Meow Mix
Original Choice
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ChickenSummary
Meow Mix Original Choice is a dry cat food formulated for all life stages, offering a blend of chicken, turkey, salmon, and ocean fish flavors. It provides a balanced diet with a minimum of 30% crude protein and 11% crude fat, supporting cats’ overall health. With its blend of animal protein sources and added vitamins and minerals, it aims to meet the dietary needs of both adult cats and kittens.
Pros:
- Contains 30% crude protein, primarily from animal sources like chicken by-product meal and salmon meal, promoting muscle maintenance.
- Fortified with essential vitamins and minerals, including vitamin E, calcium, and phosphorus, for overall health.
- Provides taurine, crucial for cats’ vision and heart health.
Cons:
- Includes whole ground corn and soybean meal as primary ingredients, which are less desirable for some cat owners due to their lower nutritional value compared to meat-based proteins.
- Contains artificial colors like Yellow 6, Red 40, and Blue 2, which some owners may prefer to avoid.
- Uses by-products such as chicken and turkey by-product meal, which may be considered lower-quality protein sources.
Nutrition
Ingredients
- Whole Ground Corn
- Soybean Meal
- Chicken By-product Meal
- Corn Gluten Meal
- Beef Tallow (preserved With Mixed Tocopherols)
- Animal Digest
- Turkey By-product Meal
- Salmon Meal
- Ocean Fish Meal
- Phosphoric Acid
- and also:
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Why this score?
- Low protein content-16
- 40.9% carbohydrates of combination C-36
- Soy ingredient appears before meat-9
- Whole by-product main meat ingredient-4
- By-product supplement meat ingredient at 6-7th place-1
- Food colors-2
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How the score is calculated?
The actual calculation of the score is based on sophisticated and advanced algorithm that takes into account multiple parameters.
To simplify the explanation, the calculation is based on three main criteria:
(1) Amount of protein (more is better)
(2) Amount of carbohydrates (less is better)
(3) Quality and source of ingredients.
Based on that 3 main criteria, 9 score calculation rules are used to compare the different foods.
One major assumption is that the closer an ingredient is to the top of the ingredient list, the greater its relative weight and contribution to the food.
In general, cat food is composed of protein, fats, carbohydrates, fibers, vitamins, and minerals.
Protein is the most important component in a cat's diet, and cats primarily get their protein from animal meat.
Fat is a primary source of energy and essential fatty acids.
Carbohydrates are controversial in a cat's diet, as cats are obligate carnivores and typically consume very few carbohydrates.
Fibers play an important role in digestion and food absorption, and vitamins and minerals are essential for different organism functions.
Dry matter values are used to compare the amount of nutrients in different cat foods. This means that moisture is excluded from the equation to provide a more accurate comparison.
Putting all of these and more into a formula results in a product score.
The maximum score a cat food can receive is 100. Points are added or removed based on the score calculation rules.
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