Chicory root
2.5%The prebiotic backbone. It's a natural inulin source — food for the good bacteria rather than bacteria itself. The biggest functional inclusion in the bag by a wide margin.
The declared composition, the numbers on the panel, and the ingredients doing the specific work. Intake is where the daily portion gets worked out.
Fresh turkey and salmon, no grain, and a gut-support package that's the entire reason this bag costs more than the plain adult one.
A complete adult food — the whole meal, not a topper — built for cats with sensitive digestion and a fussy appetite. Grain-free, with fresh turkey and dehydrated salmon making up 52% of the bag between them. Brit also sells it in 0.4 kg and 7 kg; yours is the 2 kg.
The pitch is high protein for sensitive digestion, omega-3 and omega-6 for coat and skin, and no colourants, preservatives, GMO or soy. Serve it dry or moistened with lukewarm water.
Composition by weight, as declared. Grouped by what each thing is actually for:
Then the trace layer: dried chamomile 0.5% · minerals · dried sea buckthorn 0.3% · dried cranberries 0.2% · fructo-oligosaccharides 0.015% · mannan-oligosaccharides 0.015% · Mojave yucca 0.008% · Lactobacillus acidophilus HA-122, inactivated, 15×10⁹ cells/kg.
The declared numbers, per 100 g of food.
Vitamin A 20,000 IU · Vitamin D3 800 IU · Vitamin E 600 mg · Taurine 2,500 mg · L-carnitine 50 mg · L-methionine 2,000 mg · zinc 120 mg · manganese 55 mg · iron 45 mg · copper 10 mg.
Taurine is the one that isn't optional — cats can't make enough of their own, and a shortfall goes after the heart and the retina. At 65 g a day (your cat at 5.5 kg) that's roughly 163 mg of taurine.
Why a "sensitive digestion" bag costs more than a plain one — these are the ingredients doing that specific work.
The prebiotic backbone. It's a natural inulin source — food for the good bacteria rather than bacteria itself. The biggest functional inclusion in the bag by a wide margin.
The probiotic, inactivated — it isn't a live culture, so it works as postbiotic cell material that helps steer the gut flora rather than colonising it.
Two oligosaccharides. FOS feeds the useful bacteria; MOS gives the unhelpful ones something to bind to on the way out instead of the gut wall.
Traditionally a gut-settler. Small inclusion, unglamorous, and one of the things distinguishing this formula from the standard adult line.
Where the omega-3 comes from. Anti-inflammatory in the gut lining, and the reason the coat looks the way it does.
The antioxidant trace layer. Cranberry has a urinary-tract reputation; at 0.2% treat it as a bonus, not a treatment.
Brit's instruction to leave the food available through the day is the single line most likely to quietly undo the portion. Free-feeding only works if the day's grams go into the bowl once and nothing tops it up — otherwise there's no measurement happening at all, just a bowl that never empties. Weigh the day's portion out in the morning.
A probiotic, a prebiotic and three digestive enzymes in a dropper — the same gut idea as the kibble, delivered faster and in a format a cat can't pick around.
A supplement, not a food — it adds nothing meaningful in the way of calories and replaces no part of the meal. One formula sold for both cats and dogs, which is why the dosing is by weight band rather than species.
The liquid format is the actual product argument: it absorbs faster than a chew, and it can be stirred into wet food or dropped straight in the mouth, so there's no negotiating with a cat about swallowing a tablet.
The headline ingredient — live bacteria to populate the gut, where the kibble's L. acidophilus is inactivated. The listing says "billions" without naming the strains.
Feeds the bacteria above so they survive arrival. The same class of prebiotic the kibble supplies via chicory root — this is the overlap, doubled deliberately.
A protease from papaya. Breaks protein into smaller fragments before the gut has to — useful on a 32%-protein diet.
The pineapple equivalent, working the same protein-splitting job at a different point in the chain.
Finishes what the other two start, cutting the leftover peptides down into amino acids the gut wall can actually absorb.
No artificial colours or added sugars, per the listing. The chicken flavour is what makes the dropper go down without a fight.
Straight off the bottle — bands, not arithmetic. Your cat sits in the middle band, so 2 droppers a day.
Uncap, hold the dropper above the mouth, and let them lick it — or stir it into a wet meal. Once a day, and the listing's own note is to adjust per your vet's recommendation rather than treat the band as fixed.
The listing doesn't name the five strains or declare a CFU count. That's the gap worth noticing: the kibble tells you exactly what it contains and how much (L. acidophilus HA-122, 15×10⁹ cells/kg), and this doesn't. Without a number there's no way to judge potency, compare it against another brand, or know what "billions" means in this bottle.
The descriptions of it as vet-approved and science-backed are the seller's claims, reproduced here as claims — not something verified on this page.