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Many shovelers ask me, how to choose canned food? So today I will share with you how to choose canned food, from how to distinguish between staple food cans and snack cans, the nutritional composition of cans, raw materials, etc. once to explain the selection method of canned food, the content is not short, but after reading you are super powerful, you can not finish the collection first.
Distinguish between staple food jars and snack cans
■Look at the tank:
Imported tanks, you can look at the labels on the tanks.
The can is marked with "complete food for cat" is a staple food can that meets the nutritional needs of cats.
The can is marked with "complementary food for cats" indicating that it is a snack can.
■Look at the texture of the can:
The texture of most staple food cans is meat puree mousse-like, this is because the process of staple food cans is to crush all the ingredients, add nutrients to mix the products after processing, so most of them are meat puree, but it is not excluded that there are a small number of staple food cans that are biased and are meat lumps; and snack cans have different forms such as meat lumps or meat filaments.
Look at the nutritional needs of cats from the ingredients
■Protein:
As a natural meat eater, cats need protein and fat in food to provide energy, it can be said that protein is the most important nutrient in the nutrition needs of cats, and in the daily diet, at least more than half should be high-quality animal protein, that is, high protein!
■Fat:
In addition to protein, fat is also a very important source of energy.
In addition, fat also contains a lot of fat-soluble vitamins, such as vitamins A, D, E, K, these, cat's daily diet, calories from fat should account for at least 20%-40% of the total calories, generally I recommend is medium fat.
■Taurine:
Taurine is an essential amino acid in the cat's diet, unlike dogs, cats themselves can not make enough taurine, so like dry food, staple food cans must be supplemented with enough taurine. Long-term lack of taurine can lead to myocardial dilation, infertility, miscarriage, and blindness in cats, and taurine needs to account for 0.1%-0.2% of the daily diet.
■Carbohydrates:
As a mandatory carnivore, cats hardly need carbohydrates, dry food can not avoid carbohydrates because of the need for starch to be puffed, and canning is a cooking process, no additional starch is required, eating too much carb may lead to obesity and diabetes in cats.
■Moisture:
Water is the source of life, is the most important and basic nutrients, per kg of cats need about 240ml of water per day.
In summary, the ideal diet for cats should be at least half of animal protein (not less than 45%), moderate fat (25-45%), very little or no carbs (no more than 10%), very little or no dietary fiber (no more than 2%), and sufficient water content (not less than 63%), and the most reasonable ratio of calcium and phosphorus is 1%: 0.8% or 1.2% to 1%.
This staple food jar and dry food are almost the same, will you look at the ingredient list?
Look at the nutritional needs of cats from the ingredient list
■Protein source:
Animal protein is superior to plant protein, and famous is better than unknown.
A good staple food can, the first place in the ingredient list should be fresh meat, and there is a name of meat, such as chicken, beef, as far as possible to add grain, do not contain gum. Because the digestion and absorption rate of animal protein cats reaches 90% to 95%, while the absorption rate of plant protein cats is only 60% to 85%.
■Fat source:
Famous is better than nameless, for example, cans that indicate the clear source of fat such as "salmon oil" and "chicken fat" are far better than those that generally label "animal fat", because "animal fat" can refer to any source of animal fat, or even recycled "D G oil".
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Finally, I want to tell you that the staple food can can be fed directly as a staple food, but the pure canned feeding is really quite expensive, a cat pure can feeding, at least 500, for most people is not a small cost, it is recommended that you can also staple food can + dry food, segmented interval feeding.
In addition, when choosing canned food, it is also important to make choices according to your own budget and cost performance, after all, raising cats is a happy thing, as long as you choose the best within your budget, you really don't have to buy the most expensive.
Happy things in life
But a cat and a dog, a tea and a meal
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