Rank these canned foods!

I am close to a Petsmart and a Whole Foods, can get to a Petco and
Trader Joes. I can brood over prices and look for sales, and my cat can
decide the taste, but could you, the more experienced people here,
please rank the following canned food brands according to nutrition:

Fancy Feast
Pro Plan
Iams
Nutro
Science Diet
Nature's Recipe
Trader Joe's house brand
Whole Foods house brand

Trying to avoid the least and the most expensive.

"RPSinha" wrote in message
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I am close to a Petsmart and a Whole Foods, can get to a Petco and
Trader Joes. I can brood over prices and look for sales, and my cat can
decide the taste, but could you, the more experienced people here,
please rank the following canned food brands according to nutrition:

Fancy Feast
Pro Plan
Iams
Nutro
Science Diet
Nature's Recipe
Trader Joe's house brand
Whole Foods house brand

Trying to avoid the least and the most expensive.

Here's a link that will help if you're worried about CRF, but I don't know
if it will help with nutritional values:
http://webpages.charter.net/katkarma/canfood.htm

This one is by "Consumer Research, but I don't know if it will give you what
you're looking for:
http://www.consumersearch.com/www/fa...ood/index.html

And Phil P's "Max's House" web site is a font of good information on just
about anything feline - here's his take on feline nutrition:
http://www.maxshouse.com/feline_nutrition.htm

HTH!

Hugs,

CatNipped

On Oct 26, 4:49 pm, RPSinha wrote:
I am close to a Petsmart and a Whole Foods, can get to a Petco and
Trader Joes. I can brood over prices and look for sales, and my cat can
decide the taste, but could you, the more experienced people here,
please rank the following canned food brands according to nutrition:

I have not tried, nor do I have access to all these brands,
so there's no way I could rank these products.

My cat just eats Fancy Feast almost exclusively.
They have 50 flavors, and she's tried and likes them all.
I never feed her the same flavor twice in a row...as a matter
of fact, it's rare if she gets the same flavor in the same week.

She has had Iams a few times though.

On Oct 26, 2:49 pm, RPSinha wrote:
I am close to a Petsmart and a Whole Foods, can get to a Petco and
Trader Joes. I can brood over prices and look for sales, and my cat can
decide the taste, but could you, the more experienced people here,
please rank the following canned food brands according to nutrition:

Fancy Feast
Pro Plan
Iams
Nutro
Science Diet
Nature's Recipe
Trader Joe's house brand
Whole Foods house brand

Trying to avoid the least and the most expensive.

Hi, I can empathize with trying to find a way to find the best or most
nutritious food for your cat. I recently ran across an article in
Animal Wellness Magazine (June/July 2007 issue). The main article is
called "Pet Food Recall leaves bitter taste: What they're not telling
you." At the end of that article is a link to a pet food report by a
vet
on pet food ranking according to nutritional values. I think it's
very helpful and you might think so to. Just go to:
http://www.animalwellnessmagazine.com/art/aV93_62c.htm and see wha you
think.

wrote in message
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On Oct 26, 2:49 pm, RPSinha wrote:
I am close to a Petsmart and a Whole Foods, can get to a Petco and
Trader Joes. I can brood over prices and look for sales, and my cat can
decide the taste, but could you, the more experienced people here,
please rank the following canned food brands according to nutrition:

Fancy Feast
Pro Plan
Iams
Nutro
Science Diet
Nature's Recipe
Trader Joe's house brand
Whole Foods house brand

Trying to avoid the least and the most expensive.

Hi, I can empathize with trying to find a way to find the best or most
nutritious food for your cat. I recently ran across an article in
Animal Wellness Magazine (June/July 2007 issue). The main article is
called "Pet Food Recall leaves bitter taste: What they're not telling
you." At the end of that article is a link to a pet food report by a
vet
on pet food ranking according to nutritional values. I think it's
very helpful and you might think so to. Just go to:
http://www.animalwellnessmagazine.com/art/aV93_62c.htm and see wha you
think.


Of course the cat may not care what the nutritional value is and may
actually only eat the least nutritionally valuable food...

Kathy P. wrote:

: Of course the cat may not care what the nutritional value is and may
: actually only eat the least nutritionally valuable food...

Fortunately for me, this one is not too picky about what she eats. I
just want to learn where the best value is. This knowledge can be used
for other cats too, each of whom will have their taste preference.

wrote:

: http://www.animalwellnessmagazine.com/art/aV93_62c.htm
: and see wha you think.

Thanks. Very interesting. One surprise for me was to see Fancy Feast
being ranked along with Friskies, Whiskas, etc. I thought it was more
premium than that, perhaps at the level of Pro Plan, Iams, and Nutro.

CatNipped wrote:

: http://webpages.charter.net/katkarma/canfood.htm

: http://www.consumersearch.com/www/fa...ood/index.html

: http://www.maxshouse.com/feline_nutrition.htm

Thanks. I know #1 and #3 but didn't know about Consumer Research
article. As I said in another post too, one surprise for me was to see
Fancy Feast being regarded as lower level brand. I have to believe they
are better, if only because I just bought a bunch of them.

Association of American Feed Control Officials
http://www.peteducation.com/article....&articleid=657

Fancy Feast:
http://www.fancyfeast.com/#title=home&page=home
Also a priemium Fancy Feast:
http://www.elegantmedleys.com/

Big Mama got a nice gift packages from Elegant Medleys and Sheba.
Sheba costs about $1.09 a 3oz. can, and is the among the most
expensive
I know of.
I was tempted to put it on some bread and eat it myself!

For all those interested, check the Web site for complimentary offers.
This company is the same one that makes M&M candies...Mars Inc.
http://www.sheba.com/home.asp

studio wrote:

: Sheba costs about $1.09 a 3oz. can, and is the among the most
: expensive I know of...For all those interested, check the Web site
: for complimentary offers http://www.sheba.com/home.asp

The comp offer seems to have expired.

Another thing, I haven't seen the actual product, only its web page,
but the ingredient list given there is so short that while it seems
"pure" I wonder if all the nutrients are there. In particular I didn't
see taurine in the ingredient list.

Go to above web page, mouse over cuisine, click poultry or seafood,
then any particular entree. Of course food so expensive probably has
balanced nutrition, so it must be the web site quirk.

Another odd thing is, their product locator brings up grocery stores,
Kmart and Target, but no Petsmart or Petco.