There are too many cat food brands on the market, with hundreds or thousands of them, and the prices are even more amazing, ranging from 1 yuan per pound to 70-80 yuan per pound!
Currently, 90% of cat shovelers buy cat food, the way to distinguish the quality of cat food makes me laugh and cry because their methods are a bit simple and crude. The cat shovelers generally believe that the more expensive the cat food is, the better.
But how expensive is it? The price of top-quality cat food is even as high as more than 100 yuan per catty! Therefore, when buying cat food, you can’t say it wrong or right when using the price to measure the quality of cat food. You can only say that you have incomplete understanding.
If you want to see whether a cat food is good or bad, in addition to referring to the price of cat food, cat food owners also have to look at the cat food formula table, because cat food prices merchants can mark the cat food price at will, but cat food formula table merchants dare not mark it randomly.
Before teaching everyone to learn how to read the cat food recipe table, you need to understand three questions:
First: What is a cat food recipe table and why do you need to read the cat food recipe table to distinguish the quality of cat food.
Second: How to classify cat food on the market?
Third: What is the natural dietary structure of cats?
What is a cat food recipe list? Why look at the cat food recipe list?
Cat food formula table: that is, what materials are used when making this cat food and what proportion of each material is. Manufacturers generally write down the raw materials and proportions used for this cat food in the lower part of each bag of cat food, which requires the shovelers to carefully search for.
As for why you need to look at the cat food recipe list, this question is easy to answer. The shovelers can grab a handful of cat food. Everyone will find that all cat food is almost the same. Just by looking at the appearance of the cat food, you can't tell what raw materials this cat food is made of!
Therefore, if you want to know what raw materials are used for this cat food and whether the raw materials are qualified, you can only look at the cat food formula table. How to classify cat food on the
?
No matter how different the price of cat food is, no matter how diverse the brands of cat food are! The cat shovelers only need to know that all the cat food on the market will only be divided into two types!
The first type is called natural grain: natural grain means that this cat food is made of fresh meat or fresh grain, and then preserved with natural vegetable oil. We can understand it as natural grain can also be eaten by people.
The second is called commercial grain: The meaning of commercial grain is that this cat food is made of meat powder, which is also called 4D meat powder.
4D: Dead died, Diseased was sick, Dying was dying, and Disabled disabled animals, also known as 4D meat powder.
So when you look at the raw materials of commercial grain and natural grain, you will immediately make a decision. What I want to tell you is that commercial grain is not the worst cat food, and there are cat food that is worse than commercial grain. What is the natural dietary structure of cats?
After understanding what cat food formula table is and the classification of cat food, let’s learn about the dietary structure of cats.
From a biological point of view, cats are pure carnivorous animals. If you want healthy cat food, the proportion of cat food should be as follows: 52% protein, 46% fat, and 2% carbohydrates.
The protein and fat here can be obtained from meat, and carbohydrates can be obtained from food. In other words, if you want the cat to be healthy, every meal of the cat must be 98% meat!
This is because as carnivores, cats have a particularly high digestibility of carnivorous and animal viscera, even up to 90%-95%.
However, relatively speaking, cats have very low utilization rate of grains for grains. Cereals and grains are carbohydrates. Cats have only 2% of their own requirements for carbohydrates. If a cat food has less meat and more food, then the cat will have soft stools, smelly stools, and allergies in the intestines after eating it.
At the same time, this is also the essential reason why cat food is much more expensive than dog food. Dog food can have mixed meat and food, but a good cat food must have more meat! Meat is many times more expensive than food, so cat food on the market is more expensive than dog food.
How to view the cat food formula list?
Based on the above information, we can conclude that we look at the formula ingredients list of a cat food. If its food accounts for the majority, it means that this cat food is unqualified and not worth buying. Cats will have intestinal problems after eating it for a long time.
If this cat food meat powder accounts for the majority, it means that this cat food is commercial food, and it also means that this cat food can meet the daily needs of cats and is initially qualified.
If fresh meat accounts for the majority of a cat food, it means that this cat food is good cat food, and it is natural food, and it is also the most suitable cat food for cats to eat for a long time.