
We don’t need grain free. We want carbohydrate free!
Ingredients of our REAL grain free cat food would read as follows: Chicken meat, chicken hearts, chicken bones, chicken liver, eggs, salmon oil, taurine, Vitamin B, E.
Did you notice how short the list is? That is how any cat food ingredient list should be. Most, however, take up lines and lines in the fine print.
Bad news about this ingredient list, it’d be very expensive if prepared commercially (yet it costs about the same as medium quality dry food, when prepared at home). And high price is not something that sells well.
But how do you achieve grain free recipe, without making its price skyrocketing? Commercial cat food producers have several tricks up in their sleeve.
They have not simply taken the grain out, they have chosen to replace them.
Most common choice is potato or soy. They are not grain, but they serve the same purpose as grain in the food. They, first act like a binding agent in dry foods, but most importantly, they serve as filler, so the food costs less per can.
And yet, while replacing grain with potato genuinely gives the right to label the cat food as “grain free”, you have to remember, cat’s need potato as much as they need grain. None of it. Always, check the ingredients, and don’t believe slogans.