just to clear the air grain free is a marketing buzzword that most manufacturers use
as a marketing ploy and typically they use high carbohydrate and starchy ingredients like potatoes
legumes etc since they can't use grain these starchy foods bump up the protein instead of them
adding meat based protein but the wet foods that we're going to review in this video are grain free
but also very low in carbohydrate and high in meat based protein hey friends it's jess and jericho
and the first grain free wet cat food that we're going to review is called meat mates this video is
not sponsored but there are affiliate links in the description so we're going to take a look at the
chicken dinner can so this word dinner right here means that there's between 25 and 94.9% chicken
and it's great that there's only meat-based protein in the name so chicken dinner instead of
it's saying chicken and potatoes or chicken and peas stuff like that you want to see meat only in
the product name so we're going to scroll down to the ingredients so we have chicken water chicken
liver i think that's it for the meat ingredients so you know not ideal but also good that they are
being specific about the meat ingredients instead of saying chicken by-products they say chicken
liver another con here might be fish oil instead of saying salmon oil or sardine oil they just say
fish oil so it's not very specific but kelp is a good ingredient that has a lot of trace minerals
and that can also help keep plaque off the teeth another pro here is that this brand is available
inside and outside the us and this is also suitable for all life stages so you can feed this
to adult cats seniors and kittens and then when we use the guaranteed analysis numbers to get an
approximate carb amount comes out to approximately zero percent on a dry matter basis so this product
is grain free but it's also carb free so that's a great pro but as i mentioned before a con is that
i would like to see more muscle meat like heart maybe gizzards there's no bones so that's why they
have to add these synthetic vitamins and minerals and you know more secreting organs would be better
but typically what you'll see is just liver but i don't know let me know in the comments below if
this is still a little bit better or if it's worse than what you're currently feeding your cat the
next grain free wet cat food that we'll review is called feline natural and this actually says grain
free on the label the product name here is chicken and lamb feast that word feast also fits under the
dinner or recipe rule 25 to 94.9% this one has chicken and lamb so that composition is combined
but it's great that it's meat only instead of saying chicken and rice or chicken and potatoes so
now we're going to scroll down to the ingredients we have chicken lamb heart water lamb kidney lamb
liver lamb blood new zealand green mussel and i think that's it for meat ingredients so you'll
see here that they have they also include kidney that's another secreting organ so instead of
just having liver only they include kidney and they also include lamb heart and they include
lamb blood the blood is always going to have some extra taurine because taurine is water soluble so
that's great that they add that as well and with new zealand green mussel they're being specific
instead of just saying fish meal they tell you new zealand green mussel and again this one also adds
kelp which is a great nutrient-dense food feline natural is also available inside and outside the
us so that's another pro this one's also suitable for all life stages seniors adults and kittens can
all eat this product and this one is also zero grains and it's also less than one percent carbs
you can click on the nutritional analysis and it'll tell you for all of their products right
here carbohydrate everything is less than one percent carbs which is perfect now some cons here
they still have to add some of these synthetic nutrients but again that might just be because
there's no bone there's not too much muscle mean you know there's chicken and lamb heart but maybe
they could have had added gizzards and it's also weird that there's no tripe considering
that they have lamb jericho actually really loves stinky green tripe gimme a polydactyl thumbs up
for stinky green tripe the next grain-free wet cat food that we'll review is called tiki cat
and they have a lot of different products this one specifically that we're looking at is their
after dark series i found that tiki cat uses a lot of fish which isn't recommended as a sole
protein source but with after dark it's mainly muscles muscle meat and some organs so this one
again we have chicken and quail egg recipe that word recipes fits under the same rule 25 to 94.9%
composition of chicken and quail (EDIT: egg) combined and when we look at the ingredients we
have chicken chicken broth quail egg chicken liver chicken gizzard chicken heart and later down the
list we have tuna oil so this one has let me see chicken chicken get three different muscle meats
so chicken chicken gizzards and chicken heart so that's great chicken broth instead of adding water
because you know it says that water is sufficient for for processing to keep all the ingredients wet
and together but this one uses chicken broth so that might be a little bit more nutritious
another chicken ingredient is always good quail egg is super nutritious eggs are the
most bioavailable protein so that's great and they're being specific about the fish oil that
they're using they're using tuna oil instead of just saying fish oil another pro here is
this product is also available inside and outside the us it's also suitable for all life stages and
again when we look at the guaranteed analysis you'll find that the approximate carb amount
is 0% on a dry matter basis and again looking at the ingredients there's also zero grains in the
product the price of this might also be a pro my mom used to use this food for her foUr cats
so if you have multiple cats then this is probably the product for you but i would say that a con
here is that the fat is really really low ideally you would have about half the amount of protein
that you see so a better number would be five or six something a little higher just because cats
get more energy from fat but i found that the fat content is fairly low in most of these products so
ideally you would feed a variety of proteins and i would also suggest a variety of brands
that way you have you know you're not relying on one company or one product and variety is key so
maybe this is a great food to introduce your cat maybe he's eating kibble right now you can
transition to this wet food and then you can start introducing more variety to the diet once he's
adjusted to this and another con just like the other ones there is a bit of synthetic vitamins
and minerals but whenever you see anything after salt it's likely less than one percent
so it's a very small amount of the actual product composition the next grain free wet cat food will
review is called raised right they have turkey and chicken for cats so we'll just take a look at the
turkey real quick turkey recipe that word recipe is the same rule 25 to 94.9% turkey so we see
the ingredients turkey thigh turkey heart turkey liver then there's cod liver oil eggshell powder
for the calcium and i think that's it for meat so we have turkey thigh and heart two muscle meats
turkey liver secreting organ and since there's no bone that's why they add the eggshell powder and
there's also carrots blueberries organic spearmint flaxseed oil organic dried kelp taurine and
thiamin so there's not a lot of synthetic vitamins and minerals so that should tell you that the
meat ingredients and the veggies are good sources of the vitamins and minerals to complete the diet
and then they actually tell you over here on the guaranteed analysis the dry matter for
carbohydrates is 3.5% so that's again coming from carrots and blueberries these are natural
foods so you'll have to decide whether you want slightly higher carbohydrate food with
natural foods or a lower carbohydrate food but there's more synthetic nutrients a con
here could be that it's only suitable for adult cats so when you see for maintenance
maintenance means adults only so if you have a kitten you cannot feed this food yet wait until
he's an adult and then you can transition to it another con might be that it's only available in
the us but for more cat food reviews you can check out this video right over meow thanks for watching