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Maybe I'm reading this chart wrong, but looking at these Fancy Feast flavors, the phosphorus looks really high, although the carbs are good. Is there a risk of other health issues if these are eaten regularly?
 
You're reading it correctly; they do have higher phosphorus.

Per Dr Pierson of Cat Info, you may add 20 to 25% plain meat, poultry, or fish to the canned food, and portion out. This will reduce the fat and carbohydrate content, increase the protein content, and because it isn't adding any bone, may reduce the phosphorus content a bit.
 
You mean I can use up the high carb food with just adding pure protein?? That would be great because I just stocked up at BJ's a week ago and hated to lose all that food. Would baking or boiling the fish or poultry be the best way?

So glad you told me!! ohmygod_smile .."

By the way, what does it mean when someone writes "bump" in their messages?
 
Bump is simply a way to get a message higher up in the queue on the forum. It's used for posts like this shortcut shopping list that tends to get buried on page 8 after only a couple of days. Lots of traffic here on the message boards, so sometimes we like to get useful information like this back onto the first page so more people see it.

The word "bump" could be replaced by any other work or message to accomplish the same thing.
 
Kathleen and Fred said:
You mean I can use up the high carb food with just adding pure protein?? That would be great because I just stocked up at BJ's a week ago and hated to lose all that food. Would baking or boiling the fish or poultry be the best way?
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You could do some mixing to dilute the high carb canned foods and freeze batches.(the solution to pollution is dilution.)
If you have 5.5 oz of high carb and mix it with 5.5 oz of low carb, you get (high carb % + low carb %)/2 for 11 oz
If you have 5.5 oz of high carb and mix it with 11 oz of low carb, you get the (high carb % + [2*low carb %])/3 for 16.5 oz

And so on.
 
What a lifesaving thread! This makes me feel relieved, I was starting to give up on finding low carb/low phosphorus foods. One question though. I'm a bit of a novice and rubbish with numbers; what does the triple-digit value for phosphorus come from? I've been carousing charts trying to find less than 1% phosphorus on a DMA but i'm a little confused by this new way of measuring phosphorus. Gonna discuss diet with my vet on Thursday so i'd like to be prepared. I understand it's mg, right? But out of the whole can or...??? And what would a 250mg number look like translated to Dry Matter analysis? I'm assuming more than 1% but still "okay?"
 
What a helpful list,has anyone the time to do similar for the UK /Europe cat foods? That would be one less problem for new members joining the forum.
 
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