Diamond Food’s Maintenance Formula Cat Food

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Diamond Food’s Maintenance Formula Cat Food

Diamond Food’s Maintenance Formula for Cats is designed to sustain a cat’s nutritional needs throughout their adult life. The first five ingredients include chicken, whole grain corn, wheat flour, chicken fat, and brewers rice. The guaranteed analysis of this formula includes 30% protein and 15% fat.
 

Diamond Food’s Maintenance Formula Cat Food Review

We are going to take a look at the first five ingredients of Diamond Food’s Maintenance Formula Cat Food. The first five ingredients are a good indication of the quality of cat food. The ingredients before the first fat source usually make up the vast majority of the cat food.
 

    Chicken by-product meal, whole grain ground corn, wheat flour, chicken fat (preserved with mixed tocopherols), brewers rice, corn gluten meal, beet pulp, fish meal, sodium bisulfate, flaxseed, natural chicken flavor, salt, choline chloride, methionine, potassium chloride, taurine, zinc proteinate, vitamin E supplement, niacin, manganese proteinate, copper proteinate, zinc sulfate, manganese sulfate, copper sulfate, thiamine mononitrate, vitamin A supplment, biotin, potassium iodide, calcium pantothenate, riboflavin, pyridoxine hydrochloride (vitamin B6), vitamin B12 supplement, manganous oxide, sodium selenite, vitamin D supplement, folic acid.

    First Five Ingredients Analysis:

    1. Chicken By Products
    2. Whole Grain Ground Corn
    3. Wheat Flour
    4. Chicken Fat
    5. Brewers Rice
    Chicken By-Product Meal - consists of the ground, rendered, clean parts of the carcass of slaughtered chicken, such as necks, feet, undeveloped eggs and intestines, exclusive of feathers, except in such amounts as might occur unavoidable in good processing practice.

    Whole Grain Ground Corn - the entire ear of corn ground, without husks, with no greater portion of cob than occurs in the ear corn in its natural state.

    Wheat Flour - wheat flour together with fine particles of wheat bran, wheat germ and the offal from the "tail of the mill". This product must be obtained in the usual process of commercial milling and must not contain more than 1.5 percent crude fiber.

    Chicken Fat - First fat source. This ingredient is a named fat source which is a plus.

    Brewers Rice - unpolished rice after the kernels have been removed. Not a complete AAFCO definition.

    Crude Protein 30.0% Minimum

    Crude Fat 15.0% Minimum

    Crude Fiber 3.0% Maximum

    Moisture 10.0% Maximum

    Ash 6.0% Maximum

    Calcium 0.8% Minimum

    Phosphorus 0.65% Minimum

    Potassium 0.7% Minimum

    Magnesium 0.1% Maximum

    Selenium 0.4 mg/kg Minimum

    Vitamin E 100 IU/kg Minimum

    Taurine 0.1% Minimum

    Omega-6 Fatty Acids * 2.4% Minimum

    Omega-3 Fatty Acids * 0.4% Minimum

Diamond Food’s Maintenance Formula Cat Food Consumer Ratings

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Rating (out of 10)

Overall Ingredients

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First Five Ingredients

This score is based on the first five ingredients
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Protein Content

This score is based on the total meat protein content
 1

Grain Content

More Grains = Lower score and No Grains= 10
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Total

 1.75
2 Responses to “Diamond Food’s Maintenance Formula Cat Food”
  1. Nance Says:
    September 12th, 2009 at 9:33 am

    I have been feed my cats 5-Diamond for just over six months now, starting with a 3 month gradual introduction, mixing with the kibble they’d been eating for years.

    Although the cats are eating 5-Diamond, I’ve noted that they are much messier with this food.
    1. The kibble seems to break down into tiny pieces. I’d say approximately one third of the food ends up into tiny pieces.
    2. Unusually, I’m finding more food outside of the bowl requiring more cleanup. This is a new habit for my girls, which leads me to believe that they’re not quite as interested in it (due to flavor? texture?) and are playing with this kibble.

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  1. Diamond Cat Food says:
    July 14, 2009 at 7:08 pm

    […] Diamond Food’s Maintenance Formula for Cats Cat Food is designed to sustain a cat’s nutritional needs throughout their adult life. The first five ingredients include chicken, whole grain corn, wheat flour, chicken fat, and brewers rice. The guaranteed analysis of this formula includes 30% protein and 15% fat. […]

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