As we all know, cats are obligate carnivores and can't absorb protein, fat, or anything else from non-meat sources. Their liver and kidneys can't process many components of plants, fruits, or vegetables, some of which are outright toxic to cats but dogs can eat them easily.
But most premium foods add silly ingredients that, if not outright harmful, certainly haven't been foods cats evolved eating. Even the occasional nutrients from the stomach content of their prey is pre-digested before a feral cat would eat the mouse.
Examples include flaxseed, which veterinarians say cats can't absorb omega fatty acids from, cranberries (high in benzoic acid, which is toxic to cats, who knows how much is in the food or effects from being fed it daily?), blueberries, carrots and sweet potato AND additional beta-carotene when cats can't convert beta-carotene to Vitamin A (and a good thing, or the cats might get way too much Vitamin A), peas which are as useless as soy except for bulk and have such high protein content that they might throw off protein analysis, then.parsley, tumeric, oil of rosemary, etc..none with proven safety records for daily feeding but make the food seem healthy, well-balanced, and tasty to a human palate.
Ideally I would like to find a premium food, as in made with better meat sources and better meat and marine fats, with the bulking agent being (obviously cooked) white potato, which is indigestible but has little vegetable protein to throw off the protein balance, then the supplemental vitamins and taurine, and leaving out the silly additions that are useless at best and potentially harmful fed long-term.
Any suggestions?
But most premium foods add silly ingredients that, if not outright harmful, certainly haven't been foods cats evolved eating. Even the occasional nutrients from the stomach content of their prey is pre-digested before a feral cat would eat the mouse.
Examples include flaxseed, which veterinarians say cats can't absorb omega fatty acids from, cranberries (high in benzoic acid, which is toxic to cats, who knows how much is in the food or effects from being fed it daily?), blueberries, carrots and sweet potato AND additional beta-carotene when cats can't convert beta-carotene to Vitamin A (and a good thing, or the cats might get way too much Vitamin A), peas which are as useless as soy except for bulk and have such high protein content that they might throw off protein analysis, then.parsley, tumeric, oil of rosemary, etc..none with proven safety records for daily feeding but make the food seem healthy, well-balanced, and tasty to a human palate.
Ideally I would like to find a premium food, as in made with better meat sources and better meat and marine fats, with the bulking agent being (obviously cooked) white potato, which is indigestible but has little vegetable protein to throw off the protein balance, then the supplemental vitamins and taurine, and leaving out the silly additions that are useless at best and potentially harmful fed long-term.
Any suggestions?
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Do you want kibble, wet/canned or some form of raw food? Also, which country are you in? For example, I can help with UK foods - and European ones to a certain extent, but have little knowledge about foods in the US or Canada 
