Picked up a 12 pound bag of Purina Beyond grain free salmon dry cat food. I had a coupon that needed to be used before 3/31.
One of my cats, Shadow, won't eat it, so I need to feed 12 pounds of it to Eva, who will eat it.
I was going to get Purina Beyond organic chicken dry cat food and I'd bet Shadow would have eaten that but it's not for indoor cats.
Well, you could do worse but let me explain about Purina and all the less expensive brands.
Purina advertises this as #1 ingredient Salmon with a nice fresh piece of Salmon on the bag, yum... looks great!
However the amount of actual Salmon protein in the bag would be about 7 ingredients down the list. So this is pretty much a bag of chicken meal and pea protein and that is ok as long as one understands that, its certainly better then other discount brands found in super markets.
Also one other thing to note, "Grain Free" is not superior to something with rice ect in it over the actual type of protein in the bag. In this case, chicken meal, pea protein, dried egg. Actual Salmon Protein would be at the bottom of the list.
Anyway, its good to never feed only one brand of food to any animal just like a human would not eat one brand.
Here is why, the Salmon listed as first is before it is processed, meaning wet salmon, once it is dried and free of water there is almost nothing left, by far chicken meal protein is most prevalent and even then to get the protein up to the level printed on the bag they have to add pea protein (which you know is plant based) as well as dried eggs. There is very little "Salmon" in this bag.
Here is the label right from Purina. BTW it lists as a 11 Lb bag but sure I have the right one.
INGREDIENTS: Salmon, pea starch, chicken meal, pea protein, canola meal, cassava root flour, dried egg product, powdered cellulose, dried yeast, dried sweet potatoes, pea fiber, beef fat preserved with mixed-tocopherols, natural flavor, phosphoric acid, calcium carbonate, sodium bisulfate, potassium chloride, whole cranberries, salt, taurine, DL-Methionine, choline chloride, MINERALS [zinc sulfate, ferrous sulfate, manganese sulfate, copper sulfate, calcium iodate, sodium selenite], VITAMINS [Vitamin E supplement, niacin (Vitamin B-3), Vitamin A supplement, calcium pantothenate (Vitamin B-5), thiamine mononitrate (Vitamin B-1), Vitamin B-12 supplement, riboflavin supplement (Vitamin B-2), pyridoxine hydrochloride (Vitamin B-6), folic acid (Vitamin B-9), menadione sodium bisulfite complex (Vitamin K), Vitamin D-3 supplement, biotin (Vitamin B-7)], L-Lysine monohydrochloride, Vitamin E supplement, dried Bacillus coagulans fermentation product. C424319
Purina Beyond Indoor is a grain free and natural cat food that provides all the nourishment your indoor cat needs. She will love the salmon, egg & sweet potato flavor!
www.purina.com