SavourLife Cat Food Review

David D'Angelo 0

SavourLife is an Australian brand of pet food, and you’ll see from the dog food review it’s a good mix of quality vs price.

They donate 50% profits of every bag you buy to help save rescue cats, but note this is 50% of the profit margin, not 50% of the price of the bag (quite a big difference!)

The SavourLife cat food range is limited to two adult formulas (Chicken or Ocean Fish), an indoor cat/hairball control formula, and a kitten chicken formula which has slightly more chicken than the adult formula.

All are dry food formulas, so you’ll want to feed your cat some wet, BARF, or raw as well.

Let’s take a look and see if SavourLife is a good option for your cat!

SavourLife Adult review (and indoor/hairball control)

You’ll know already your cat is a meat-eating obligate carnivore, which necessitates a diet of animal ingredients.

This means the first ingredient as chicken sounds really appealing, especially when you see it is “equiv. 70%”. That sounds like a lot of chicken, right?

The trouble with kibble (and this is applicable to pretty much all kibble), this is deceiving.

In reality this is wet weight of the chicken which is in majority moisture, and that moisture evaporates in the kibble-making process. That means the next two ingredients should also be considered significant, and they are brown rice and oats.

To offer a more likely composition, the chicken, once cooked, could be around 25% of the formula, and brown rice and oats fairly similar – slightly bulking up protein and fat, but also high in carbohydrates (listed as a minimum of 33%).

If you feel kibble is necessary for convenience or budget, then the solution to this problem is feeding a wet, BARF, or raw cat food as well.

Compared to other dry cat foods in Australia, SavourLife is pretty good, and I feel the company has shown to be reliable and offer a good quality of pet food.

There are definitely a lot worse cat foods on offer in Australia.

Quick note on SavourLife indoor/hairball control: This is very similar to the Adult Chicken formula discussed above, but with less fat, slightly more carbohydrates, and more fibre.

I’d argue a carnivore would benefit more from fat than carbohydrates (unnecessary for a cat), but as pet food manufacturers work on calories rather than feline metabolism this reads better on the packet and is cheaper to make. The increase in fibre is to help your indoor cat feel more satiated to prevent over-eating and weight gain, or to help digest those hairballs.

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Ingredients

Ingredients of SavourLife adult food (Adult Chicken):

Chicken Meal (equiv. 70%), Brown Rice, Oats, Poultry Oil, Field Peas, Natural Chicken Flavouring, Beet Pulp, Fish Oil, Vegetable Oil, Vitamins & Minerals & Amino Acids (including Taurine), Salt, Chicory Root (Natural Prebiotic), Superfood Mix (Tomato, Kelp, Carrot, Broccoli, Blueberries), Glucosamine, Yucca Schidigera Extract, Natural Antioxidants.

Guaranteed Analysis

The guaranteed analysis of SavourLife adult food (Adult Chicken):

SavourLife Kitten review

SavourLife Kitten is very similar to the Adult formulas, just with slightly more meat (which is good), and slightly more fat (also good), and this means slightly less carbs (which is a big plus for your baby carnivore).

For kittens these small tweaks are beneficial, and I would say this is a more appropriate formula for an adult cat as well considering it’s less redundant carbohydrates.

It’s common for kitten foods to be better (and more costly to manufacture), and once you’re locked into the brand you quietly transition to the slightly inferior adult cat food which may have a similar retail price but cheaper to produce.

Compared to other dry kitten foods in Australia, SavourLife Kitten is decent, and the company is reliable.

I would highly recommend feeding your kitten a “dry only” diet. Cats are ancestrally desert animals who have a biological need for moisture in their diet. Dry diets, as you can gather from the name, lack moisture.

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Ingredients

Ingredients of SavourLife kitten food (Kitten Chicken):

Chicken Meal (equiv. 75%), Brown Rice, Oats, Poultry Oil, Field Peas, Natural Chicken Flavouring, Beet Pulp, Fish Oil, Vegetable Oil, Vitamins & Minerals & Amino Acids (including Taurine), Salt, Chicory Root (Natural Prebiotic), Superfood Mix (Tomato, Kelp, Carrot, Broccoli, Blueberries), Glucosamine, Yucca Schidigera Extract, Natural Antioxidants, Marine Microalgae.

Guaranteed Analysis

The guaranteed analysis of SavourLife kitten food (Kitten Chicken):

* May be estimated. Read how to calculate carbohydrates in a pet food.

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