Friskies Indoor Delights Cat Food with Garden Greens

Purina seems to enjoy teasing the public with advertising promoting its food as healthy and nutritious diets and this one also falls into that boat. It also has a misleading name. Consumers should make a habit of reading the ingredient labels on pet food and comparing that with the company's claims. Read on and you will see what I mean!

Purina Friskies Indoor Delights Dry Cat Food, 6.3 lb.

This cat food comes in a green bag weighing 6.3 lbs. and retailing for around $8.99 a bag. It has a cat on the front with a paw up in the air above the logo and name of the cat food. Beneath the name you see the advertisement that this food contains "chicken, beef, turkey & cheese and flavors with a touch of garden greens".

Sounds good, right?

The kibble or cat food is different shapes and colors including triangles, oblong and one that resembles a deformed bone, all green, red, light tan and dark brown in color.

My Thoughts on Purina Friskies Indoor Delights Cat Food

I have to admit that our cats did take to this food and obviously enjoyed it. We have a new adopted outdoor cat that was abandoned by neighbors that moved several years ago and Garfield looks like he is staying at my house. He has wandered from house to house for years, but recently he appears to be homesteading at our place. That's ok! I love animals and would never let this kitty starve. He gets the same food our other cats do!

I was a bit disappointed to find that all the meat (protein) that is advertised on the front of the package are all in the form of meals, by-products and flavors. Don't get me wrong, chicken meal or beef meal is a lot better than by-products but when I see beef, turkey, chicken advertised as an ingredient, then that is what I expect to see in the ingredient listing.

As for the "greens", it contains parsley. I don't see anything else that could be considered a "green". This is supposed to help with hairballs. Since we only used one bag of this, I can't comment on this aspect.

Purina is famous for these advertising gimmicks in most of their pet foods. I encourage you to read the ingredient labels. A lot of this food is not "premium" pet food, but you are paying the premium price.

Our cats did enjoy this food, so it obviously has a good flavor but I don't see myself buying this again and encouraging this company to keep up it's tactics of leering people into buying their products with false claims.

It's not the worst cat food on the market, but it is also not the best! Read your labels!

Ingredients

Ground yellow corn, corn gluten meal, chicken by-product meal, meat and bone meal, animal fat preserved with mixed-tocopherols (form of Vitamin E), corn germ meal, soybean meal, turkey by-product meal, brewers dried yeast, phosphoric acid, animal digest, tetra sodium pyrophosphate, potassium chloride, salt, dried chicken liver, added color (Red 40, Yellow 6, Yellow 5, Blue 2 and other color), choline chloride, taurine, zinc sulfate, ferrous sulfate, Vitamin E supplement, niacin, manganese sulfate.

Analysis

Crude Protein-Min: 30%

Crude Fat-Min: 10%

Crude Fiber-Max: 6%

Moisture-max: 12%

Recommendation

Purchase this at your own discretion. I won't be buying it again. It's just an average cat food and I don't like the claims of chicken, beef and turkey when these ingredients are actually in the form of a "meal". I give Purina Friskies Indoor Delights Dry Cat Food, 6.3 lb. a big thumbs DOWN and I apologize for the rant!

Source: http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1026232/friskies_indoor_delights_cat_food_with.html