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Ingredients Listing

Ingredients
Poultry by-product meal, ground yellow corn, wheat flour, corn gluten meal, soybean meal, brewers rice, beef tallow preserved with mixed-tocopherols (source of vitamin E), fish meal, brewers dried yeast, animal digest, phosphoric acid, potassium chloride, calcium carbonate, tetra sodium pyrophosphate, calcium chloride, choline chloride, dicalcium phosphate, salt, taurine, zinc oxide, ferrous sulfate, vitamin supplements (E, A, B-12, D-3), L-Alanine, riboflavin supplement, niacin, calcium pantothenate, manganese sulfate, biotin, thiamine mononitrate, folic acid, pyridoxine hydrochloride, copper sulfate, citric acid, menadione sodium bisulfite complex (source of vitamin K activity), calcium iodate.

Guaranteed Analysis
Note: The Guaranteed Analysis listed herein is not converted to "dry matter values," and any meaningful comparisons must take dry matter values into consideration. For an easy formula for converting to dry matter, see the article on "Understanding Cat Food Labels," linked below.

Protein (min.) 31.50 % Calcium   1.1 %
Fat (min.) 11.00 % Moisture (max.) 12.00 %
Fiber (max.)   4.50% Phosphorus (min.)   1.00 %
Linoleic Acid (min.)  1.25 % Arachidonic Acid (min.)  0.02 %
Taurine   0.125 %

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