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Looks like Fromm has got w/ the program & introduced their 4- like of foods for cats!! I was given a sample today of the 2 flavours, Salmon & Duck a la Veg.
Four-Star Nutritionals
Four-Star NutritionalsTM brings pet nutrition to the next level. This is a special line of gourmet-quality holistic pet food. Four-Star has the highest inclusion levels on the market of fresh meats, vegetables, and fruit, which are prepared in a manner befitting a fine four-star restaurant. These ingredients are never dried or preprocessed and are slowly simmered to retain their nutritional value and palatability. Four-Star offers you a choice of three entrées for canine: fresh duck, chicken or fish, and two entrées for feline: fresh duck or salmon. All entrees are blended with fresh vegetables, fruits, and grains to provide a first-class meal.
* Fresh meat, vegetables, and fruits
* 25 different food ingredients
* Added probiotics, prebiotics, and chealated minerals
* Wheat, corn, and beat pulp free
* Added probiotics and prebiotics to aid digestion
* Oat fiber to aid hairball reduction in the cat food
Fromm combines a unique and unparalleled combination of hand-trimmed meats (duck, chicken, fish, or salmon), fresh produce, including sweet potatoes, broccoli, alfalfa sprouts, carrots, apples, blueberries, and cranberries with barley, oats, millet, brown rice, brown eggs, and cheddar cheese. This line of pet food provides complete and balanced nutrition for the animal — including antioxidants, vitamins, minerals, beneficial probiotics and prebiotics, Omega 6 and Omega 3 Essential Fatty acids — for all stages of life.
And the ingredients list:
Duck a la Veg Cat Food
An exquisite medley of duck & sweet potato with carrots, broccoli, apples, cranberries & parsley.
Fromm Four Star Nutritionals offers the highest inclusion levels of fresh meat, fruit and vegetables of any cat food on the market. And we prepare it in a manner befitting a fine, four star restaurant.
Our meat and fish are of the same quality you'd find at a good butcher shop or market. Every cut is handpicked and carefully prepared in small batches to ensure extraordinary quality. While this might sound complicated, it's really nothing more than simple, basic nutrition.
We wish your four legged family members "bon appetit"
Ingredients:
Duck, Duck Meal, Pearled Barley, White Rice, Sweet Potato, Dried Whole Egg, Rice Gluten, Dried Tomato Pomace, Turkey Liver, Canola Oil (preserved with mixed tocopherols), Salmon Oil (preserved with mixed tocopherols), Potato, Chicken Fat (preserved with mixed tocopherols), Flaxseed, Ground Oat Hulls, Carrots, Broccoli, Cauliflower, Apples, Green Beans, Lecithin, DL-Methionine, Potassium Chloride, Cranberries, Blueberries, Salt, Chicory Root Extract, Glucosamine Hydrochloride, Alfalfa Sprouts, Yucca Schidigera, Folic Acid, Whole Clove Garlic, Parsley, Chondroiten Sulfate, Lactobacillus Acidophilus, Bifidobacterium Longum, Lactobacillus Salivarius, Enterococcous Faecium, Vitamin A, D3, E, B12 Supplements, Choline Chloride, Niacin, Pantothenic Acid, Ascorbic Acid, Riboflavin, Thiamine Mononitrate, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Menadione Sodium Bisulfite (Source of Vitamin K Activity), Biotin, Zinc Sulfate, Ferrous Sulfate, Mangaous Sulfate, Copper Sulfate, Cobalt Carbonate, Calcium Lodate, Sorbic Acid, Iron Proteinate, Zinc Proteinate, Copper Proteinate, Manganese Proteinate, Sodium Selenite.
Guaranteed Analysis:
Crude Protein not less than 3.4%
Crude Fat not less than 20%
Crude Fiber not more than 3.5%
Moisture not more than 10%
Ash not more than 6.5%
Magnesium not more than 0.10%
Taurine not less than 0.12%


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Where do I find wonderful food? It sounds amazing!


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Do they use organic meats? Getting meat from the butcher or market does not necessarily mean it's good meat, just that it meets the requirements for human consumption.


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It is human grade but not organic.
The only brand I know that contains any organic meat (Eagle Pack) isn't great because they mix it w/ low quality non-organic meat (pork of all things... )


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Why does the food contain garlic...is that not poisonous to cats? I would also do away with liver as a source of protein. Then again, I'm picky about certain things.


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Garlic is found in most super premium cat foods, & it is a topic of debate. I personally have fed garlic-containing cat foods for years w/ no problems.


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Garlic is not recommended for cats for several reasons. First, it can cause anemia by damaging red blood cells. And, given that Syd has already treated for anemia, I prefer not to take that chance. Additionally, allicin (a chemical found in garlic) can act as an irritant in the mouth, esophagus, and stomach. Given Max's IBS, that is another reason why I no longer feed garlic. It makes me wonder if my cats' health problems were exacerbated by the presence of garlic in the food?
There is no "safe" level of garlic specified for cats, nor is there a "toxic" level specified. It has also been suggested that cats have individual toxicity levels. Garlic does have some good qualities (immune system aid, flea repellent). However, if you contact the companies using garlic, they will tell you that they only use small amounts which, to me, means that they are using it mostly for flavor enhancement.


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Garlic does have some good qualities (immune system aid, flea repellent).
I just read an article today that says that garlic has no effect on fleas... although the magazine was from 2000 so maybe they've researched more since then...


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I know that the garlic is used as a taste enhancer in cat foods. It is not a major ingredient.
I am just wondering how it could be so harmful when I've had cats eating foods containing it for 10 years+ & never had any problems w/ anemia?


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I believe it might be raw garlic that is harmful...