Sheba Cans?

nullentropy

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So, I was at Target and I saw some Sheba food, and the ingredients looked okay so I picked a few cans up. Here are the ingredients for the chicken and beef pate in natural juices:

Beef, Meat Broth, Meat By-Products, Poultry By-Products, Beef Liver, Chicken, Minerals (Calcium Carbonate, Potassium Chloride, Magnesium Sulfate, Zinc Sulfate, Iron Sulfate, Manganese Sulfate, Potassium Iodide, Copper Sulfate), Natural Flavor, Guar Gum, Added Color, Sodium Tripolyphosphate, Fish Oil (Preserved with Mixed Tocopherols), Vitamins (Choline Chloride, Thiamine Mononitrate [Vitamin B1], Vitamin E Supplement, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride [Vitamin B6], Vitamin D3 Supplement, Folic Acid, Menadione Sodium Bisulfite Complex [Source of Vitamin K Activity]), DL-Methionine, Salt, Taurine.

Here are the ingredients for the chicken entree in gravy:

Chicken Broth, Chicken, Meat By-Products, Chicken Liver, Natural Flavor, Starch, Added Color, Fish Oil (Preserved with Mixed Tocopherols), Minerals (Potassium Chloride, Magnesium Sulfate, Zinc Sulfate, Iron Sulfate, Manganese Sulfate, Potassium Iodide, Copper Sulfate),Tetra Potassium Pyrophosphate, Salt, Vitamins (Choline Chloride, Thiamine Mononitrate [Vitamin B1], Vitamin E Supplement, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride [Vitamin B6], Vitamin D3 Supplement, Folic Acid, Menadione Sodium Bisulfite Complex [Source of Vitamin K Activity]), Sodium Tripolyphosphate, Xanthan Gum, Taurine, DL-Methionine.

The only ingredients I didn't really like are Starch and Added Color. Other than that it seems like a decent food. I'd be feeding it in rotation with commercial raw and other canned foods. Am I wrong that this is a good food? I searched for information about Sheba on this site, but only found info about the tubs. These are the little 3oz cans. Is it okay to feed my cats this?
 

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By all accounts, they are very similar to the Fancy Feast classic pates, so they are pretty decent.
 
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What are the concerns with the by-products? Does that really include 4D (dead, dying, diseased, defective) meat?
 

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I love the Sheba and so do my boys.  Very decent food for decent price.  Meat as first ingredient, no carrageenan, no grain. But I only use the non-fish pates.
What are the concerns with the by-products? Does that really include 4D (dead, dying, diseased, defective) meat?
 I am of the understanding that only rendered products can have 4-D meat, and that only dry food has rendered products. So therefore, canned food by-products should not contain 4-D
 
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