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What does “high digestibility” actually mean? Find out here what makes highly digestible cat food and how you can find a suitable food for your cat.
A particularly high digestibility means that the nutrients in the food can be easily absorbed by your cat's body and are then available for metabolic processes without complex digestion and conversion processes. The higher the digestibility, the less metabolic end products remain as "waste" that could strain your cat's body. Therefore, high digestibility is extremely important, especially for sensitive animals.
A good cat food is based on meat, poultry, offal or fish as protein suppliers (protein suppliers). However, since cats are carnivores by nature, carbohydrates (e.g. from cereals or vegetables) are diffcult for your cat to digest and should not be contained in excessive amounts in the feed. If the carbohydrates have already been cooked or cooked, their digestibility increases for your cat. This means that the manufacturing process of cat food also affects the digestibility of a product. In the production process of cooking extrusion (hydrothermal digestion process), the feed is mixed and kneaded into a dough and then pressed through a nozzle using steam at high temperatures and high pressure, So croquettes can be made in different shapes, The high temperature also ensures an ideal digestion of the raw materials, especially the carbo hydrates. Heat-sensitive substances such as vitamins are added to the feed after extrusion, because these should of course not be missing. Thus, extruded croquettes - like those from Happy Cat - have a very good digestibility and are therefore optimally tolerated. With good cat food, the addition of sugar, flavor enhancers and artificial flavors is also avoided, because they have no use for your cat. On the contrary, sugar can even be unhealthy - especially for cats who are already underSuffer from cat diabetes .
Despite the optimal nutrient composition, the digestibility of the cat food can differ depending on the cat. It only helps to try it out and use the cat's droppings to decide whether the cat can digest the food well. You can judge the digestibility of the food you give your cat based on the amount of feces, If the digestibility is high, your cat will absorb most of the food and metabolize it - so the amount of feces is small. If the digestibility is only 10 percent lower, the amount of feces is doubled. The less feces, the better your cat can digest the food.
Highly digestible feed should also lead to droppings with a shaped, ie frmer consistency. Flatulence, too much feces and too soft a consistency indicate that your cat cannot digest too much of its food. This happens in part when there is too much diffcult to digest protein in the feed. The higher the quality of the raw materials used, the higher the digestibility of the feed - and accordingly the higher the quality of the feed itself.