Which is the healthiest grain free cat food?

[Iamthemoom]

We have four cats with different tastes. Two mostly enjoy dry food. One likes very liquid wet foods in broth and the other loves fish especially tuna. He also loves real roast beef!

We were using Encore wet and dry but one of our cats broke into a rogue pack of Iams and they all became addicted to it. But since we switched two have had UTIs that were very difficult and expensive to treat. I’m also keen to get the tuna addict off tuna Encore as it’s all he will eat and I worry about his kidneys and mercury etc. They’ve all gone off wet Chicken Encore.

So is there a grain free, very healthy alternative to Encore with a complete dry food (chicken flavour dry is fine) and a very tasty wet food, ideally in broth or very liquid that is not tuna based but other fish or beef is fine. I want the healthiest possible without unnecessary additives.

Or do we make them sad for a few days but go back to Encore and cut out the fish until they eat chicken again?

I spent a lot of time trying to work this out and it's basically impossible. There is no good quality research comparing brands.

All that seems certain is the lower the grain the better and (sorry) dry food is inferior to wet and should by completely avoided for cats prone to UTIs, and probably male cats in general.

Encore is certainly superior to Iams but other grain free foods are probably on par with Encore, so I'd just find one they like. My four will all eat Katkin. They also like Untamed. Mostly like Applaws.

If anybody knows of research I missed I'd love a link.

Mine likes purizon chicken dry. It’s a fairly ‘moist’ dry so better on kidneys

Wet broth brands - miamor, applaws, wild freedom

Mine eat thrive dry and encore dry mixed in a big pouring tub. Thrive comes in chicken, chicken with turkey and salmon with herring i think.

My 2 won't eat 'good' wet food so get a mix of whatever i can get them to eat.

Thank you @ArtTheClownIsNotAMimethats helpful. This is my issue as I’ve searched and searched for good research but there’s nothing.

I’ll look at the brands you mentioned. Hopefully one of them will suit the whole gang.

Thank you @Caspianberg and @dementedpixie I’ll look at those too.

https://www.zooplus.co.uk/shop/cats/canned_cat_food_pouches/thrive_complete

There's a whole host of thrive wet flavours too

Mine won’t touch Untamed but loves Katkin. She has it one meal a day alongside a supermarket brand.

Marro does a trial pack, it’s frozen but you can keep it in the fridge also for 7 days

https://join.marro.com/our-menu/

Encore is ok as an occasionally food as it's a complementary food. Anything you feed on a daily basis should be a complete food, meaning it has all the nutrients, vitamins, minerals needed.
Thrive is a complete wet food, I think Blink is too. Ours has Thrive wet and dry with a small amount of Concept for life urinary food mixed in his dry having had bladder stones/crystals. Zooplus has loads of foods.
Honestly, it's a bloody minefield. I think crappy foods like Whiskas might be classed as complete but they're such crap.

My MC/Ragdoll cross boy just doesn't like wet food! Have tried all sorts. He loves Scrumbles, which is a grain-free dry food and you can get it in Tesco, Sainsburys, Pets at Home etc. My other two cats waiver in their food preferences but he has steadfastly stuck to his Scrumbles for the last year!

As I posted elsewhere, it has also had the massive benefit of preventing his poo from stinking to high heaven, and it's also a little more firm which means it doesn't stick to his long fur the way it did!

I'm not too worried about him only eating dry because he drinks a lot of water from his fountain during the day and so we've had no problems so far.

One of my girls begs twice a day for tinned tuna (in spring water, and know it's not ideal but I previously had two cats addicted to it who lived to be in and around 17) and the other expects freshly cooked chicken breasts on demand!