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Yes. Friskies dry cat food is an excellent choice of cat food. I've given it to my cats several times and they loved it. It is perfectly safe.

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Its mostly safe, but Friskies is a terrible quality food. The first ingredients on the dry foods are "Ground yellow corn, corn gluten meal". Cats are strict carnivores - they get all their nutrition and energy from Proteins and Fats in fresh meat. Therefore a food truly suitable for a cat is one with meat FIRST on the list, not corn.

Corn Gluten Meal is also one of the most common causes of Allergies in foods. See Related Links for the URL

Next there is: chicken by-product meal, meat and bone meal, soybean meal, beef tallow preserved with mixed-tocopherols (form of Vitamin E), turkey by-product meal, powdered cellulose, animal liver flavor

  • By-Product Meal are the leftover parts of the animal (lungs, spleen, kidneys, brain, liver, blood, bone, some fatty tissue, and stomach and intestines). Not very good quality, but better than corn.
  • Meat Meal is terrible; its the rendered (moisture and fat removed) "waste" tissues of an animal. Very low quality which has little Protein in.
  • Soybean meal is soy that is added to cat food for the protein benefit, but because its a plant it gives barely any nutritional value whatsoever. The possible allergic reaction to soy makes it an ingredient to avoid. Many cat foods have banned any soy product being used in the their foods.
  • Beef Tallow is essentially rendered fat. This gives the food a bit of flavour. The "animal liver flavor" is just flavouring, too.

Other things in the list that are worrying: added color (Yellow 6, Yellow 5, Red 40, Blue 2 and other color), there is also added salt (too much salt over a period of time could seriously harm a cat), dried cheese powder (more flavour).

Needless to say, Friskies is very poor quality which some ingredients could cause allergies.

There are foods that are completely free of these ingredients, with Named Meat sources at the first of the Ingredients list. Such high-quality foods are much healthier for a cat and much easier to digest. Cats are carnivores and they cannot digest such high quantities of grain and corn. It often gets stored as fat which is the main cause of obesity.

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