Cat Food Ingredients Explained - By Products, Fillers, Grains, Meat Meals & Pulses

Описание: Are there really fillers in cat food? 🤔What if everything you think you know about “good” and “bad” cat food ingredients… is wrong? 👀

Cats are obligate carnivores 🥩Cats don’t eat grains in the wild 🌽Cats don’t eat corn, wheat and soy

🍽️Cat nutrition is a hot topic with many opinions. 😺 Dr. Ask, cat veterinarian, chats about ingredients (specifically, corn, wheat, pulses, meat, meat by-products and meat meals) and chats about what cats can and should be eating.

He also chats about raw diets, food allergies, ingredient lists, and how pet food marketing often oversimplifies complex nutrition science🎯 The goal of this video is to help you make informed, evidence-based decisions for your cat—without fear, guilt, or nutrition myths 🥫🐱

🕒 Video Chapters / Timeline
0:16 – How Cats Really Eat In The Wild
0:33 – Specific Ingredients – What Do You Think?
0:54 – Cats Are Obligate Carnivores! – What Does That Really Mean?
1:26 – The Cat Nutrition Debate
1:55 – How Many Calories Are In A Mouse?
2:43 – Corn
2:43 – Fact Or Myth? Cats Need Meat For All Required Nutrients
4:41 – Wheat
5:13 – How Many Cats Have A Gluten Allergy?
6:09 – Pulses
7:18 – Cats Do Not Eat Grains In The Wild!
7:38 – Meat
9:42 – Are Carrots A Good Source Of Vitamin A?
10:12 – Meat By-Products & Meat Meals
11:46 – Meat Meal
12:05 – By-Products
12:58 – Why Put By-Products & Meat Meats In Cat Food?
13:22 – Feathers!?
13:32 – Cat Nutrition Facts – CATS ARE CARNIVORES
14:27 – FILLERS!
15:13 – Ingredient List - What Really Matters
15:45 – Raw Diets
17:42 – OPINIONS…On Cat Nutrition
18:35 – Where The Focus Should Be On Cat Nutrition
19:19 – Real World Cat Nutrition

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Links & sources:
📌Grain-Free Diets for Dogs and Cats: An Updated Review Focusing on Nutritional Effects and Health Considerations: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles...

📌Feline avian influenza cases spark concerns – Cats are “exquisitely sensitive” to highly avian influenza virus, expert says: https://www.avma.org/news/feline-avia...

📌FDA Advisory: Do Not Feed Certain Lots of Darwin’s Natural Pet Products Pet Food Due to E. coli O157:H7 and Salmonella: https://www.fda.gov/animal-veterinary...

📌Analysis of the microbiota of raw commercial feline diets to prioritize food safety investigations: https://www.nature.com/articles/s4200...

📌Get the Facts! Raw Pet Food Diets can be Dangerous to You and Your Pet: https://www.fda.gov/animal-veterinary...

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