What Is the Best Fresh Cat Food? A Complete Guide for Cat Owners

If you've started looking into the best fresh cat food, you’ll have discovered there are more options available than ever before, meaning it can be difficult to know which option is truly best for your cat.

Every cat is an individual, and their age, health, activity levels, and personal preferences all play a role in choosing the right diet. However, cats are and will always be obligate carnivores, meaning not only have they evolved to thrive on a diet rich in animal protein and moisture, they also have less need for carbohydrates.

This is why many owners are choosing fresh cat foods over highly processed alternatives. For many cats, a balanced raw diet can be one of the closest nutritional matches to what nature intended.

What Is Fresh Cat Food?

Fresh cat food refers to meals made from minimally processed, high-quality ingredients, rather than heavily processed dry or canned cat foods containing artificial preservatives and fillers that tends to be grains which aren’t a required part of a cat’s natural diet.

Fresh diets generally fall into three categories:

• Raw complete meals
• Fresh gently cooked meals
• Freeze-dried or air-dried foods that are rehydrated before feeding

The less processing involved, the more naturally occurring nutrients remain intact.

Why Processing Matters

Many commercial cat foods are produced using high temperatures during manufacturing and packing, which makes for a convenient product with a long shelf life, but affects the natural structure of proteins, fats, and nutrients within the food.

This results in some nutrients being added back into processed foods after cooking because they have been lost during production. Fresh diets require far less processing, allowing ingredients to retain much of their natural nutritional value. 

The Best Fresh Cat Food

Our Fresh Deli range brings all the nutrition you’ve come to expect from our raw cat food to our pouches:

1. Fresh Deli Trial Pack

While you’re transitioning your cat to fresh food and you’re not sure which of our Deli Range they will love the most, our Fresh Deli Trial Pack gives you the choice of our available fresh food selection and contains 14 x 70g pouches. Finding their preferred flavour is made even easier.

2. Fresh Deli Beef Trim with Ox heart and Liver

Made with 70% minced beef trim, 20% ox heart, and 10% ox liver, this is best for the cats who do best with red meat and need a slightly higher-calorie, energy-dense meal. If your cat doesn’t do well with poultry, this is a fantastic alternative, especially if they’re a bigger cat that requires more calories.

3. Fresh Deli Turkey Breast with heart and Gizard and Liver

This fresh cat food is composed of high-quality turkey meat: 50% Minced Turkey Breast, 20% Turkey Heart, 20% Turkey Gizzard, 10% Turkey Liver. Turkey is extremely lean and easily digestible, so if your cat has a more sensitive stomach but is more averse to chicken, this is the perfect option.

4. Fresh Deli Wild Boar and Pork Loin with Heart and Liver

For cats that need more fat in their diet, the Fresh Deli Wild Boar and Pork Loin option contains 10% nutritional fats while still being high in moisture and protein. Similarly, if you want to rule out allergies that your cat might have to poultry, this is a fantastic alternative protein. 

5. Fresh Deli Chicken Breast with Heart, Gizzard and Liver

The Fresh Deli Chicken Breast with Heart, Gizzard and Liver boasts both the highest protein and moisture content, which is perfectly suited for cats of all ages whose diets require an increased amount of each. Chicken tends to be the best “starter flavour” as it’s the gentlest on cats’ stomachs, and we usually recommend starting here.

Purrform Fresh Cat Food for Your Cat

There’s a growing interest in alternative diets and feeding among cat owners, stemming from their desire to give their beloved pet the best diet possible that’s closest to what’s natural. At Purrform, we offer high quality a fresh cat food for adult cats on our Fresh Deli range, packed with the human-grade animal protein and nutrients to give your pets the perfect diet.

Considering making the switch? Read our in-depth guide on transitioning your cat’s diet, as well as our helpful tips for a seamless change from their current feeding.