The Blue Buffalo Basics that I am feeding has deboned turkey and turkey meal as the first two ingredients. However, it also contains peas, pea starch, pea fiber (why so pea heavy?), potatoes, caramel, salt, kelp, yucca, carrots, barley grass, alfalfa meal, oil of rosemary, dried parsley, turmeric, chicory root, blueberries, and cranberries as some of the ingredients (not in that order). I know that the caramel is probably used for coloring, but could it hurt my cats? Also, I think that the cranberries are supposed to help prevent UTIs. Do you think they really work? Is salt as bad for cats as it is for people? I don't know much about the other ingredients. Do they have any nutritional value? Are they harmful? My adult cat does great on this food (no more puking), but I am still trying to "firm up" my kitten's stools (for months on several different foods) Would any of these ingredients stop that from happening? I recently started feeding the grain-free turkey version of Blue Basics to see if eliminating rice and oatmeal will help. I'm mixing it with the Fish and Potato and trying to get them off of the fish completely.
I know that some of you will tell me to feed canned, but as I have said on other threads, the vet has advised me not to feed canned for now. She doesn't want to keep switching the kittens's food but try one kind at a time and see if it helps, although she is pretty sure that diet is not an issue.
I would just like to know your opinions about some of the ingredients in the food that I am currently giving my cats.
I know that some of you will tell me to feed canned, but as I have said on other threads, the vet has advised me not to feed canned for now. She doesn't want to keep switching the kittens's food but try one kind at a time and see if it helps, although she is pretty sure that diet is not an issue.
I would just like to know your opinions about some of the ingredients in the food that I am currently giving my cats.