There are two main types of canned cats, one is canned staple food, and the other is canned snacks.
The role of canned staple food is the same as that of cat food, which is eaten in large quantities for a long time as a staple food, which has a higher water content than the benefit of dry food, and the disadvantage is that it is not easy to preserve after opening and the price is slightly higher.
The requirements of canned staple food are relatively [excellent], after all, it is a staple food that has been eaten for a long time and cannot be malnourished.
And canned snacks are not so much nutritionally balanced, mainly on a meow master to eat happily, to meet the desire to pick the mouth and hunger.
The style of canned snacks is generally like this:
Seller shows are often like this, and they look pretty good.
But human beings I often open after this is such a style of painting...
Am I being naïve? What the hell is that flesh-and-blood thing?!
There are three main sources of canned snacks: domestic, Japanese and Thai.
The domestic department does not need to be pickpocketed, after all, cat food has not yet figured it out...
And Japanese cans are often bloody painting style that can't see what it is... Forgive me, I am a pampered and freedom-loving dog, pick a can to see what it looks like inside, look like such a dark dish, sorry, I really can't get my hands on it.
For example, if a human cooks a dish, even if the cooking technology is rotten, as long as the dish is not burned into a paste black without full black, you can still see what the raw materials are. However, if you refer to the processing method of dumpling filling, and mix the ingredients, you can't see whether the raw material is really good or bad.
The same is true of canning, and it is always right to be suspicious of what the raw material is. Although it is only a snack, there should always be a few more hearts for imported things.
The painting style of Thai snack cans should be fresher, and you can see what the raw materials are:
Can be seen with pieces of meat and shredded meat.
However, the difference between the snack can of this style and the snack jar of the previous style is not three pieces and five pieces.
Blood paste cans, responsibly speaking, 5 yuan can buy 170g of large cans, Taobao grab a large handful, and even buy 3 yuan a can.
And can you see the canned raw materials, sorry. 5 yuan can only buy 85g of small cans at most, and the price will only go up, not down.
Take a look at The syborg, thai canned snacks that have been sought after by shovelers:
The price is about 7.5 yuan to 10 yuan, and there is a discount on more buying, but it will not exceed the bottom line of the price of 5 yuan to buy 85g.
About within the acceptable range, if converted into a municipal system: it is about 44 yuan to 58 yuan.
Well, it's about the price of a pound of lamb.
The main ingredient in these canned snacks is fish, especially tuna (tuna).
While this fish does not exist in the natural recipes of cats, it has excellent palatability for cats.
Just like humans love spicy noodles, cats love to eat tuna, and there's nothing wrong with that.
Fish is good, cats love to eat, and the raw materials look good; but there is one thing that cann't be wrapped around the snack, that is, glue.
A wide variety of edible gums, including but not limited to: multi-grain gum, carrageenan, locust bean gum, guar gum and agar.
Edible glue in food processing plays a role in thickening, viscosity, adhesion, gel formation, hardness, brittleness, tightness, stable emulsification, suspension, etc., so that food to obtain the need for a variety of shapes and hard, soft, brittle, viscous, thick and other tastes, so it is often called food thickener, tackifier, gelling agent, stabilizer, suspension agent, colloid, etc. [Citation: Hu Guohua. Functional food [ m ] . Beijing: Chemical Industry Press, 2004: 1~329]
Edible gum as a food additive is beyond reproach, as long as it is not too much. But this standard is for people.
The addition of food glue to meat products can not only improve the edible quality of meat products, such as color, flavor, texture, water retention and other functional characteristics, but also reduce production costs, with huge market application prospects and actual production value. Carrageenan applied in chopped high-temperature ham sausage can improve product texture and sliceability, enhance meat protein gel, improve water retention, reduce oil production and other advantages. Xanthan gum is widely used in the processing of various meat products, and the use of xanthan gum in meat products such as square ham, round ham, lunch meat, red sausage can significantly improve the tenderness, color and flavor of the product, and can also improve the water retention of meat products, thereby improving the yield rate. Modified starch containing more branches is added to meat products, which not only enhances its gel strength, improves tissue structure, enhances water retention, improves yield, reduces production costs, but also prevents oil and water seepage [Citation: Li Kaixiong, Liu Chengjiang, He Jialiang. Edible gum and its application in meat products. Meat Research. 2007, (7)].
Canners also want to make money, so they must add edible glue.
However, everyone knows that cats do not know anything about the flexible pure carnivores, and their digestion and absorption of water-resistant compounds is pitifully weak.
Many shovelers will say that my cat has diarrhea as soon as he eats so-and-so canned food.
It may be that the quality control of the canned food is not passed, and it may also be that the meat source is unqualified, but it may also be that the allergy caused by the gastrointestinal carbohydrate intolerance of the meow owner.
If the meow master carbohydrate intolerance, try to eat as little or do not eat canned snacks containing edible gum, although eating does not die meow, but the soft stool is not a good experience for people or cats.
When choosing cat food, the starch is regarded as a flood of beasts to avoid, why does it appear on the recipe of the snack can, and everyone calmly accepts it?
Sure enough, the iq of consumers is still not very good at manufacturers and sellers...
Okay, now for a canned snack of conscience.
It has nothing to do with any cat food manufacturer canned food manufacturer, it is canned food that humans eat.
Human food is always more advanced than pet food, and the main good meat of tuna is first satisfied with human appetite before sharing it with pet food.
Oh, this guy who doesn't look good:
It is also made in Thailand, but the style of painting of the contents is like this
Chunks of meat, not minced meat and minced meat that why not eat minced meat.
Moreover, without the addition of a little edible gum, the ingredients are nothing more than the mineral water of the tuna.
Is there a super high protein content? That's 40 percent. Compared with the pet's snack canned poor 8%, 12% or so is a lot of conscience.
High in protein, low in fat, zero carbs, it's the perfect food for cats.
The sodium content is particularly gratifying, with a sodium content of only 93mg at 100g.
What is the concept of sodium 93mg? 100g of raw beef contains 75mg of sodium.
93 mg is only 18 mg more sodium than 75 mg, and the sodium content is negligible.
The price is also gratifying. The price of human canning is between 12.6 yuan and 15.8 yuan, a large can of 185 grams.
If you convert it into a municipal pound system: it is about 34 yuan to 42 yuan.
It is more cost-effective than Xibao, whose market price is between 44 yuan and 58 yuan, after all, Xibao's crude protein content is only 13%.
The comparison of 40% to 13% is probably the hanging level...
Also he meow a pound cheap 10 yuan soft sister coin.
Moreover, the quarantine standards and food safety standards for human consumption of canned food are much higher than the pet food standards. It's just two words to eat: rest assured.
So: Canned snacks are always fed, and the ones that are better are not so expensive.
So as not to let the cats go wild to steal salted fish.