Thought on this new brand of cat food? "I and Love and You" from Boulder Colorado

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I remember seeing this brand and reading the ingredients list and deciding against it. I can't remember why, and I'm on my phone and can't open the pdf file. It was probably the veggies and fruit which are not necessary or desirable in cat food.
 

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It's got carageenan in their recipes and this ingredient is highly suspected for causing tumors in cats.
 
 

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I looked at the cans.  A combination of veg and fruits and carageenan would be a negative point for them. I also noticed a lot of different chlorides in it.
 
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I see they had tried to make a good food.  (If successfully is another question).  The food would be considered excellent  if it was a dry food, where many of these additions are necessary to keep everything together, if you dont want to use cereals like whey.

So they did a dry food in a water solution and canned it.

About the much chlorides. Common kitchen salt, is a chloride. They just have some other salts and electrolytes too, instead of having just natrium cloride as the only salt.

So this is sooner a plus.
It's got carageenan in their recipes and this ingredient is highly suspected for causing tumors in cats.
 
Oh?  Pity, carageenan has otherwise a good reputation, I thought.

But if not good for cats, so probably not good for humans either.     :(
 

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Oh?  Pity, carageenan has otherwise a good reputation, I thought.

But if not good for cats, so probably not good for humans either.     :(
 I see I took partly wrong.  I though Carageenan was another sort of Kelp or some other sea wood, containing lotsa of minerales and some nutrients.  Both Kelp and other "sea woods" are common in high end dry foods. (ie Kelp-sea wood or some other "sea wood" ).

Carrageenan do comes frow sea wood, so I wasnt totally in the blue, but it is a gelatine, used as an alternative to gelatines made from animals.  Which sounds good as far as it goes.  The problem is they discovered it could be harmful to animals - and probably humans too...   :(
 
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