Purina Pro Plan Complete Essentials Beef & Carrots Entrée Grain Free Cat Food Review (2024)

Ingredient Analysis

When evaluating a cat food, the first five ingredients can tell you a lot about the quality of a product as they make up the bulk of the product. Ideally, you're looking for quality protein sources with a minimum of cheap starches, fillers or by-products. Continuing down the ingredient list, look for ingredients that resemble real food with a minimal number of unpronounceable chemicals - the same as you would for human food.

Purina Pro Plan Complete Essentials Beef & Carrots Entrée Grain Free includes the following:

Note - a bolded ingredient in the above tables indicates it is one of the first five ingredients listed by the product manufacturer.

In this case, Purina Pro Plan Complete Essentials Beef & Carrots Entrée Grain Free's most plentiful ingredient listed is beef, which is considered a quality protein source. It also contains chicken as additional quality protein sources.

However, this product also lists meat by-products within its top ingredients. By-products are typically considered inferior, lesser quality ingredients.

Please also be aware that this product contains guar gum, guar gum and carrageenan, which are additives that some experts claim may be possible contributors to certain medical conditions in cats.

Allergen alert: This product contains beef, fish and meat by-products which may be problematic for cats who suffer from beef, seafood or meat by-products food allergies.

Nutritional Analysis*

Compared to the other 2877 cat foods in our database, Purina Pro Plan Complete Essentials Beef & Carrots Entrée Grain Free has:

• an average amount of protein
• fewer carbohydrates than average
• an average amount of fat
• more fiber than average

In general, cats have been shown to do better with a higher protein, medium fat, lower carb diet with sufficient moisture. However, specialty diets as recommended by your veterinarian may prioritize a different nutritional breakdown.

Calorie Breakdown

Ingredients

Ingredients as published by the cat food manufacturer:

Beef, Liver, Meat By-products, Water Sufficient For Processing, Chicken, Carrots (dried), Fish, Artificial And Natural Flavors, Guar Gum, Potassium Chloride, Zinc Sulfate, Ferrous Sulfate, Manganese Sulfate, Copper Sulfate, Potassium Iodide, Choline Chloride, Taurine, Salt, Vitamin E Supplement, Thiamine Mononitrate (vitamin B-1), Niacin (vitamin B-3), Calcium Pantothenate (vitamin B-5), Vitamin A Supplement, Menadione Sodium Bisulfite Complex (vitamin K), Pyridoxine Hydrochloride (vitamin B-6), Riboflavin Supplement (vitamin B-2), Vitamin B-12 Supplement, Biotin (vitamin B-7), Folic Acid (vitamin B-9), Vitamin D-3 Supplement, Beef, Liver, Meat By-products, Water Sufficient For Processing, Chicken, Carrots (dried), Fish, Artificial And Natural Flavors, Guar Gum, Potassium Chloride, Zinc Sulfate, Ferrous Sulfate, Manganese Sulfate, Copper Sulfate, Potassium Iodide, Choline Chloride, Taurine, Salt, Carrageenan, Vitamin E Supplement, Thiamine Mononitrate (vitamin B-1), Niacin (vitamin B-3), Calcium Pantothenate (vitamin B-5), Vitamin A Supplement, Menadione Sodium Bisulfite Complex (vitamin K), Pyridoxine Hydrochloride (vitamin B-6), Riboflavin Supplement (vitamin B-2), Vitamin B-12 Supplement, Biotin (vitamin B-7), Folic Acid (vitamin B-9), Vitamin D-3 Supplement,

*Note that nutritional percentages reported are only estimated values, and are indicated as such as (est). Each cat food manufacturer is required by law to publish a Guaranteed Analysis, which defines each product's maximum values of fiber and moisture in addition to the minimum values of protein and fat contained within. Optionally, manufacturers may also publish a product's ash content. When they are not published an average of 3% ash for wet food, and 6% ash for dry food, will be used. Because exact nutritional percentages are not available and all calculated values (including carbohydrate percentages and calorie amounts) are determined using these minimum and maximum published values and therefore may differ from actual values. Any other manufacturer published values in a product's Guaranteed Analysis is done at the manufacture's discretion, and is not used in any of the calculations done by CatFoodDB.

Although a high score may be indicative of a higher-quality product it is not a guarantee. Similarly, a low score may or may not indicate an inferior product. The best food for your cat is the one that meets their individual needs.