Thank you so much for this educative and thoughtful reply. It gives me a lot of confidence in your website when I recognise the integrity of the research and understanding with which you have demonstrated in your response. I find it incredibly frustrating when I visit my vet and am “sold” solutions that I am well aware are not backed by current research and this is a good example of this kind of issue. Thankyou

You can offer constructive criticism without being rude. Didn’t your parents teach you how to do that?

You have to understand that vets are vets. They study medicine and diseases for animals and not nutrition. I trust a vet in regards to diagnosing an illness and resolving it with meds but not 100% in the diet/ nutrition department. With that being said, it doesn’t apply to all vets of course. It only applies to the ones that don’t research on nutrition.

Thank you for the comment and also for all your work and all the information here.
Is it high in relative to the average in dry foods?
In monge food, for example, the calories from carbs is, according to your data, about 1\3 of the calories as opposed to about 27% in pro plan; yet you have monge a higher grade on ingredients and you didn’t mention there anything about high carb content – I’m just trying to understand the context of that remark, specifically in a food which seems to have relatively (not just to monge, but also to other foods that you recommended) low carbs

Relative to other dry foods, the carbohydrate content is a little bit lower, but it’s nonetheless higher-carb than we’d consider to be ideal for cats.

Slightly lower carbohydrate content than other dry foods

Cons

High carbohydrate content”
– can you please explain how these 2 comments go together – is there high or low carb content? – your caloric analysis seems to go with the low

As a tip, Ziwi Peak foods are super high calorie, it’s double the kcals per oz as most other wet foods. If you feed 100% wet food or make up the oz by mixing in water, you probably don’t need as much as you’d think. It helps justify the cost

Hi Carol, thanks for the comment! I haven’t gone in-depth on LiveClear yet, but we’re adding a review of it to the schedule so that you can learn more about this product. For now, my initial impression is that the food is not nutritionally excellent, and I wouldn’t recommend it unless allergen reduction is your top priority. It does reduce the allergens in your cat’s saliva by about 47% on average by week 3 of daily feeding. While I’m not sure how that effect is altered by the food being only half of your cat’s daily food intake, we do know that Purina recommends that the food is your cat’s primary food, advising that other foods be limited to small treats.

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