Ash question

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What's an average amount of ash in pet food? What's unhealthy/too high?
Also: I asked this question before but I can't find it... what is an appropriate calcium/phosphorus ratio?
 
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I THINK what I read was that average ash in dry food is about 7%, and for wet foods no more than 3%?  And I think the calcium to phosphorous ratio i supposed to be about 1.3:1?
 
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l got this off felinenutrition.net  

The acceptable range for cats is from 1.17:1 to 1.4:1 which is the range found in small prey animals such as mice, rats and rabbits (rat carcass analysis
 
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