Farmina cat food: reviews from veterinarians and owners, composition

Description of Farmina food

The Farmina company produces food and vitamins for spayed and neutered pets.

Dry food marked Neutered (translated from English as “castrated”) is suitable for all breeds of cats. They are enriched with vitamins, minerals, micro- and macroelements. Their task is to prevent obesity and urolithiasis (UCD).

Farmina Matisse Neutered - premium nutrition. The source of animal protein is chicken. The food contains up to 40% meat ingredients (fillet and offal). It also contains rice and corn.

Farmina Cimiao Neutered Male and Farmina Cimiao Neutered Female are super premium diets. They are distinguished by a high content of meat components - up to 50%. Food marked Male is intended for males, Female - for females. Diets differ in the amount of protein they contain. The food for cats contains 38% protein, for cats - 34%. Cimiao diets include rice and corn.

Farmina produces holistic products (low-grain and grain-free). The line is called Natural&Delicious (N&D) and includes the following foods for spayed and neutered animals:

1. Low Grain Cat Chicken/Pomegranate Neutered. The low grain diet contains 24% fresh chicken fillet, 24% dehydrated chicken meat, fresh and dehydrated herring, hydrolyzed animal protein, chicken and fish oils. Added 10% spelled and 10% oats.
2. Grain Free Cat Chicken/Pomegranate Neutered. The food is grain-free. It includes 30% fresh chicken fillet, 28% dehydrated chicken meat, fish and chicken fats, fresh and dehydrated herring, hydrolyzed animal protein. The meat recipe is supplemented with herbs, fruits and vegetables. Grain-free food, unlike low-grain food, is more nutritious. It contains 46% protein.
3. Grain Free Cat Pumpkin Neutered Quail. This is a grain-free food based on quail meat, pumpkin and pomegranate. It contains 32% fresh quail meat, 30% dehydrated quail meat, 5% dehydrated pumpkin, fish and chicken fats, fresh and dehydrated herring, hydrolyzed fish protein. Contains vegetables, fruits and herbs. Crude protein contains 46%.

Farmavit-Active for neutered male and female cats is a vitamin and mineral complex based on methionine and microcellulose. Cats up to 4 kg are recommended to take 1 tablet daily, over 4 kg - 2 tablets per day. Farmavit-Active takes care of the health of the urinary tract, provides pets with minerals, vitamins, macro- and microelements. For preventive purposes, the course is repeated every 3 months.

Farmina N&D cat food review

Farmina food is produced in Italy. However, sometimes the manufacturer indicates another country on the packaging - Serbia or Brazil. There are factories in these countries that also produce it.

Farmina food is very expensive, but it contains many useful substances for your pet.

The product is divided into 2 types - low-grain and grain-free. Almost 70% of the diet consists of proteins, the remaining 30% are vegetables, fruits, various healthy supplements and vitamins.

For your information! Several lines of food are produced - 2 professional and 4 commercial. They have a low glycemic index, which reduces the risk of developing dangerous diseases.

The development of the composition and technologies is carried out independently, but the opinions of consumers and veterinarians, and international standards are taken into account.

There are certain principles for each pet food factory:

• special production technology that allows you to preserve nutrients in full;
• vitamins are added after previous processing, as a result of which they are not destroyed during the production process;
• useful substances are added to the finished granules using a vacuum, which allows them to be preserved until the expiration date;
• production is set up in such a way that the feed reaches the end consumer almost immediately and does not remain to sit in warehouses.

Farmina food pleases pets and their owners with its composition, which contains many useful and natural elements. For production use:

• meat, fish, eggs as protein;
• To maintain the required fat content, add poultry or fish oil;
• beets or peas, which allow you to saturate the food with healthy fiber;
• natural prebiotics that have a beneficial effect on the digestive system.

Note! The variety of cat food is quite wide. This allows you to choose the most suitable food for your furry pet.

Farmina Tim Breder - professional type of nutrition

Indications for use of the complex

Feeding diets labeled Neutered is indicated for cats that have had their testes removed and cats that have had their ovaries removed (with or without the uterus).

Specialized nutrition is best used when the pet reaches 1 year. Food for kittens up to 12 months is recommended.

If an animal is found to be allergic to corn, premium and super-premium products will have to be abandoned in favor of holistic products (low-grain or grain-free).

When choosing a Farmina diet, you should carefully evaluate the composition. The more meat it contains, the more nutritious and natural the food.

The vitamin-mineral complex for castrated and sterilized animals is indicated both when fed with industrial diets and with natural nutrition. In the first case, it is given in a course of 30 days, once every 3 months, in the second - on an ongoing basis.

Range

Thanks to the company’s good scientific potential, as many as 12 types of diets are available in the Vetlife cat food line, each for its own disease. Below are reviews of each of the items, indicating its features and differences from conventional dry food:

• GASTROINTESTINAL – a special diet for pets with problems with digestion in the stomach and absorption in the intestines. Electrolytes in the composition help to improve the digestion of food, and a specially selected symbiosis of products makes this task easier for a weakened body.
• HEPATIC – food for pets with liver problems. Recommended for cats with chronic liver failure. With a low percentage of protein and a high amount of fatty acids, this veterinary diet takes the load off the liver, facilitating its regeneration. A low percentage of copper relieves the toxic effect on affected liver cells.
• STRUVITE – nutrition that promotes the dissolution of uroliths (stones in the genitourinary system). Effective against struvite type deposits. The therapeutic effect is achieved by acidifying urine with DL-methionine, which allows you to dissolve existing stones and also prevents the formation of new ones. In addition to normalizing pH, this food contains a small percentage of protein, calcium, magnesium and phosphorus, which prevents the formation of struvite stones in the urine.
• STRUVITE MANAGEMENT – food for cats with chronic urolithiasis. Indicated for idiopathic cystitis. The composition and mechanism of action is similar to STRUVITE food, but additionally contains ammonium chloride, which effectively prevents the formation of sediment in the urinary system of cats. Has a powerful antioxidant effect.
• RENAL – food for animals with renal failure (acute and chronic forms). Also used as maintenance nutrition for congestive heart failure. This food has a reduced percentage of protein and minimized phosphorus content to reduce the load on the kidneys.
• CARDIAC is a diet designed for cats with heart failure. Thanks to the optimally selected content of potassium, sodium and phosphorus, the load on the heart muscle is reduced and the balance of electrolytes in the blood is restored. Taurine and L-carnitine have a beneficial effect on the absorption and transport of nutrients important for the heart. The composition also contains high-quality, easily digestible protein, which promotes rapid saturation.
• OBESITY is a special diet for animals with various forms of obesity. For a therapeutic effect, the fat content in the food has been reduced, and the percentage of complex carbohydrates has been increased, which, breaking down slowly, provide a feeling of fullness for a long time. Total calorie content is reduced.
• DIABETIC – food for animals suffering from diabetes. Special sources of sugars and starches in the diet's list of nutrients help maintain the required level of glucose in the blood, preventing it from increasing.
• ULTRAHYPO – hypoallergenic food for individuals with food intolerances and allergies. The mechanism of action is based on the content of fish hydrolyzate as the only source of protein. As a result, the body digests the protein “without noticing” that it was animal protein. The source of carbohydrates - rice starch - is the safest product in terms of allergies. Fish oil, which is a source of lipids, is also easily digestible and does not cause allergic reactions.
• NEUTERED MALE – diet for sterilized cats. Developed taking into account the needs of such animals, namely: reduced nutritional value, which eliminates the manifestations of obesity, and also contains L-carnitine and light protein, which helps maintain muscle mass and burn fat reserves. A reduced percentage of magnesium and phosphorus, coupled with calcium sulfate, prevents the development of urolithiasis.
• NEUTERED FEMALE – the composition is almost identical to cat food, but is intended for feeding sterilized cats. The differences are in the percentage of nutrients, which takes into account the nutritional characteristics of animals of different sexes.
• VETLIFE HAIRBALL is a cat food that helps eliminate hairballs from the digestive tract. Due to its fiber content, this formulation has a beneficial effect on the bowel movement process. And probiotics normalize the absorption of nutrients.

Price and where to buy

Farmina food has recently appeared on the Russian market and is therefore poorly distributed. You can purchase them at pet stores or online pet stores.

A 1.5 kg package of premium food for spayed and neutered pets costs an average of 930 rubles. For a similar pack of super-premium dry food you will have to pay 1000-1100 rubles. Low-grain holistic in a 1.5 kg package costs 1150-1200 rubles. The average price of a grain-free diet is 1,500 rubles per 1.5 kg.

Advantages and disadvantages

The advantages of Farmino premium and superpremium food for neutered cats are:

• balanced composition;
• the presence of natural meat and offal;
• absence of harmful aromatic and flavor additives;
• good palatability.

Premium and super-premium diets have the following disadvantages:

• the presence of corn, which sometimes causes allergies;
• high price.

Farminovsky holistic treatments have the following advantages:

• high percentage of meat components;
• low or no grains;
• natural preservative - vitamin E;
• composition with herbs, fruits and vegetables;
• high-quality Italian raw materials;
• balance of minerals and nutrients.

The disadvantage of holistic products is the high level of ash (mineral residue). In order not to harm your pet, it is important to follow the daily dosage indicated on the back of the package. You can't overfeed cats and kittens. An exception is possible if the animal is exhausted.

Advantages and disadvantages

Farmina food has both advantages and disadvantages. Positive qualities include:

• natural composition, presence of beneficial vitamins and microelements;
• absence or low content of grain components;
• natural complementary products;
• a wide variety of types, you can choose to suit every taste;
• produced not only in dry, but also in wet form;
• lower glycemic index, which helps avoid the development of serious diseases.

Important! An undoubted advantage is that animals really like this brand of food. Cats eat such food with pleasure, and their condition improves. Switching to Farmina from another species occurs without problems with the digestive system.

All food has a natural color and regular shape, which once again confirms the absence of chemicals in the composition

However, Farmina also has negative sides:

• high price, not everyone can afford to buy this food;
• rarely found in stores and veterinary clinics;
• short-lived packaging;
• cats can swallow the pellets due to their small size.

The disadvantages also include the likelihood of getting a counterfeit when buying food in bulk.

Farmina - cat food - excellent nutrition for cats. Many types of products are produced under the brand. The food is popular with many owners and pets themselves. It is recommended to consult a veterinarian before choosing. The disadvantage is considered to be the high price, but it also confirms that the pack contains really high-quality food.

*Prices are as of October 2021.

Reviews from veterinarians

Oleg, Astrakhan

A balanced diet is the key to the health of cats. I recommend giving castrates specialized food. What I like most about Farmina is the Natural&Delicious line. It is important to ensure that the animal on dry food consumes a lot of liquid. This is the prevention of ICD.

Olga, Voronezh

Farmina's products have recently appeared. The composition is best in low-grain and grain-free feeds. However, the Matisse and Cimiao lines are also well balanced. If your pet is not allergic to corn, he can eat them. However, you need to regularly take urine and stool tests to know whether the food is being digested.

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Matisse wet food

The lines are represented by mousses for cats. They are produced in tin cans. A special ring makes it easy to open the package without kitchen tools. Formulas for cats come in chicken, rabbit, salmon, sardine, and lamb flavors.

Wet food has an increased percentage of moisture. In this line it is 78%. The protein ratio is 11%. Crude fats and oils are included in the proportion of 7%, crude fiber – 0.5%, crude ash – 3%.

Pets love wet food. They are just as balanced for animal nutrition as dry ones, but they contain more moisture. They contain fiber and generally have a higher percentage of meat than dry croquettes. The packaging allows you to store this delicacy for much longer.

You should not give wet food to animals constantly to avoid the risk of developing dental diseases. Since cats are carnivores, they need food that is dense and chewable.

Give wet food as a treat. When feeding, transfer the mousse from the jar to the animal's bowl. Do not leave uneaten food to prevent it from spoiling. Your pet should always have access to clean drinking water.