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Is cheap cat food healthy? Why is some cat food so affordable?

Updated On September 23rd, 2025

Pet's info: Cat | Mixed Breed | Male | unneutered | 4 months and 21 days old | 9 lbs

Hi, we had a dry cat food product only here in Philippines Special Cat dry food. It has high bases on meat and no corn gluten or soy. It also has low magnesium to avoid kidney stones. This products was made from Italy and it launched in 2015. This Special Cat became so popular because it seems so healthy and it's very cheap. I am just wondering why it is so cheap. People said that their cats seems very healthy to this food. Is cheap products supposed to be unhealthy?

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Answered By David Elbeze, DVM, MRCVS

Veterinarian

Published on March 21st, 2018

Generally speaking you are correct, cheap food are usually not very healthy. you did not mention the name of the product so i cannot tell you if it is good or bad, please provide the name of the food in your next question and i will do my best to try and analyse it.

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