1. Yucca Extract
This is added in by pet food
manufacturers to reduce
odour in faeces, however
PurrForm is made with high
human grade meat and
therefore the odour is
already reduced. And
because PurrForm recipes
are highly digestible faeces
are very small. Remember
High quality ingredients =
less faeces and less odour!
Simply Pure & Natural Frozen
Cat Food
Why some raw cat
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following
ingredients and
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2. GreenTea
There a lot of variation on
the use of green tea in cat
food. Some say it helps
reduce body weight by
satisfying appetite and
burning more calories. In
essence this would mean
that if it help burning
calorie your cat would eat
more food, which is great
for the pet food
manufacturers!!!
Some other say that it has
a deodorant effect so that
faeces and urine of cats
and dogs may not
make a foul smell. Such
pet food often contains a
very small quantity (from
0.01 to 0.02 % by weight)
of a green tea extract as
an additive, whose
principal ingredient is
tannin, which has an
antibacterial effect.
.

3. In reality green tea extract is
used to prevent Feline
Gingivitis and periodontal
diseases which are the most
common gum disease in cats
today.
If you want to read more
heres is the link when the
product was patent.
http://www.google.com/patents/
EP0951838A1?cl=en
It is also a very good
antioxidant.
GreenTea cont…
Since cats and dogs hate a
bitter and astringent taste
of a green tea extract, only a
few manufacturers add a
very small quantity of that
to pet food.
Remember a high protein
diet is highly digestible and
therefore faeces rarely
smell.

4. Cranberries
Cranberries are added to help
acidify the food to maintain
proper urinary tract health.
A cat's natural raw meat diet
maintains a proper pH
balance and therefore this
ingredient is not require.
Cranberries has the same
property than the Grape
seed.
Grape seed
Grape seed is a natural
plant that is rich in
polyphenols or in simple
term micronutrients. The
polyphenols contained in
grape seed are considered
to be powerful antioxidants.
The fruit extracts are rich in
anthocyanins which display
antioxidant activity by
quenching singlet oxygen
and therefore preventing
the photo-oxidation

5. Grape seed cont…
of pigments or loss of colour
and deterioration of the
product.
Anthocyanins is a pigment
that may appear in
red, purple or blue which act
as a colorant.
In a nutshell this ingredient is
added to retain the colour of
the raw meat.
If the raw meat is vacuum
packed and blast freezed
the colour and freshness
is retain naturally.
Grape seed has
demonstrated the ability
to stop the degradation of
fat in stored compositions.
Additional health benefits
that grape seeds provide
to a companion animal
ingesting the composition
include antioxidant activity
and promotion of healthy
circulation.

6. Mannan-ologisaccharides
Mannan-oligosaccharides
(MOS) are prebiotics derived
from yeasts. MOS attaches
to bad bacteria in the
gut, such as salmonella. Once
bad bacteria is attached to
the MOS, they are simple
excreted and removed from
the digestive system
as waste.This prebiotic
limits pathogenic
bacterial development. It
has a positive effect on
nutrient
digestibility, improves
faecal quality and assists
with natural immune.
Cats are built to handle
bacterial loads from food
that would cause
significant illness to
humans.Your pet's body is
well equipped to deal with
heavy doses of familiar

7. Mannan-ologisaccharides
and strange bacteria
because nature built him to
catch, kill and immediately
consume his prey.
Cat's stomach is highly
acidic, with a pH range of
1-2.5. Nothing much can
survive that acidic
environment –
It exists to keep your pet
safe from potentially
contaminated raw meat
and other consumables.
The bottom line is
potentially harmful
bacteria reside in your
pet's GI tract whether you
feed raw foods or the
processed stuff. In other
words, your pet is already
'contaminated' with
Salmonella.

8. Dicalcium Phosphate
The typical dicalcium
phosphate manufacturing
process includes first a
degreasing
step of fine crushed bones in
hot water (80° to 85°C).
Regularly shaking removes a
high percentage of proteins.
The dried bone chips then
undergo a demineralisation
process: they are submitted
over a total period of 4-5
days, to a sequence of
solutions
with an increasing
hydrochloric acid
concentration. The highest
concentration being
4% of HCl during 2 days.
This demineralisation of the
fine bone chips produces a
phosphoric liquor and
osseine chips. In the typical
dicalcium production

9. Dicalcium Phosphate
cont ...
The osseine obtained is
further used for the
production of gelatine.
Though dicalcium
phosphate isn't the best
possible source of calcium
because of its low quantity
of calcium as a percent of
weight, it's still a source of
this important mineral.
Bone is a natural source of
calcium and meat a natural
source of phosphorus.
process, the liquor, after
treatment with lime, will give
a precipitate of dicalcium
phosphate.This precipitate is
essored and air dried with
inlet temperatures of 270°-
325 °C during 15 minutes and
outlet temperatures of 60-
65°C.

10. This information is for educational
purposes only and is not intended to
replace the advice of your own
veterinarian.
We hope this has giving
you a better understanding
on how to read pet food
labels