What’s the best/yummiest cat food?

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My 1 year old boy is on Whiskas wet food and Purina One dry food, but he’s getting increasingly fussy about the flavours of the wet, and he’s never been super keen on dry. I don’t mind spending a bit of money, so wondering what is the best/most nutritious/ tastiest cat food? Thanks in advance

My husband got frustrated at the increasing fussiness of our cat so he decided to try all options himself. Apparently, they were all the tinned and sachet foods were disgusting. Not so much the taste which hardly varied despite the label on the sachet, but the texture which was just gag. Like an oversoaked Farlies rusk according to him. The dried food was a bit better.

After that we fed the cat dried food in the morning and whatever meat we were eating in the evening. The cat was happy and we stopped wasting pounds on uneaten cat food.

Ignore the errant "they were" after apparently above.

Mine like one called Encore. I was sick of throwing Whiskas snd Felix away.
It can be rich, so they get half a small tin each morning and evening.

Our extra fussy senior boy is happiest with food in gravy rather than jelly. I bulk buy the Gourmet Ocean Perle (fish) on Amazon. But a real treat is that Gourmet Cat Pate stuff - very expensive but lots of purring while eating that stuff!

Mine have cosma wet. About the nearest to 100% meat i could find.

Applaws biscuits are down permanently. She mainly eats them- she’s a rescue with a fear of new food.

My space cat is currently eating Gourmet Ocean Delights and gives them a big thumbs up.

Our new little man has just finished the remains of DH's pork chop.

Ours has Felix squishy food & Go-Cat biscuits, with a variety of treats (Dreamies, Felix mixes, Webbox sticks, Felix Crispies) & a special dinner a couple of times a week, usually Mon Petit or Encore.

The only things he hates are organic ones & some posh one at £9 a box (thank goodness).

I am lucky my cat will eat any food but I think that because when first got him I did not know what he had been fed so I got a bit of everything and he got use to it. ( the same goes for cat litter too )
At the moment he has tescos own , webbox , sheba and sheba finest cuts , he def prefers the sheba brands . he also has go-cat indoor cat and whiskers dry food

DCat wolfs down Thrive treats which are just chunks of dried meat or fish. Would be pretty costly to feed her on just those though so she has Thrive or Crave biscuits mostly and a few of the dried treats once a day.

High meat content generally means decent quality- cats are carnivores so veg, grain etc are really just fillers

My cats like a Aldi, the more expensive Pouches - Felix, but only the more expensive pouches. They LOVE the Sainsbury's hypoallergenic recipe and Applaws dry food

Thrive and Sainsbury’s delicious recipes

Mine says, in order

1. Gourmet perle
2. Sheba (select slices or some shit like that)
3. Whiskas Pure Delight (specifically the pure delight type)

Honorary mention to the Felix sensations (?) where you get a separate bag of sort of a crumb coating to shake on top. But it's too pricey so she doesn't get that anymore.

Yummiest is very much a matter of taste (pun intended!). Cats, like people, can have different preferences so what one cat likes another may not e.g. my mother loved aubergines, I loathe them, same with lychees.

When it comes to "best" or "most nutritious", everyone has their own view on this but pretty much everyone is agreed that the cheaper brands like Whiskas & Felix are like McDonalds for cats - cheap & cheerful, but not the best nutritionally. I'm afraid if you want good nutrition you need to pay a bit more and look at brands such as Appelaws, wild freedom, Animonda etc.

The same with the dry food. Mine get mostly an indoor formula dry, but I occasionally give them the anti-hairball from the same make. Though they do like their usual dry, if the anti hairball goes down they eat all that first (down all the time ad lib with their dry food).

Ours likes good as it looks, but not the beef one weirdly.

Ours have James Wellbeloved biscuits down all the time which is the only dry they are enthusiastic about.

The prefer the Melting Middles wet food, think it's gourmet perle but the only thing that really gets them going and an empty bowl is raw minced beef.

I really need to feed my old one up as she has hyperthyroidism so getting her tasty food is somewhat an ongoing challenge!

Thanks so much everyone! Lots of things to try!

My slightly chunky kitty likes 3 pouches of Sheba Fine Flakes Fish in Jelly a day, & one sachet of Gourmet Salmon Pate.

She doesn't eat dried food though..

Gourmet ocean fish and chicken, turkey. Has to be in gravy though. When I first adopted her she would only eat Whiskas in jelly, but has fortunately expanded her palette.