Homemade cat food lacks essential nutrients: Study

Washington: Cat lovers take note! Researchers have discovered that most of the homemade cat food lack essential nutrients and some food also contain ingredients potentially toxic for cats.
The study published in the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association is thought to be the first to examine homemade recipes for healthy adult cats.
Researchers evaluated 114 recipes from online sources and books. Forty per cent of the recipes did not provide any feeding instructions, and the remainder of them lacked detail or were unclear.
“Only 94 recipes provided enough information for computer nutritional analysis and of those none provided all the essential nutrients,” said lead author Jennifer Larsen.
Recipes lacked nutrients regardless of the source or whether they were written by veterinarians, although those authored by veterinarians had fewer deficiencies in essential nutrients.
Most recipes were lacking concentrations of three or more nutrients, with some lacking adequate amounts of up to 19 essential nutrients.