Is F Fancy Feast Dry Cat Food Controversial?

Fancy Feast was manufactured by Cat Food Inc. and is distributed by Purina. Fancy Feast is sold under several names, such as Nantucket Magic, Tuna Cat, etc. and is marketed as an upscale dry cat food with organic meat ingredients, and a fancy presentation designed to look like it was created by a celebrity chef. There are also Fancy Feast coupons available online.

The ingredient list reads like an almost science fiction menu: It includes an ingredient called” unspecified meat meal,” and another ingredient called “hydrolysed vegetable protein concentrate” listed in the ingredients as an unidentified meat product. Each of these ingredients should be recognizable to be able to read the ingredient label. There are only three specific ingredients listed on the ingredient label: beef tallow, chicken broth, and fish oil.

There are other ingredients that are listed: but they do not have identifying labels and could be foods that people would eat anyway. These ingredients include unspecified meat meal, by-products (wheat, chicken meal, etc. ), and a vegetable protein concentrate. I have seen these terms used before, but not on a fancy gourmet dry cat food label. So, if this is a quality brand of cat food, which is supposed to cost more than normal cat food, then where is the beef tallow or by-product meal that you are supposed to be getting?

Another ingredient: that is not recognizable on this fancy gourmet line of food is called “corn meal.” This is the generic name for what is probably a by-product meal: corn meal, also known as corn fiber. This ingredient should not be consumed by cats, but may be used in making catnip toys and other toys that are designed to attract your pet. The other ingredients in this product seem to be acceptable to the American Association of Cat Care veterinarians, but they are not the group that specifies what an ingredient is supposed to contain. Other pet organizations also have their own lists of questionable ingredients, but most animal health organizations treat anything with animal protein as suspect.

Another problem with this brand of cat food: is that it uses corn gluten meal as the main ingredient, even though corn gluten meal is a low quality ingredient in its own right and cannot be used on a dog or a cat in any way. Even if it were accepted as an acceptable low quality ingredient, which it is not, corn gluten meal is a mixture of several different materials, none of which should ever be used together. Cats and dogs are sensitive to the lectins in corn gluten meal, which is the primary bioactive component of the corn gluten protein that causes allergic reactions in humans. If this common low grade ingredient was used as an ingredient in a popular cat treat, it could cause a wide range of problems, including severe anaphylactic shock and even death.

Regardless of whether you believe that: the ingredients in F Fancy Feast are controversial, the bottom line is that this product is not worth buying, regardless of how you feel about the ingredients themselves. The claims that the company makes about the use of poultry by-product meal as its main ingredient are simply untrue. They make these claims in an attempt to manipulate the buying public and get them to purchase something that they most likely would not want or need based on the marketing techniques used.

By using ethically conscious marketing techniques, I would recommend that you stay away from this popular dry cat food.