Merrick Before Grain
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Merrick Before Grain
Looking at the ingredients, they give cats 3 different types of meat within the first 4 ingredients. Potato is quite high as the main carb, which is fine. They also include sweet potato as the 2nd carb.
Salmon oil is put in for the Omega fatty acids and heart health, and egg is included for bonus protein.
One thing I love about this food are the fruits: blueberries and acai berries. The acai berries are purportedly very good as an antioxident. It’s also kind of neat to say it’s in your cat’s food.
It isn’t cheap, but again, most good products aren’t. It’s highly recommended if you can find it.
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What’s good about this food….
Many high quality meat sources, potatoes, eggs, salmon oil, acai berries.
….and what’s not so good.
Nothing to mention.
Ingredients:
Salmon Deboned, Chicken Meal, Potato Dehydrated, Turkey Meal, Chicken Fat (preserved with mixed tocopherols – a source of Natural Vitamin E), Sweet Potato Dehydrated, Dried Egg, Natural Flavor, Yeast Culture, Dicalcium Phosphate, Lysine, Sea Salt, Alfalfa, Salmon Oil, Choline Chloride, Acai Berry Freeze-Dried, Blueberry Dried, Yucca Schidigera Extract, Rosemary Extract, Taurine, Zinc Amino Acid Complex, Chondroitin Sulfate, Glucosamine Hydrochloride, Chicory Root, Marigold Extract, Lactobacillus Plantarum, Enterococcus Faecium, Lactobacillus Casei, Lactobacillus Acidophilus, Iron Amino Acid Complex, Vitamin E Supplement, Manganese Amino Acid Complex, Vitamin A Supplement, Vitamin B12 Supplement, Copper Amino Acid Complex, d-Calcium Pantothenate, Vitamin D3, Niacin, Lecithin, Riboflavin Supplement, Biotin, Ethylenediamine Dihydriodide, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Cobalt Amino Acid Complex, Folic Acid, Thiamine Mononitrate, Sodium Selenite.
Cookee loves the canned chicken pate. I adopted her in Aug and was told to give her Purina canned and kibbles. She ate the canned but never the kibbles and consequently, every day I threw out 1/4 cup kibbles. I decided to check the ratings of cat food and liked what I read about Merrick. I bought a few cans and a bag of kibbles. She devoured everything just like she hadn’t eaten in weeks! Of course, she had. However, I have been purchasing the Merrick Chicken Pate and the kibbles and I now have a happy cat. I’m happy too because I am not wasting food.