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SaraMV

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I searched on the Food List on here and couldn't find a couple of varieties on it.

I am trying to get the carb content for Friskies Tasty Treasures with Turkey in gravy prime fillets. The chart shows Tasty Treasures with bacon or Tasty Treasures with cheese, neither of which are listed on my cans.

Also, I can not find Friskies Farm Favorites pate or Friskies Extra Gravy pate. Does anyone know if the company changed the names to some of these, or are these new flavors since the chart was created? Is there a way to find the carb info for these? I've tried googling with no good results. A lot contradict the info on Dr Lisa's list. :(
 
SaraMV said:
I am trying to get the carb content for Friskies Tasty Treasures with Turkey in gravy prime fillets.
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Hi Sara,

I like to look on Chewy when I'm not sure. If you can find the food on Chewy and scroll down the the questions and answers sections, there is usually someone that asked about carb content.

For example, the Friskies Tasty Treasures with Turkey in Gravy Prime Filets can be found in this variety pack: https://www.chewy.com/friskies-tasty-treasures-gravy-prime/dp/104225

If you scroll down you can see someone asked: "Hi! what is the carbohydrate content???? My cat is diabetic and I must calculate daily carbs. Thank you." and Chewy responded with: "The carbohydrate content for the With Chicken & Tuna in Gravy recipe is 3.6%, the With Chicken in Gravy is 3.5%, the With Turkey in Gravy is 3.5% and the With Ocean Fish & Tuna in Sauce is 3.4% all on an as-fed basis."

As for the other two, you can search for them and try to find the same info in the Q&A for those products:
https://www.chewy.com/s?query=Friskies Farm Favorites pate&nav-submit-button=
https://www.chewy.com/s?query=Friskies Extra Gravy pate&nav-submit-button=

Hope this helps.
 
Hendrick Cuddleclaw said:
I am skeptical, flavors with gravy are almost always higher. 3.5% seems very low for those friskies flavors, hmmmm
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True, I hadn't considered that, thanks for catching that, it was 1:00am when I posted that reply.

I'm skeptical now too, and also of the calculator Diane shared. I plugged in the values from a can off FF Classic Chicken Feast and the calculator tells me its 2.43% wet matter carbohydrates and 11% dry matter carbohydrates. If the dry matter is what we are interested in, then 11% is too high and also differs from the 3% carb listed in Dr. Pierson's food chart for the chicken feast.
 
I believe Dr Pierson's chart that the Chicken Feast Classic Pate is 3% calories from carbs, we feed the 2% Chicken and Liver, the 3% Chicken Feast Classic, 4% Chunky Chicken Feast and 5% Chunky Turkey Feast regularly. If the Chicken Feast Classic pate was 11% I would know because Hendrick's BG numbers go right up if he is fed 10% or higher, but feeding him Chicken Feast Classic Pate does not raise him much at all.
 
Corey & Kitty said:
True, I hadn't considered that, thanks for catching that, it was 1:00am when I posted that reply.

I'm skeptical now too, and also of the calculator Diane shared. I plugged in the values from a can off FF Classic Chicken Feast and the calculator tells me its 2.43% wet matter carbohydrates and 11% dry matter carbohydrates. If the dry matter is what we are interested in, then 11% is too high and also differs from the 3% carb listed in Dr. Pierson's food chart for the chicken feast.
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the other thing to remember is that what you get from the can is the GA "guaranteed analysis" not the As-Fed. As-fed is more accurate and if I recall correctly Dr. Pierson goes to a lot of trouble to find out the actual as-fed values so her calculations are more accurate

BUT also, unfortunately, her last update was 5 years ago and companies do change their recipes.
 
Hendrick Cuddleclaw said:
BUT also, unfortunately, her last update was 5 years ago and companies do change their recipes.
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I contacted Purina recently about the current TNA data for their fancy feast classic pate varieties and they responded with a very generic reply stating that they really want to help me with my inquiry but that they would recommend I contact my vet regarding my cat's nutritional needs.
 
Hendrick Cuddleclaw said:
I am skeptical, flavors with gravy are almost always higher. 3.5% seems very low for those friskies flavors, hmmmm
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This is what was throwing me off. I would try to find out the carb percentage for the flavors on the list and none of them were matching any of the sites I found, so I didn't the flavors of the ones I couldn't find being correct. It's all so confusing but u have a couple of cans here and absolutely no idea if they're low, medium, or high carb.
 
Corey & Kitty said:
True, I hadn't considered that, thanks for catching that, it was 1:00am when I posted that reply.

I'm skeptical now too, and also of the calculator Diane shared. I plugged in the values from a can off FF Classic Chicken Feast and the calculator tells me its 2.43% wet matter carbohydrates and 11% dry matter carbohydrates. If the dry matter is what we are interested in, then 11% is too high and also differs from the 3% carb listed in Dr. Pierson's food chart for the chicken feast.
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Hi Corey you're right that calculator must be screwy, I always go by Dr Pierson's chart , I have deleted it, thank you
 
Suzanne & Darcy said:
I posted this somewhere else too, but Dr. Pierson's chart is really old by now (2014). We need new, more up to date food charts. A lot of the formulas have changed.
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Yes we do! I thought the chart was pretty thorough until I went looking for several flavors and they're not on there. What do I do now, consider them medium carb or compare them to the other flavors that are similar?
 
and yet another reason to start making our own cat food!!!
these companies are making SO MUCH $$ off us, yet they do nt have the time to answer a freaking email. Irritates the pee outa me!!
And they keep changing the recipes to cut costs while they up ours:(
 
Ashleigh & Ares said:
and yet another reason to start making our own cat food!!!
these companies are making SO MUCH $$ off us, yet they do nt have the time to answer a freaking email. Irritates the pee outa me!!
And they keep changing the recipes to cut costs while they up ours:(
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Yes! I am right on the edge of making my own food. I just haven't "jumped" yet. I think with, as many cats as I have, it could actually save me money. I have one cat with IBD who is supposed to be on a "hypoallergenic" diet, but I was thinking of trying raw with him (probably turkey though since, again... I have lot of cats and can't really afford to give them all exotic meats.)
 
Suzanne & Darcy said:
@Chrispooky12

see above where I attached links to food lists for cats with kidney disease. There’s a short list for cats with diabetes that lists low carb lower phosphorus foods.
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I was hoping to go with tiki cat because they sell it at pet's mart & I can buy single cans & try them out but it looks like weurva might be better. I'm just worried about the slightly higher carb count in weurva. They are higher carb than fancy feast.
 
Chrispooky12 said:
I was hoping to go with tiki cat because they sell it at pet's mart & I can buy single cans & try them out but it looks like weurva might be better. I'm just worried about the slightly higher carb count in weurva. They are higher carb than fancy feast.
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remember to go super slow if u do choose tiki cat...i tried to put Ares on it too quick and he just had such bad constipation :( or any raw food or only meat diets. u probably already know this tho ;)
 
Ashleigh & Ares said:
remember to go super slow if u do choose tiki cat...i tried to put Ares on it too quick and he just had such bad constipation :( or any raw food or only meat diets. u probably already know this tho ;)
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Aww poor Ares. Yeah I'm scared to do the raw thing Lol. Yeah transition slow. They both get mirilax once a day but I guess they could still get constipated.
 
i have Ares on 4 to 5 sprinkles of psyllium husk per day in his food. does wonders for his constipation issues, and is super cheap if bought in bulk (lasts forever), natural and all fiber.
 
SaraMV said:
It doesn't affect hours blood glucose?
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nope, its just straight up fiber..it soaks up liquid and shoves ot thru their intestines! its is also good for us too! Add make Ares a water and pate slurry amd half of his meals get a little sprinkle of it. And i know for a fact that it is this stuff making him go. I stopped sprinkles for almost 2 days and he was stopped up again...but not for long within 24 hrs he was going when i began it again!
I justlove the stuff.
I have a big bag of NOW brand from Amazon i use when i go on keto. i remembered i had it in cupboard from over a year ago after poor guy was stopped up for days and i tried to use otc crap (which he hated and was so difficult to get him to ingest).
Only other thing that worked well was slippery elm tincture i had, but it had glycerin in it... very sweet sugary.

if u like the PH, id say buy the big bag, it will last4ever.
 
When Darcy got kidney disease, I took him off of his favorite Tiki flavors because they were too high in phosphorus (man, he loved the one with the little quail eggs on top!)
 
Wait a minute, way up in this thread it says that "as fed" is more accurate than "guaranteed analysis." Kinda mixing apples and oranges, there, when trying to figure out the carb content. "Guaranteed analysis" means we guarantee it will have at least/at most these content values. So, it's the average mix of food, since blending natural ingredients (animal parts) can vary some; so they will test and adjust to make sure it falls within certain specifications.

"As fed" means this is the values we give you for right as it comes out of the can. So, a 3.5% carbs right out of the can means 3.5% of everything in that can, including THE WATER WHICH MAKES UP TYPICALLY 78-80% OF WHAT'S IN THE CAN, is carbs. So you need to take out the water, and figure the % carbs based on only the actual foods, the solids stuff, in the can. If the can contains 78% water (which they often call "moisture" because it sounds better), then it is only 22% actual food stuff in the can. So if it has 3.5% carbs out of 22% food stuff, that means (3.5/22)=0.159;, multiply that by 100 to turn it into percent, and that food is 15.9% carbs, based on food only, and not all the water included. And that's by weight percent, if you want to know what percentage of the calories it is, that's another calculation (and you need to know the fats and protein percentages to do that one.)
 
I am soo confused. I used a calculator to find out the carbs in friskies pate and friskies bits. (Dr Pierson's chart said pate has less at 4-5% and bits is 14%.) This calculator said that the bits had less dry matter carbs (12%) than the pate (14%). :banghead:
 
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