat/

Chicken meal, ground rice, chicken fat (preserved with mixed tocopherols), natural chicken flavor, flaxseed, powdered cellulose, sodium bisulfate, salmon oil (a source of DHA), fish meal, potassium chloride, DL-methionine, choline chloride, taurine, dried chicory root, zinc proteinate, vitamin E supplement, niacin, manganese proteinate, copper proteinate, zinc sulfate, manganese sulfate, copper sulfate, thiamine mononitrate, vitamin A supplement, biotin, potassium iodide, calcium pantothenate, riboflavin, pyridoxine hydrochloride, vitamin D supplement, folic acid

This thread has helped me a lot thanks guys.

I was think too from the other threads that Nutro products are the came as Science Diet. High priced but no better than Purnia. True?

I am going out and buying Evo. Found a pet store that sells this kind of pet food.

For Christmas, my cats recieved Wellness canned duck. No rave reviews, sorry. That is why I call my gang the junk food junkies. 

Thank you everyone on here, you inspire.

Yeah, I don't like the nutro dry as they bump their protein quite a bit with corn.   Their complete care wet foods are good though.  

 

Evo is a good quality food, very much recommended, but again it has peas in it.   

 

Kibbles require some kind of binder to make it cohesive unless they cold form, so they are all going to have at least a little bit of rice or potato or pea or other starch so it doesn't just crumble and fall apart.   You may have to just feed an all wet diet, they still use veggie binders too, but rather than a starch they usually just use a vegetable gelling agent with guar and carrageenan and stuff like that.