Iams Proactive Health Original
Ingredient list
Chicken, Corn Meal, Chicken By-Product Meal, Corn Grits, Poultry By-Product Meal, Dried Beet Pulp, Natural Flavor............
Ingredients go by weight, so the 1st several items are important as they form bulk of the content by weight....
Chicken - Desired with good nutritional protein value. But as it is with normal water content which can form much of the weight. Once dehydrated & processed to form kibbles. Could be very little chicken in reality.
Corn meal - filler with no nutrition protein value to cats. High carbohydrate content which is harmful. Used to artificially boost protein level. Hard to digest and possible allergy causing.
Chicken by-product meal. - Composed of dehydrated left-overs of chicken like claws, beaks, feathers, bones and whatever unfit for consumption. Contributes to analysed protein count. But completely non-nutritional protein.
Corn grits - As corn above
Poulty by product meal - as Chicken by-product meal above. Other fowls.
Note. Bulk of the ingredients is fowl by-products( chicken & poultry) & corn (corn & grits) . Purpose of splitting them up in the list is only to give the impression they don't form the main components. But when added together, the real composition by content is probably all types of corn, all types of fowl by-products, with chicken much further down the list.
Analysis
32% Protein of which much is low quality & non-nutritional.
33% High Carb level which is harmful for a cat
15% fat - somewhat low for a cat & dubious quality
In the wild, your cat would be eating a high protein, high-moisture, meat-based diet, with a moderate level of fat and with only approximately 3-5 percent of her diet consisting of carbohydrates.
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