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Title: Anyone know if 0.2% phosphorus is good for wet food?
Post by: Mark on April 09, 2009, 19:04:56 PM: I bought a few pouches of Nutro Choice yesterday and Willow is eating it - I am trying to increase her wet food but keep her phosphorus low. She isn't keen on many wet foods but seems to like this.
Title: Re: Anyone know if 0.2% phosphorus is good for wet food?
Post by: Pinkbear (Julie) on April 09, 2009, 19:22:58 PM: Isn't that explosive? :-:
Title: Re: Anyone know if 0.2% phosphorus is good for wet food?
Post by: Tiggy's Mum on April 09, 2009, 19:28:10 PM: Are you sure it's 0.2% and not 2%? 0.2% is lower than all the prescription kidney diets...

http://www.felinecrf.org/tinned_food.htm
Title: Re: Anyone know if 0.2% phosphorus is good for wet food?
Post by: CarolM (Wendolene) on April 09, 2009, 19:49:38 PM: Is it 0.2% dry weight or 0.2% of the wet food. If its % of wet food (as I suspect) then you need to know the moisture content so that you can calculate the % dry weight. Most wet foods are 75-80-% moisture so its probably 0.8 to 1.0% which is very good for a non-prescription food.
Title: Re: Anyone know if 0.2% phosphorus is good for wet food?
Post by: Mark on April 10, 2009, 12:08:13 PM: I just checked and it really is 0.2% Phos. Moisture is 80% - the adult and the senior are the same. It's funny as they give a feeding guide for cats weighing 1/2kg, 1/2 pouch a day up to cats weighing 8kg ( :Crazy: ) 6 3/4 pouches a day :Crazy: - normal price 59p a pouch :Crazy: (I got it 1/2 price clearance)
Title: Re: Anyone know if 0.2% phosphorus is good for wet food?
Post by: Mark on April 10, 2009, 12:12:25 PM: Quote from: Pinkbear (Julie) on April 09, 2009, 19:22:58 PM
Isn't that explosive? :-:

I hope not - it is in a broth which Willow was impressed with and she rarely touches wet food. Annoyingly, she ate the one pouch of adult I had left but didn't want the senior. I will get some more and probably find it it was a fluke. It was from the pet shop near the Dogs Trust shop in Herne Bay.
Title: Re: Anyone know if 0.2% phosphorus is good for wet food?
Post by: Susanne (urbantigers) on April 10, 2009, 12:18:45 PM: 0.2% phosphorus works out at 1% when calclutated as dry matter. felinecrf.org recommends feeding cats with CRF foods with phosphorus under 1% (most renal foods are under 0.5%). 1% is pretty good. I think felix senior is about 1.2% for comparison.

I used to feed nutro choice pouches but it was those that were involved in the US food scare about a year ago (contaminated food) so I stopped buying them from zooplus.
Title: Re: Anyone know if 0.2% phosphorus is good for wet food?
Post by: Mark on April 11, 2009, 08:03:38 AM: I hadn't thought about that. The petshop was clearing old stock. I would expect them to have recalled contaminated stock? - It is pricey but I would give it to them if they ate it as it is rare to get a high meat content food that is chunks in gravy. Most better ones seem to be aspic type which none of mine will touch.
Title: Re: Anyone know if 0.2% phosphorus is good for wet food?
Post by: Susanne (urbantigers) on April 11, 2009, 11:07:42 AM: I wouldn't worry about it being contaminated - I think it was nearer 2 years than a year ago (or even more). At the time, they kept releasing new batch numbers and while some of it was just cautionary, I had some of the batch numbers in my zooplus delivery. I threw them out to be on the safe side and decided not to buy it for a while until it all blew over and I could be certain it was ok. I just never got around to ordering it again. I'm sure it will be ok now.