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ISIL&TIFIL

ISIL&TIFIL

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Hello,
I have a question about giving cheese. I don't know what you call this king of cheese in USA, but I guess maybe it can be "stager cheese" or maybe "kashkaval cheese"... we call it "kaşar".. My diabetic cat loves it and when ever we eat it she starts crying so bad, I wanted to learn if it is ok to give her this cheese? Does effect the BG levels? I know that it is a very faty cheese, is it harmful to give a cat this kind of cheese? Here is the google images link for it..Thank you very much
http://www.google.com.tr/search?hl=tr&q ... a=N&tab=wi
 
You got me curious about a real answer so I went googling and came across lots of info including this site:

Carb count of 1000 foods

maybe try googling the specific cheese and carbohydrate to see what you find.
 
Gayle and Shadoe said:
You got me curious about a real answer so I went googling and came across lots of info including this site:

Carb count of 1000 foods

maybe try googling the specific cheese and carbohydrate to see what you find.
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wow wonderful link, thank you very much, I also looked for the foods that I often eat in this chats, I am in a shock, I've been taking lots of calories for one day :shock:
 
I found it...

Name.............: stager cheese
gram....: 100
Protein......: 27
carbohydrate: 1,4
fat…........: 31,7
Calorie:….....: 404


But the problem is I don't understand, is it ok to give it ? The calorie seems to be high but she is not going to eat 100 gram. There is light version of this cheese maybe I can give that (I looked it up 100 grams=170 calories), or else, do you think the values is ok to give?
 
tifil&isil said:
Name.............: stager cheese
gram....: 100
Protein......: 27
carbohydrate: 1,4
fat…........: 31,7
Calorie:….....: 404
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Someone please check my math!!!!

Since pet food manufacturers do not put the actual number of carbohydrate on their labels, we do the best we can by trying to calculate the percent of the calories that come from carbohydrate. If pet food was labeled like the example above, we wouldn't have to derive a percent value.

Protein has 4 calories/gram
fat has 9 calories/gram
Carbohydrate has 4 calories/gram

In your example above, there are 1.4 grams of carb in 100 grams of cheese so,

1.4 grams of carbohydrate times 4 calories/gram = 5.6 calories
5.6 carbohydrate calories/400 calories = 0.014% of calories are from carbohydrate

We feed under 10% carbohydrate so your cheese is well within the recommendation.

I give my cat cheese for treats and any hard or semi-soft cheese should be okay.

Lana
 
The old adage 'everything in moderation' comes to mind. If you give her a little bit (maybe .5 cm cube?) once in a while, its probably fine. You can always check an hour later and see if it affected her bg if you wish. Its a great thing to keep in mind in case she ever has a day when she decides not to eat - grating a bit of her fav cheese on her food might work magic.
 
Thank you everyone, you are great!
I bought light version of this cheese but I could only find the brand that was 250 calories for 100 grams...
I gave 5 small cubes, I didn't weigh it stupid me, but tomorow I am going to weigh before I give it to her and will check her after one hour as you said...By the way it was a party day for her...she was so so happy to get her best treat after 2 mounths :) confused_cat confused_cat
 
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