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Natural Balance Salmon Recipe Paté

Wet food · all cats

A formulated-to-meet wet food from Natural Balance, denser per can than 95% of the wet 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 732 wet 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 40.9%label: 9% min lower than 90% of wet cat foods
Fat 22.7%label: 5% min no corpus anchor for fat yet
Fiber 6.8%label: 1.5% max no corpus anchor for wet-food fiber yet
Est. carbohydrates ash not disclosed → 8% assumed, so this is an estimate ≈15.9%diabetic-check target <10% higher than 86% of wet cat foods
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 8% assumed — not disclosed on label 3%as used in carb estimate no corpus anchor for ash yet

Calories & cost — for your 10-lb adult cat

Calorie density 181 kcal/can— kcal/kg denser than 95% of wet cat foods (median 74)
Daily serving1½ cans
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 · all_life_stages
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 5 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: 732 verified wet 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 6.8% 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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Too many estimated carbs for a low-carb target≈15.9% carbohydrate (dry-matter, estimated) is over the ~10% DM target some vets use for diabetic/low-carb cats. Estimate only — not a lab measurement. See lower-carb options →

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.

Nutritional twins

Priced close matches

This food has no verified price yet — these are the closest label matches that do.

Merrick Purrfect Bistro Grain Free Turkey Pate Wet Cat Food
40.9% protein (DM)$15.01 / 1,000 kcal
Friskies Paté Salmon Dinner
40.9% protein (DM)$4.80 / 1,000 kcal
Friskies Paté Country Style Dinner
40.9% protein (DM)$4.68 / 1,000 kcal

Label-composition matches only: same species, form, and growth stage; same primary protein where both are known; grain-free preserved; protein within 4 points and fat within 4 points, and estimated carbs within 8 points, on a dry-matter basis. Not a medical or quality recommendation.

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 →