tuna

For cats

The caution is about tuna as a staple, not tuna in a recipe: unbalanced all-tuna feeding has been associated with vitamin E deficiency (steatitis) in cats, and large predatory fish carry more mercury than small forage fish. In a complete, balanced formula tuna is fine; if tuna is most of what your cat eats, that is a vet conversation.

Can cats eat tuna every day?

Tuna as one ingredient of a complete, balanced formula is fine. Tuna as the diet is the problem: unbalanced all-tuna feeding has been associated with vitamin E deficiency (steatitis) in cats, and tuna carries more mercury than small forage fish. If tuna is most of what your cat eats, that is a vet conversation.

Does tuna contain mercury?

Tuna is a large predatory fish, and it accumulates more mercury than small forage fish like sardines or herring. In a balanced formula the dose is a different thing from an all-tuna diet — the caution is about tuna as a staple, not tuna in a recipe.

How does Bowlmark score tuna in cat food?

Tuna is on the engine's named-protein list: 15 points on the ingredient-quality pillar when fresh tuna leads the label, or 12 for a named tuna meal. The cat-specific staple caution is informational context on this page — it does not change the score.

Compare foods that list tuna

Same species, same form, both scored — closest scores first, so the comparison is a real one.

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