How to provide healthy food for cats
In order to provide healthy food for cats, it must contain a group of different elements that provide cats with the energy necessary for their daily needs. Healthy cat food needs many elements, so that it can be a helpful factor in maintaining the health of your beloved cats. Amino acids, fats, vitamins, minerals and others are important elements that you must make sure to include in cats' diets on a daily basis.
Do you know that skin diseases may appear on your cat if you neglect to properly feed her?
Experts say that a healthy, balanced diet helps the health and freshness of the coat and hair of cats immensely. Therefore, you should be careful to provide healthy, balanced cat meals that contain the following elements:
Fat is one of the most important elements of a healthy cat food
Animal and vegetable fats and oils are one of the most important sources of energy for cats' vital systems to enable them to carry out normal daily activities. Also, the different fats and oils add more delicious taste to your cat's food and help increase its appetite for food. But on the other hand, fats provide a double amount of energy for your cat’s body than proteins provide, in other words, 1 gram of fat provides the cat’s body with twice the energy (calories) that you get from 1 gram of protein. Therefore, excessively introducing fats in your cat's food may lead to an increase in her weight and thus obesity. Experts advise to balance the amount of fat provided to cats so that they can perform their vital functions normally and at the same time do not suffer from obesity, heart and other diseases.
Experts advise to balance the amount of fat provided to cats so that they can perform their vital functions normally and at the same time do not suffer from obesity, heart and other diseases. We always recommend adding one teaspoon twice a week to the main meal for cats from one of the following options, but not all (olive oil - fish oil - an omega-3 capsule)
The second ingredient in a healthy cat diet: protein
Protein is the second important component of a healthy diet that you should offer your cat from time to time. When a cat eats meals that contain protein, the cat's digestive system breaks down protein molecules into the essential amino acids for that food. Then these amino acids are absorbed and recombined again to produce the specific form of protein that the cat needs to help it perform its various vital functions. Therefore, if you do not provide adequate amounts of protein in your cat's food, there may be an imbalance in the metabolism or metabolism, which will follow the cat's weight loss, general weakness and lethargy.
Also, excess protein over the required limit may exacerbate kidney disease in cats Therefore, you must ensure a balance in your cat's food, and in general the meal should contain approximately 35% of its components on protein.
3- Carbohydrates are the third ingredient in healthy cat food
Cats are carnivores, that is, they are animals that depend on meat for their food, so many believed in the past that carbohydrates were not of great importance to cats. But cat nutrition experts have recently proven that healthy cats can use carbohydrates as the source of the energy they need. Therefore, to maintain the nutritional balance of your cat's food, add carbohydrates in moderate amounts to cat food. We suggest adding 30% of your portion size in the form of carbohydrates, for example boiled potatoes and whole grains. Potatoes and whole grains also contain vitamins, minerals, fiber and fatty acids that benefit the health of your pet.
4- Other ingredients to add the ideal nutritional value to your cat
In addition to fats, protein and carbohydrates, there are other ingredients that help provide a healthy meal for cats. An example of this is vitamins that help strengthen your cat's immune system, so they must be added in very small quantities to your cat's food. The same applies to the essential minerals that provide the cat's body with energy and health, so they are essential in a balanced diet for cats, but also in small quantities. These ingredients are found in vegetables and fruits, so adding vegetables such as boiled potatoes or boiled zucchini helps in the health and vitality of cats.
How do I prepare a healthy, balanced meal for my cat?
Certainly, it is very difficult to hold a scale to measure the quantities of food every time, so we on the Veterinary Clinics Guide website provided a list of 7 recipes to prepare food for your cat in a healthy, delicious and balanced way.
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