Hi
Since there are so many knowledgeable people on here I'm hoping someone can help me out re this food
http://www.almonatureuk.com/
I've recently discovered it and tried a couple of flavours of the wet food on one of my cats and he loved them. The main issue is that it says on the tins it is a complete food. However, the ingredients list doesn't show any added vitamins or minerals. I was under the impression that cooking destroyed most nutrients which is why they are added back in to complete foods. I emailed the company about this and got the following reply
I don't want to stop feeding this to my cat but if it's not complete I'm going to have to be careful about how often he has it (not that he'd be having it every day anyway as it's expensive). He does have a small amount of complete dry food each day too but I'm not sure that's enough to give him all the nutrients he needs.
Since there are so many knowledgeable people on here I'm hoping someone can help me out re this food
http://www.almonatureuk.com/
I've recently discovered it and tried a couple of flavours of the wet food on one of my cats and he loved them. The main issue is that it says on the tins it is a complete food. However, the ingredients list doesn't show any added vitamins or minerals. I was under the impression that cooking destroyed most nutrients which is why they are added back in to complete foods. I emailed the company about this and got the following reply
I'm not sure what to make of that - can someone with more knowledge of nutrition than myself tell me if that makes sense? If you click on the view products link on the site it does list the calories, taurine, phosphorous and calcium content of each food, but I don't know what the recommended amounts of these things are.To clarify the labelling to you Almo Nature cat tins are a complete food and contain natural vitamins and minerals, yes some are lost by the cooking process but we use the cooking broth as the preservative so anything lost to the cooking water is still retained. Our cooking process is also more gentle than most of our competitors to try and avoid any unnecessary product degradation.
As with humans though, we always recommend feeding a balanced diet to ensure the correct vitamin and mineral intake, as there are higher levels of natural taurine in beef and fish. We do not add any artificial additives because in some cases it is the additives which can cause some allergies etc in our pets.
I don't want to stop feeding this to my cat but if it's not complete I'm going to have to be careful about how often he has it (not that he'd be having it every day anyway as it's expensive). He does have a small amount of complete dry food each day too but I'm not sure that's enough to give him all the nutrients he needs.