Would I feed my cats “Heart to Tail”? Not if I could afford Pure Being. If I couldn’t I wouldn’t worry about my cats health being significantly reduced any more that I would worry about my own being reduced by eating foods that were cheaper but harder to pre-digest (cook). Heart to Tail is more knowledgeably constituted than the commercial pet foods available in the 1960s. I’d worry about dangerous contamination. Aldi has one of the best safety records among pet food marketers.

It is true that cats have idiosyncratic biology among mammals. It is true that cats evolved to get their essential nutrient by hunting and
killing animals and eating their raw meat. It has not been scientifically proven that this is the optimal diet for cats. What we do know is that cats require certain amino cases and compounds that most mammals can synthesize but cats can not. One source of these is meat. Another is human ingenuity.

There is a lot of misinformation based on half-truths about food and nutrition, for humans and their pets, mostly second hand opinions biased by “common sense” not based in science or longitudinal studies. The most common misconception is that living organisms respond radically different to proteins, lipids, carbohydrates, amino acids, minerals and vitamins based on where those come from. Human nutrition which has been studied the most intensively of all has seen radical changes in beliefs about what a healthy diet is. Nutrition of animals has had much less research. Most of what we “know” about pet food is consensus belief, not facts.

Don’t accept second hand opinions as facts.

Thanks for pointing that out. I also want to know how the 3oz can cat food rates

Just take it back to Aldi. Their refund policy is top notch.

Thanks for sharing, Beth! If you’re going to feed your cat dry food, offering some wet food along with it is a great idea. Glad to hear it’s working wonders for his coat!