Great info! thank you for doing the research for me!!
- INGREDIENTS
Tuna, brewers rice, poultry by-product meal, corn gluten meal, dried egg product, animal fat preserved with mixed-tocopherols (form of Vitamin E), wheat flour, fish meal, animal liver flavor, soy protein concentrate, inulin, phosphoric acid, potassium chloride, added color, calcium carbonate, salt, Vitamin E supplement, choline chloride, taurine, zinc sulfate, ferrous sulfate, L-ascorbyl-2-polyphosphate (source of Vitamin C), manganese sulfate, niacin, Vitamin A supplement, calcium pantothenate, thiamine mononitrate, copper sulfate, riboflavin supplement, Vitamin B-12 supplement, pyridoxine hydrochloride, folic acid, Vitamin D-3 supplement, calcium iodate, biotin, menadione sodium bisulfite complex (source of Vitamin K activity), sodium selenite.
A-4631
Manufactured and guaranteed by: Nestlé Purina PetCare Company, St. Louis, MO 63164 USA
Pro Plan Savor Adult Tuna & Rice Formula is formulated to meet the nutritional levels established by the AAFCO Cat Food Nutrient Profiles for maintenance of adult cats.
Whew!! I haven't done that in a while - intense search for something very specific. The above is the list for one of Purina's dry cat foods. I highlighted the taurine. Personally, I use 4Health Indoor Cat exclusively sold by Tractor Supply. Half the cost and every bit as good.
- SAVOR® Adult
- TUNA AND RICE FORMULA
I can't understand why Orijen no longer lists the taurine in it's ingredients, it used to. I recall a ways back one company, (don't ask, can't remember, I'm old), recalled cat food because it did not contain enough taurine. Taurine is available in fresh red meat but is destroyed by heat and age. That is why it must be added as a supplement in cat food. Cats will sicken and can die if they don't get enough of it.
I use the cat food as the base of my inside bird's diet and the chicky kids get a bit now and then. For extra protein it is scrambled eggs, table scraps and raw meat trimmings. I have the luxury of a huge garden and over sized zucchini become awesome canoes in very short order
BTW-when my kids were young we would play "Zucchini Ball" using the ones that got carried away as bats.
very messy but lots of fun and all the chooks and other critters enjoyed the leftovers
