Steam & Dried Cage-free Chicken with Whole Mackerel Recipe for cats
Dry food · adult cats
A chicken-first dry food from Ziwi Peak. Price-matched at $9.00 per 1,000 kcal, verified 2026-07-13.
THE FACTS, ONE SENTENCE —data as JSON· reference cat 10 lb · updated 2026-07-12
$89.98 · 4.9 lb$2.35/day as of 2026-07-13 Check price →
Your catupdates every number on this page
10 lb
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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 № ZIWI-P verified 2026-07-12
Composition — dry-matter basis
why dry matter
Moisture hides the real recipe: dry food is ~5-10% water, wet food ~75-82%. Removing water puts every food on one scale, so these are the only nutrition numbers that can be compared across foods. As-fed label values shown small.
Protein43.2%label: 38% minhigher than 74% of dry cat foods
Fat31.8%label: 28% minno corpus anchor for fat yet
Fiber4.5%label: 4% maxtypical — the median dry cat food is 4.5%
Est. carbohydrates computed from disclosed ash≈6.8%diabetic-check target <10%lower than 96% of dry 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 verifiedmagnesiumno threshold to check — magnesium not in our verified record
Ash disclosed on label · label: 12% max12%as used in carb estimateno corpus anchor for ash yet
Calories & cost — for your 10-lb adult cat
Calorie density4500 kcal/kgper-serving value not disclosedno corpus anchor for this value
Daily serving—
Cost per day$2.35
Bag lasts—
Cost per 1,000 kcal: $9.00 — price-matched to a current retail listing (4.9-lb size), verified 2026-07-13. Serving math uses standard veterinary energy formulas — see the formula.
Standards & ingredients
AAFCO statement
what this means
Two kinds of AAFCO claims exist. Most foods are only "formulated to meet" nutrient profiles — a paper calculation. A smaller set carry the stronger claim: fed to real cats in AAFCO-procedure trials ("Animal feeding tests using AAFCO procedures substantiate…").
Not yet verified from label
First five ingredients (by pre-cooking weight)Chicken · Chicken Liver · Chicken Necks · Whole Mackerel · Chicken Bone (Source of Glucosamine and Chondroitin Sulfate)
Named animal protein first; named meals onlyYes
Legumes in first 10 (FDA DCM inquiry)2 (dried yellow peas, dried green lentils)
BHA / BHT preservativesNone on label
Carrageenan (thickener)None
Ethoxyquin
why unknown
When a fish-meal supplier adds ethoxyquin, U.S. rules don't require it on the finished label — so no label can prove its absence for recipes containing fish meal. We report this as a gap rather than guessing.
None — no fish meal in this recipe
Safety
FDA recalls — Ziwi Peak, since 2023None on record
ManufacturerNot confirmed from label
Label transparency 8 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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Life-stage coverage not disclosedNo AAFCO nutrient-adequacy statement was found on the label for this SKU, so we cannot confirm adult-maintenance coverage.
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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 4.5% 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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Contains chickenNot selected as a concern for your cat — shown here for reference.
✓
Estimated carbs fit a low-carb target≈6.8% carbohydrate (dry-matter, estimated) is under the ~10% DM target some vets use for diabetic/low-carb cats. Estimate only — not a lab measurement.
The source material
The full ingredient list
Every flag on the Verified Label is computed from this list. Ingredients are ordered by pre-cooking weight — the first five carry the most information.
The four 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 manufacturingOwns its plants
ZIWI built and operates its own NZ$85m production kitchen (largest pet-food factory in NZ) at Awatoto, Napier.
No fetched page names an individual with a board-certified veterinary-nutrition credential or PhD in animal nutrition; null per rule.
AAFCO feeding trialsUndisclosed
No feeding-trial AAFCO statement found on the 36 labels we’ve verified for this brand, and no company-wide claim was found either. Most pet foods are only "formulated to meet" AAFCO profiles (a paper calculation) rather than fed to real animals in trials — this is common, not necessarily a red flag.
Peer-reviewed researchNone found
A reproducible PubMed search (author-affiliation field, animal/pet-domain filtered) returns zero indexed papers for this brand name. Not proof no research exists — only that none is PubMed-indexed under this exact name.