EVO dry chicken/turkey cat food

[Candy M]

I have not yet started insulin treatment - it will start sometime this coming week. Red is eating both wet & dry EVO chicken/turkey cat food. The dry contains 87% animal protein, 13% fruit & veggie, and absolutely NO grains, potato or gluten. Does this seem to be a good diet?

 

[Squalliesmom]

Welcome to FDMB! Red is a handsome fellow!

Canned or wet food is always preferable to dry food, if at all possible. The Evo canned is fine, but I just read another thread someone posted saying Evo was discontinuing a lot of it's line of foods. Here is the link to that thread, if you would like to read it.

http://www.felinediabetes.com/FDMB/...number-of-their-products.141046/#post-1603055

Some people here have successfully used Evo Cat and Kitten chk/tky dry, but I have never had luck with it, it definitely raises my kitty's BG, so I guess it's just a case-by-case situation. Given a choice, though, I will always choose canned over dry, it's much healthier for kitties!

 

[Steph]

Stubbie does ok on it. It's still being made.

 

[Ferndoc]

Evo dry is one of 3 that can be feed to Diabetics. I read the discontinue thread a couple o days ago and was confused. It was from this summer and I've gotten their wet as of last week. Maybe they just ended up with a recipe change.

 

[Melanie and Smokey]

That thread is from back in July and the list of foods on the first post is the ones they did not discontinue. The Chicken and Turkey dry is still being made. They discontinued many of their specialty lines like the weight loss dry and some of the novel protein wets.

Its appropriateness for diabetics is being questioned. They changed they packaging from saying 8% to 13% carbohydrate and when questioned they just said that it was the same formula, but the carbs that did not impact BG were now included. More recently they confessed to having added a binder (tapioca??) that does affect some cats BGs. 13% is still better than many out there, though not what we ideally want a diabetic cat to be eating. Some people saw a significant rise in their cats numbers when trying to introduce EVO dry, some people don't see any change.
It is the one hard food I do have for diabetics. I use it during transitioning to wet and my one OTJ cats gets some in addition to his wet because he was getting to skinny. I don't feed dry to any cat I am trying to get regulated/into remission. If you can remove the dry so he is just eating the wet it would be better.

 

[sbnadell]

Huh. I didn't notice that they had changed the carb % on the packaging. The EVO website lists 12% carbs for the turkey & chicken dry. We don't give Norton a lot - he eats mostly fancy feast wet food - but he does like the EVO on the side. I guess I'll have to update my calculations of the percent of carbs he is eating. He's been eating it for a while, so as long as the formula is the same as it has been, it shouldn't be what is causing his numbers to be a little high lately (I really have to update his spreadsheet...).

 

[Melanie and Smokey]

so as long as the formula is the same as it has been, it shouldn't be what is causing his numbers to be a little high lately

This is the problem, they will tell people it is the same formula even though the labeling has changed, but its not. They have added a tapioca starch for binder. The binder is what has been affecting some people's cats. The binder is fairly high on the ingredient list too.
If your cats numbers have gone up, it may pay to remove the EVO and see if it makes a difference.