New Purina DM formula

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My vet mentioned on their Facebook page there there is a new canned "DM Savory Selects with Gravy".

I've found the ingredients on the website but that's about it. Has anyone else heard about it?

Ingredients (Savory Selects™ Canned)
Water sufficient for processing, chicken, liver, wheat gluten, meat by-products, corn starch-modified, soy flour, artificial and natural flavors, calcium phosphate, potassium chloride, taurine, choline chloride, salt, L-Lysine monohydrochloride, added color, zinc sulfate, calcium pantothenate, Vitamin A supplement, menadione sodium bisulfite complex (source of Vitamin K activity), pyridoxine hydrochhloride, riboflavin supplement, Vitamin B-12 supplement, biotin, folic acid, Vitamin D-3 supplement, potassium iodide.

Hmmmmmm....modified corn starch, wheat gluten & soy flour?
 
...and gravy? It's got to be higher carbs, right?
But chicken is the #1 ingredient instead of liver, so that's a change.
Carl
 
Guaranteed Analysis (Savory Selects™ Canned)
Crude Protein (Min) 12.5%
Crude Fat (Min) 4.0%
Crude Fiber (Max) 1.0%
Moisture (Max) 77.0%
Taurine (Min) 0.05%

Calorie Content (Savory Selects™ Canned)
Metabolizable Energy (ME): 1095 kcal/kg, 171 kcal/can
 
Don't know if this helps any, but this is the comparison off the Purina website:

Guaranteed Analysis (Canned)
Crude Protein (Min) 11.5%
Crude Fat (Min) 4.5%
Crude Fiber (Max) 2.0%
Moisture (Max) 78.0%


Guaranteed Analysis (Savory Selects™ Canned)
Crude Protein (Min) 12.5%
Crude Fat (Min) 4.0%
Crude Fiber (Max) 1.0%
Moisture (Max) 77.0%
Taurine (Min) 0.05%

Carl
 
It's got fewer calories than regular DM (191 k/cal)
 
There's corn starch and soy flour in it, which means it's definitely high in carbs. Argghh. Purina DM was doing so well with their other canned food, why did they have to go and do something like this? Now we are going to have to deal with explaining to newbies that one DM is ok to feed and the other isn't. What a pain.
 
I'm guessing the corn starch and soy flour are the thickeners for the gravy? The number one ingredient now is "water"? And all those words we can't pronounce must be for "flavor"? But their site just groups it with old DM and dry DM as "low carbohydrate".

Carl
 
As Janet has pointed out many times and as I discuss on my Commercial Canned Food page, guaranteed analyses are pretty close to worthless since they are only mins and maxes. It is lousy that they can't manage to give the public some actually USEFUL information....

Also, keep in mind that it is not possible to make any definitive comment about the PFC (protein/fat/carb) composition when reading an ingredient list since the list does not tell us how much of any ingredient is in the food.

From Purina's product guide (after some extra calculations were performed - values are rounded up or down):

Original DM canned PFC:

39/58/3

Phos: 260 mg/100 kcal

New DM canned PFC:

51/39/10

Phos: 220 mg/100 kcal

Even though I would never feed either of these diets to any cat in my care, the PFC of the newer version at least has higher protein and lower fat which would be better for a cat that is trying to lose weight.

That said, there are far better choices on the market than these expensive, low quality diets with their species-inappropriate ingredients.
 
Lisa dvm said:
As Janet has pointed out many times and as I discuss on my Commercial Canned Food page, guaranteed analyses are pretty close to worthless since they are only mins and maxes. It is lousy that they can't manage to give the public some actually USEFUL information....

Also, keep in mind that it is not possible to make any definitive comment about the PFC (protein/fat/carb) composition when reading an ingredient list since the list does not tell us how much of any ingredient is in the food.

From Purina's product guide (after some extra calculations were performed - values are rounded up or down):

Original DM canned PFC:

39/58/3

Phos: 260 mg/100 kcal

New DM canned PFC:

51/39/10

Phos: 220 mg/100 kcal

Even though I would never feed either of these diets to any cat in my care, the PFC of the newer version at least has higher protein and lower fat which would be better for a cat that is trying to lose weight.

That said, there are far better choices on the market than these expensive, low quality diets with their species-inappropriate ingredients.
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Thank you Dr. Lisa. It is always appreciated when you weigh in. :)
 
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