Hills v Aldi premium cat food

emlou2009

i actually looked at the aldi cat food today to see what the meat content was, and the premium chicken one has a minimum 20% chicken in it, but i couldnt remember if that was good or not? mine is still a kitten so i wouldnt feed it to him yet anyway.

robert_harper_2000

I think it is tricky to know for sure what is best, but in the end you do pay for what you get and at Aldi prices I doubt they could make a decent product. I don't mind swapping brands as I believe if one food was deficent in one thing then by swapping every now and again they get it in others. Obviously by swapping you can take advantage of what is on offer. Stick with Applaws, Orijen, JWB, Arden Grange and make sure get some decent wet.

emlou2009

i beg to differ on what you say about aldi prices meaning the products cant be that good, as their products are generally excellent
i buy lots of our food and toiletries there, and i've not had or used anything thats disappointed me yet. pet food is about the only thing i've not tried

Fire_Fox

emlou2009 wrote: »

i beg to differ on what you say about aldi prices meaning the products cant be that good, as their products are generally excellent
i buy lots of our food and toiletries there, and i've not had or used anything thats disappointed me yet. pet food is about the only thing i've not tried

I know Aldi products are generally decent, and we aren't suggesting their cat food is any worse than any other supermarket own brand. Dry cat food is one area where you never seem to get a quality product below £4 per kilo; all the supermarket own and commercial brands (Go Cat, Whiskas) are just 4% meat. :eek: Compare that to Hills Science which is 50% and Applaws which is 80% meat.

However it would be really helpful if someone did post the full ingredients list of the basic and premium Aldi foods so we can actually discuss the facts rather than making an educated guess!!

emlou2009

well if whiskas is 4% meat then it must be better, as it says minimum 20% chicken on it? i'll try and remember to take a photo on my phone of the ingredients next time i go and post it up so we can all have a look :rotfl:

they do a "normal" one and a premium one, which was the one i looked at today.

Petal_3

Hi there

I have 1 x Maine Coon, 2 x Norwegian Forests and 1 x Pixiebob and am feeding mostly raw. I ordered food from food4cats (their sample pack is £10) and supplement with additional chunks of meat...venison, chicken etc.

It does take some reading up to feed raw - still reading!

I think supermarket high meat content wet foods are : Asda - Feline Fayre (60% meat from memory), Sainsbury's - Encore (75% from memory), Hi-Life (60%) - Waitrose & Sainsbury , Tesco's Luxury.

Prudent

Aldi Ingredients (as listed) :

cereals, meat and animal derivatives, oils and fats, fish & fish derivatives (min 14%) , derivatives of vegetable origin, Egg & egg derivatives yeast, minerals with antioxident EC additive.

This is for the rich in fish variety.

MrsTinks

I love the wording though: fish & fish derivatives (min 14%) anyone care to hazard a guess at "fish derivatives"?
And like already pointed out - we're not saying that Aldi is any worse than other supermarket brands

When I picked Arden Grange (and I know I harp on about it - it's only because it's the one I know the most about because it's the one I use - not because it's better than other good pet foods out there...) I looked up exactly what their ingredients were - I did balk at the "chicken meal" etc until I looked it up in their glossary and found out it wasn't the same as "derivatives"

robert_harper_2000

Plus Arden Grange is 2.5kg and cheap than the others

Fire_Fox

emlou2009 wrote: »

well if whiskas is 4% meat then it must be better, as it says minimum 20% chicken on it? i'll try and remember to take a photo on my phone of the ingredients next time i go and post it up so we can all have a look :rotfl:

they do a "normal" one and a premium one, which was the one i looked at today.

It wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if Aldi food was better than Whiskas: you aren't paying for the advertising. The same with Hills Science - they must spend a king's ransom on plugging their products to vets and sponsoring pet diet clubs. I've chosen fish varieties below as that's what Prudent posted for Aldi.

Whiskas ingredients:
Cereals, Meat and Animal Derivatives (min 4% Meat in the Meaty Nuggets Filling), Vegetable Protein Extracts, Oils and Fats, Derivatives of Vegetable Origin, Minerals, Fish and Fish Derivatives (min 4% Tuna in the Medium Brown Kibbles), Vegetables (min 4% Carrots in the Orange Kibbles, min 4% Peas in the Green Kibbles)
Felix:
Cereals, Meat and animal derivatives, Vegetable protein extracts, Fish and fish derivatives (min 4% Salmon in the red-brown pellets, min 4% Tuna in the light-brown pellets, min 4% Trout in the brown pellets), Oils and fats, Derivatives of vegetable origin, Minerals, Yeasts.
Hills Science:
Ground Rice, Dehydrated Chicken and Turkey Protein, Maize Gluten Meal, Animal Fat, Ground Maize, Dehydrated Tuna Protein (Min. Tuna 9%), Cellulose, Digest, Potassium Chloride, Calcium Carbonate, Soybean Mill Run, Dl-Methionine, Fish Oil, Taurine, Salt, Vitamins and Trace Elements. Naturally Preserved with Mixed Tocopherols, Citric Acid and Rosemary Extract
Applaws 80%
dried chicken, dried salmon, dried potato, poultry oil, salmon oil, beet mash, dried whole egg, dried yeast, cellulose plant fibre, cranberry extract, yucca extract, citrus extract, rosemary oil extract.

The difference is between feeding your cat a box of corn flakes at the bottom end of the market, to feeding your cat the pickings off your Sunday roast chicken at the top end of the market. Finances have to come into play here for many of us - but I do think the commercial brands and many of the own brands are a false economy. There is a Pets at Home own brand called Purely More Meat that is 70% meat, but it doesn't appear on the website for some reason.