The protagonist of today’s review (cat food) comes from a pet brand that develops comprehensively across all categories and adheres to the trend of frigidity—pidan!

As shown in the picture above, we have evaluated freeze-dried snacks, water dispensers, combs, and slow food bowls. However, judging from the results, except for small dried fish, everything else is "useless". "The surface is not ideal" series: the total number of bacteria in freeze-dried salmon is high (not exceeding the standard), the water dispenser is difficult to clean, the silicone comb is useless, the slow food bowl has no anti-skid and is like a bulldozer....

emmm, you haven’t made enough supplies yet, and you want to switch to staple food? And it’s still a high-priced cat food with a unit price of ￥40~50 per catty? !

For the sake of the die-hard fans of pidan who "use any means" to influence me, a procrastinator, with likes, it is better to choose the right day than to hit it. Guagua will arrange pidan freeze-dried cat food today. !

I wonder if this transformation of pidan will be like the door-to-door cat feeding service launched during the Spring Festival of a certain year.

In order to gain the trust of shit officials, domestic grains have also begun to rush "streaking". Although pidan also provides information on the proportion of raw materials, it only provides the source of two meat meal raw materials in terms of traceability.

Providing is better than not providing, right? However, don’t ignore a very crucial statement in the picture above: “The suppliers used in different batches are slightly different.” Doesn’t the overtone of the statement mean “I may secretly change suppliers, don’t take it too seriously”?

Because the characteristic of the freeze-drying process is that the meat will maintain its original size and shape after dehydration and will not "shrink" like the air-drying process, so the additional 10% freeze-dried particles added by pidan can be seen with the naked eye. The volume will be much more than 10%.

Even though I was mentally prepared, I was still surprised when I opened the bag of melons. Is this freeze-drying free of charge? There are too many!

This is not over yet. In addition to adding an additional 10% freeze-drying, pidan also uses 10 kinds of meat + 3 kinds of meat powder in the cat food particles, with the total meat proportion being as high as 72%.

Even ignoring the same meat in different forms, pidan uses 7 types of fish + 4 types of poultry as sources of animal protein, providing a rich amino acid combination, and does not use meat by-products and pure Plant protein, okk!

When I reviewed the "Spicy Chicken" cat food (Vibrant Maple Leaf), cat owners from all over the country left messages asking for "regionalization of cat food" to meet the taste needs of different cat owners:

Guangxi@王fufoot-soaking mushroom chicken king wants to eat snail powder cat food;

Shaanxi@a plum candy wants to eat a bowl of oily cat food;

Shandong@quality Animals hope to add some scallion sauce to cat food;

Henan @苏苏 complains that the current form of cat food is too single, and hopes that the brand will come up with a spicy noodle cat food;

Guangdong @zjiang has no requirements on taste, but only wants it to be produced in Fujian;

@Anisodamine, who was unwilling to disclose the coordinates, asked about the "Dark Cuisine" Zhejiang root-flavored cat food. Guagua found it today! !

In addition to common fruits and vegetables, the crude fiber source of the grain also uses Houttuynia cordata (Zheer root) - a dark raw material with a highly controversial taste, like stinky tofu, durian, coriander, and preserved eggs.

Whether it tastes good or not is one thing, but whether it can be eaten is another. Guagua checked and found out whether the aristolochiolactam II contained in Houttuynia cordata can cause kidney damage? Although there is still controversy, there is no big problem in adding a small amount to cat food.

In fact, Houttuynia cordata is widely used in veterinary clinical applications, but most cases are concentrated in horses, donkeys, cows and pigs. Is pidan added to cat food because of the diuretic effect of Houttuynia cordata?

However, regarding the diuretic effect of Houttuynia cordata, I have only found one case of a sow suffering from cystitis, and in addition to Houttuynia cordata injection, other pharmaceutical injections and medicinal materials are needed.. ..

Adding some dogtail root does not affect the safety of cat food, but if the owner suffers from urinary problems, please seek medical advice as soon as possible, stay in a good mood + increase the amount of water you drink (canned & freeze-dried water trick), thousands of Don’t expect that eating cat food with broken ears will have miraculous effects!

pidan cat food mainly uses chicken oil, fish oil and a small amount of olive oil as crude fat sources. Chicken oil & fish oil are common CPs of crude fat. The overall fat absorption and utilization rate is higher after the combination, but fish oil is not Explain what kind of fish it is.

It is quite surprising that expensive vegetable oils like olive oil appear in cat food, because like most affordable vegetable oils, they are of no use to cats and only increase costs.

Data source: USDA FOOD COMPOSITION DATABASE

Guagua really can’t understand, pidan chose to add olive oil, a vegetable oil based on monounsaturated fatty acids (Omega-9) What is the purpose? Omega-9 is not even an essential fatty acid. Although it is harmless, you cannot just add it because it is expensive.

It’s so bad that it costs 40 to 50 yuan per kilogram. Can the packaging be a little more relaxed?

To sum up, here is a score card:

I have recently evaluated several domestic cat foods. Although I did not say that the performance was perfect, it can be seen that the domestic cat food has improved significantly. Progress, but the price is prohibitive for the shit-savers...

Maybe we have subconsciously equated Made In China with "high quality and low price", and we can't quite understand why it is better. Domestic cat food is so expensive; or maybe we still lack trust in domestic food. Whether it is really worth the price has to wait and see...

After all, the money is our hard-earned money. Yes, we raised our little ones by pooping and peeing, so it is reasonable to care about price and quality. Our choices only need to be worthy of our wallets and our little ones.

As the old saying goes, if financial conditions permit, just choose the best cat food that is most suitable for the owner!