Homemade cat food recipes skip essential nutrients and could even contain potentially toxic ingredients, a new study reports.<\/p>\n
Researchers evaluated 114 recipes from online sources and books that non-veterinarians and veterinarians had written. Forty percent of the recipes did not provide any feeding instructions, and the remainder lacked detail and\/or clarity.<\/p>\n
“Only 94 recipes provided enough information for computer nutritional analysis and of those none of them provided all the essential nutrients to meet the National Research Council’s recommended allowances for adult cats,” says Jennifer Larsen, a veterinary nutritionist with the University of California, Davis, School of Veterinary Medicine, and lead author of the paper in the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n
Source: UC Davis<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"