Now Fresh Grain-Free Kitten Recipe

Now Fresh offers a grain-free kitten recipe that’s easier for kittens to digest. It’s packed with plenty of taurine and essential fatty acids for a growing kitten, though it’s quite low in DHA with a combined EPA and DHA level of just 0.05%. Looking at the first five ingredients, we were surprised to see peas, potatoes, and potato flour, which are still poor choices for any cat food. While there are several animal-based ingredients, only one of them is listed in the top five. Deboned turkey is the first ingredient, but you won’t find another meat-based protein until the 11th ingredient, after you see both canola oil and coconut oil.

This is a very expensive dry kitten food. A three-pound bag costs more than a six-pound bag of some recipes from other companies. In its defense, there are a lot of whole-food ingredients here to supply vitamins and minerals, like pumpkin, carrots, sweet potatoes, bananas, blueberries, pomegranate, and more. But there are few animal-based proteins here, which might be why picky eaters don’t seem to like this food. For the price, Now Fresh Grain-Free just doesn’t seem to offer as much as we’d like.