Synthetic-Free

I've looked around the web for ideas on making my own cat food and most/all include the addition of synthetics (supplements).  Most supplements are produced, or contain ingredients that originate, in China, Taiwan, etc.  My dogs have been synthetic free for years and are doing great.  Does anyone have a synthetic free recipe?  

Have you checked out Hare Today? They have Alnutrin supplements.
"Ingredients: Egg yolk powder, calcium carbonate, taurine, sodium chloride, potassium chloride, vitamin E, iron amino acid chelate, copper gluconate, manganese amino acid chelate, zinc oxide, potassium iodide, vitamin D3, vitamin B12, thiamine hydrochloride.

Contains no preservatives, sugar, yeast, starch, artificial flavors or colors.
* * * Manufactured in Arizona."

Hare Today's customer service department is very responsive to emails.

I fed prey model raw and do not supplement, though that is a personal decision on my part. The point being, I believe if you can feed your cat/dog a wide enough variety of proteins and organs (including the hard to find ones like pancreas), then I don't believe supplementation is necessary from a nutritional standpoint.

Thanks Ritz, but all of those ingredients (except yolk powder) are produced in a test tube.  Our animals really can survive & thrive without test tube nutrients.  Imagine if all the chem labs were no longer able to produce these synthetics.  Would dogs & cats all go extinct?  

Is our food supply so compromised that it can't support the health of a cat (or dog)?  Vitamins, minerals, amino acids, fatty acids are all available in the foods we eat.  Why do we feel the need to add synthetic ones?  Have we been conditioned by the pet food industry to believe that?  

I'd like to find people who have been feeding a truly natural diet and are willing to share their recipes.

Why is a variety of proteins necessary?  All the main ones provide all the essential amino acids.  What do the rare organs supply that the heart/liver do not?

Well, the pancreas supplies pancreatic enzymes. . .not strictly necessary but beneficial. In the wild they eat all the organs so we don't really know what they're missing if we don't feed all the organs as well.

Remember that a whole rodent is nature's perfect cat food. So the closest you can make the diet to the nutrition provided by a whole rodent, the better.

A variety is best because, again, we don't know what they're missing if we don't. If the diet is properly balanced, no, a variety of proteins isn't strictly necessary, but is beneficial.

Cats are obligate carnivores which makes them a litle more complicated to feed than dogs. Dogs are opportunistic scavengers, who developed eating human scraps, so they are much more flexible in their nutritional needs. Cats have always hunted so their systems haven't adapted to human food, so their dietary needs are pretty rigid.

I know Ritz is feeding a prey-model raw diet without added supplements. I think everybody else here uses some supplements, but if you go to the raw subforum maybe you could find someone else who does it that way.

The only supplement I do give Ritz is quail eggs (sourced from a local farm).