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Natural Balance Grain Free Chicken & Green Pea Formula

Dry food · adult cats

A formulated-to-meet dry food from Natural Balance, lighter per cup than 77% of the dry cat foods we've verified. Cat-food pricing isn't in our corpus for this SKU yet, so cost-per-day isn't shown — the composition numbers below are fully verified.

THE FACTS, ONE SENTENCE — data as JSON · reference cat 10 lb · updated 2026-07-12

Your catupdates every number on this page
10 lb

Joint, kidney, dental or heart concerns? Labels can't honestly answer those — that's vet territory. Why we don't checkmark them →

The evidence

The Verified Label

Every food on this site gets this exact panel — same fields, same order, sourced from the official label — so brands finally become comparable. Dots show where this food sits among all 283 dry cat foods we've verified.

Verified LabelThe standardized pet-food panel
VPFD № NATURA
verified 2026-07-12

Composition — dry-matter basis

why dry matter
Dry food is ~5-10% water, wet food ~75-82%, so as-fed numbers are on two different scales. As-fed values shown small. How the conversion works →
Protein Not yet verifiedlabel min: —% no corpus anchor for this value
Fat 13.3%label: 12% min no corpus anchor for fat yet
Fiber 5%label: 4.5% max typical — the median dry cat food is 4.5%
Est. carbohydrates ash not disclosed → 8% assumed, so this is an estimate Not yet verifiedneeds protein/fat/fiber no corpus anchor for this value
Magnesium as fed: not yet verified
why 0.12% DM
A commonly cited veterinary target for helping manage struvite-crystal (urinary) risk in cats is magnesium under roughly 0.12% on a dry-matter basis. This is a general, label-checkable guideline — not a diagnosis, and not a substitute for your vet, especially for cats with a history of urinary issues.
 Not yet verifiedmagnesium no threshold to check — magnesium not in our verified record
Ash not yet verified, no default available Not yet verifiedash no corpus anchor for ash yet

Calories & cost — for your 10-lb adult cat

Calorie density 380 kcal/cup3595 kcal/kg lighter than 77% of dry cat foods (median 415)
Daily serving¾ cups
Cost per day—
Bag lasts—

No cost per 1,000 kcal yet: we haven't matched this cat food to a store listing. Serving math uses standard veterinary energy formulas — see the formula.

Standards & ingredients

AAFCO statement
what this means
Two claims exist: formulated to meet a profile, or fed to real cats in an AAFCO trial. Which is stronger, and how rare it is →
 Formulated to meet · maintenance
First five ingredients (by pre-cooking weight)Full ingredient list not yet verified
Named animal protein first; named meals onlyNot yet verified
Legumes in first 10 (FDA DCM inquiry)Not yet verified
BHA / BHT preservativesNot yet verified
Carrageenan (thickener)Not yet verified
Ethoxyquin
why unknown
A preservative added by a fish-meal supplier need not appear on the finished label, so no label can prove its absence. Why we show gaps →
 Fish-meal content not confirmed

Safety

FDA recalls — Natural Balance, since 2023None on record
ManufacturerNot confirmed from label
Label transparency 9 of 15 standard fields
Green = verified favorable · amber = gap in the record · red = verified unfavorable · gray = not disclosed / neutral fact.
Source: official label source (official) · anchors: 283 verified dry cat foods · how to read this label

The fit

For your cat, specifically

Checked for a 10-lb adult cat with urinary health + a low-carb goal — the same published criteria our finder uses. Change your cat above and these update.

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Validated for adult catsAAFCO statement covers adult maintenance.
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Urinary fit — can't assessMagnesium is not disclosed on this label, so the urinary/struvite check cannot be run — most cat food labels omit it entirely (only a small share of the cat foods we've verified disclose magnesium at all).
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Fiber 5% DMNot selected as a concern for your cat — shown here for reference.
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Sensitive stomachNot selected for your cat — but shown here for reference.
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Chicken content not disclosedWe could not confirm whether chicken is in the ingredient list.
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Low-carb fit — can't assessEstimated carbohydrate needs protein, fat, fiber and ash to compute, and at least one of those is not disclosed for this SKU.

The source material

The full ingredient list

Every flag above is computed from this list. Why order is by pre-cooking weight, and how splitting bends it →

Full ingredient list not yet available for this SKU — only the fields verified above are shown. See the source for what’s currently confirmed.

The maker

Who makes this — and how they back it up

The five questions the WSAVA nutrition guidelines tell you to ask a pet-food company. Every answer is sourced or marked as an undisclosed gap — never guessed. This is the "is it made competently?" axis that star-rating sites skip.

Owns its manufacturing Mixed

Company-owned plant (Brownwood, TX) AND external co-packers = mixed.

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Employs a qualified nutritionist Undisclosed

References a 'PhD small animal nutritionist' but names no individual and states no DACVN/ACVN credential.

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AAFCO feeding trials No — sourced

says: recipes meet AAFCO profiles by formulation/analysis, not life-stage feeding trials. Feeding studies are third-party palatability and digestibility only. Judgment call: not an explicit 'we do not do AAFCO feeding trials'.

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Publishes quality-control testing Yes — sourced

covers: pathogen testing (Salmonella, STEC listed on page), toxin/mycotoxin testing. Brand own page. FAQ (naturalbalanceinc.com/faq/) also says regular testing for nutrient content, microbiological safety (e.g., Salmonella), toxins, oxidation, plus packaging/shelf-life evaluations and ingredient validation (all five WSAVA elements).

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Peer-reviewed research None found

PubMed lists no animal or pet paper with Natural Balance Pet Foods / Ethos Pet Brands in an author address. Not proof no research exists — only that none is indexed under that company name.

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Parent company Ethos Pet Brands (co-owned by L Catterton and Nexus Capital Management) ↗ Founded 1989 ↗ Headquarters / plant Burbank, California, USA ↗ FDA recalls on record 5 on record

Full company scorecard, sources, and every SKU we've verified for this brand: Natural Balance brand page →