Friday, October 28, 2011

Acana Grain-Free Dry Cat Food




Acana - Grasslands
Acana - Pacifica
Acana - Wild Prairie


Evolved as carnivores, Mother Nature adapted cats to thrive on a diet rich and varied in animal proteins and fats—not carbohydrates and grains. That’s why grain-free Acana Grain-Free Foods for Cats features a diversity of regional ingredients including free-run chicken, whole eggs, wild-caught Whitefish and Walleye—all delivered fresh, never frozen and containing no preservatives.

High-protein and low-carbohydrate to match the natural feline diet, Acana is loaded with premium meat ingredients (65%) to promote peak conditioning in cats of all breeds. These superb grain-free cat foods feature regional vegetables and fruits, including cranberries and apples from British Columbia to reduce urinary pH, Organic sea vegetables absorb toxins and enhance metabolism, and raspberry leaf and marigold flower to nourish and tone the digestive tract.

World-class Acana is made from western Canada's best and freshest ingredients in their award-winning, family-operated factory in Alberta, Canada. Read the ingredients and you'll agree - Acana Grain-Free cat food is a naturally delicious way to keep your cat or kitten happy, healthy and strong!
Acana Grain-Free Foods for Cats offers these great features:
  • Made with Fresh Regional Ingredients - free-run chicken, wild-caught lake whitefish, Northern Walleye and whole eggs are bursting with nourishing proteins and fats and are delivered fresh - never frozen and with no preservatives
  • Omega-3 from Fresh Wild-Caught Fish - fresh regional fish provide a premium sources of unrendered omega-3 fatty acids (EPA, DHA) to support immunity and a luxuriant skin and hair coat - your cat's outer symbol of vitality
  • Grain-Free, Low-Carbohydrate, High-Protein - grain-free formula, low in carbohydrates and high in premium animal proteins to better match the natural nutritional requirements of all cats
  • Prairie Botanicals & Pacific Sea Vegetables - hand-harvested organic kelp, dulse and bladderwrack combined with prairie-grown botanicals provide a natural source of phyto-nutrients and antioxidant vitamins
  • Naturally pH-Balanced - grain-free, low magnesium formula made with fresh chicken, fish and cranberries to produce mildly acidic urine - an important factor in maintaining feline urinary tract health
  • High Quality Human-Consumption Grade Meats - made exclusively from animals of Canadian origin that are passed as fit for human consumption
  • Safe, Natural Ingredients - ethoxyquin-free with no corn, wheat or gluten, inappropriate oils, animal by-products, hormone-enhanced meats, artificial flavors or preservatives, or genetically modified ingredients
Three World-Class Formulas:
  • Wild Prairie - Loaded with premium, easily-digested meat ingredients (65%) Prairie Harvest features a diversity of fresh regional ingredients including free-run chicken, whole eggs, and wild-caught Lake Whitefish & Northern Walleye. High-protein and low-carbohydrate, Acana is loaded with premium meat ingredients (65%) to promote peak conditioning in your cat.
  • Pacifica - Made with fresh Pacific salmon, plus flounder and herring - caught wild of North Vancouver Island. With each kibble containing 65% fish, Acana Pacifica is loaded with richly nourishing, easily digested fish proteins, while Omega-3 essential fatty acids support immunity and a luxuriant skin and coat - your cat's outer symbol of health and vitality.
  • Grasslands - Grasslands kibble is loaded with a natural variety of premium meat ingredients (65%!) including ranch-raised lamb from New Zealand's North Island, grain-fed duck from Aurora, Ontario, fresh whole eggs from local farms, and Northern Walleye and Lake Whitefish, caught wild from Canada's northern lakes and delivered fresh each day.
Acana Grain-Free Food for Cats is formulated to meet the nutritional levels established by the AAFCO Cat Food Nutrient Profiles.

Available in 5.5 lb. and 15.4 lb. bags.

About Champion Petfoods, maker of Acana

Unlike the marketing and multinational companies that sell (but don't actually make) today's commercial pet foods, Champion Petfoods stands apart as a family-owned and -operated pet food maker with a 25 year tradition of quality. Champion's mission is to product world-class pet foods from fresh, regional ingredients.
Produced exclusively in their own award-winning facilities in Alberta, Canada, the Acana brand pet foods are sold in 45 countries and are certified by the Canadian Government to meet every known international pet food regulation or standard.
As a "boutique" producer, Champion doesn't use commodity ingredients from suppliers they don't know and will never meet. Instead, they focus upon world-class ingredients raised or fished within the region by people they know and trust, and that are delivered to their manufacturing facility fresh each day.
Champion Pet Foods has a deep passion for dogs and cats, and just like you, they are first and foremost pet lovers. It is with their own dogs and cats in mind that they make Acana - foods that truly nourish dogs and cats as Nature intended.

Wild Prairie
Ingredients – Chicken meal, potato, boneless chicken, boneless walleye, whitefish meal*, peas, chicken fat (naturally preserved with vitamin E), sun-cured alfalfa, chicken liver, boneless Lake Whitefish, whole eggs, salmon oil, sweet potato, pumpkin, spinach, turnip greens, tomatoes, carrots, apples, organic kelp, cranberries, blueberries, juniper berries, black currants, chicory root, licorice root, angelica root, fenugreek, marigold flowers, sweet fennel, peppermint leaf, chamomile flowers, lavender flowers, summer savory, rosemary, vitamin A, vitamin D3, vitamin E, niacin, zinc proteinate, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, vitamin B5, iron proteinate, vitamin B6, manganese proteinate, copper proteinate, folic acid, biotin, vitamin B12, selenium, dried Lactobacillus acidophilus fermentation product, dried Enterococcus faecium fermentation product. *Whitefish meal contains wild-caught flounder, halibut and cod.

Calorie Distribution
Metabolic Energy is 3950 kcal/kg
485 kcal per 250 ml cup (120 g)
35% of energy from protein
45% of energy from fat
20% of energy from carbohydrates

Guaranteed Analysis
Crude Protein (min) 35%
Crude Fat (min) 20%
Crude Fiber (max) 3%
Moisture (max) 10%
Calcium (min) 1.5%
Phosphorus (min) 1.1%
Taurine (min) 0.5%
Magnesium (max) 0.09%
Omega-6 (min) 3.5%
Omega-3 (min) 0.5%
DHA/EPA 0.35%/0.1%
Carbohydrate (max) 25%
Kibble pH (max) 5.5

Typical Analysis
Sodium 0.3%
Chloride 0.5%
Potassium 0.6%
Magnesium 0.09%
Iron 350 mg/kg
Zinc 250 mg/kg
Copper 20 mg/kg
Manganese 47 mg/kg
Cobalt 0.6%
Iodine 2.1 mg/kg
Selenium 0.4 mg/kg
Vitamin A 18 KIU/kg
Vitamin D3 2000 IU/kg
Vitamin E 400 IU/kg
Vitamin K 2 mg/kg
Vitamin C 83 mg/kg
Vitamin B1 (thiamine) 70 mg/kg
Vitamin B2 (riboflavin) 45 mg/kg
Vitamin B3 (niacin) 250 mg/kg
Vitamin B5 (pan. Acid) 40 mg/kg
Vitamin B6 (pyridoxine) 32 mg/kg
Vitamin B12 (cyanocobalamin) 400 mg/kg
Biotin 0.6 mg/kg
Folic Acid 3.5 mg/kg
Choline 3350 mg/kg
Lysine 1.6%
Theronine 1.4%
Methionine 0.7%
Isoleucine 1.3%
Leucine 2.2%
Valine 1.6%
Arginine 2.0%
Phenylalanine 1.2%
Histidine 1.0%
Cystine 0.6%
Taurine 0.5%

Botanical Inclusions
Juniper berries 300 mg/kg
Angelica root 300 mg/kg
Red raspberry leaf 250 mg/kg
Dandelion root 250 mg/kg
Peppermint leaf 200 mg/kg
Marigold flowers 200 mg/kg

Pacifica
Ingredients – Boneless salmon (natural source of EPA, DHA),salmon meal, herring meal, russet potato, peas, whitefish meal*, sweet potatoes, chicken fat (naturally preserved with vitamin E), sun-cured alfalfa, boneless herring, boneless flounder, natural fish flavors, pumpkin, turnip greens, spinach, tomatoes, carrots, apples, organic kelp, cranberries, blueberries, juniper berries, black currants, chicory root, licorice root, angelica root, fenugreek, marigold flowers, sweet fennel, peppermint leaf, chamomile flowers, lavender flowers, summer savory, rosemary, vitamin A, vitamin D3, vitamin E, niacin, zinc proteinate, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, vitamin B5, iron proteinate, vitamin B6, manganese proteinate, copper proteinate, folic acid, biotin, vitamin B12, selenium, dried Lactobacillus acidophilus fermentation product, dried Enterococcus faecium fermentation product. *Whitefish meal contains wild-caught flounder, halibut and cod.

Calorie Distribution
Metabolic Energy is 3950 kcal/kg
485 kcal per 250 ml cup (120 g)
35% of energy from protein
45% of energy from fat
20% of energy from carbohydrates

Guaranteed Analysis
Crude Protein (min) 35%
Crude Fat (min) 20%
Crude Fiber (max) 2.5%
Moisture (max) 10%
Calcium (min) 1.3%
Phosphorus (min) 1.1%
Taurine (min) 0.5%
Magnesium (max) 0.09%
Omega-6 (min) 3%
Omega-3 (min) 1.4%
DHA/EPA 0.9%/0.3%
Carbohydrate (max) 25%
Kibble pH (max) 5.5

Typical Analysis
Sodium 0.2%
Chloride 0.25%
Potassium 0.6%
Magnesium 0.08%
Iron 250 mg/kg
Zinc 270 mg/kg
Copper 20 mg/kg
Manganese 35 mg/kg
Cobalt 0.5%
Iodine 2.3 mg/kg
Selenium 0.4 mg/kg
Vitamin A 18 KIU/kg
Vitamin D3 2000 IU/kg
Vitamin E 400 IU/kg
Vitamin K 2 mg/kg
Vitamin C 83 mg/kg
Vitamin B1 (thiamine) 60 mg/kg
Vitamin B2 (riboflavin) 45 mg/kg
Vitamin B3 (niacin) 250 mg/kg
Vitamin B5 (pan. Acid) 40 mg/kg
Vitamin B6 (pyridoxine) 32 mg/kg
Vitamin B12 (cyanocobalamin) 400 mg/kg
Biotin 1.9 mg/kg
Folic Acid 3.5 mg/kg
Choline 3350 mg/kg
Lysine 1.6%
Theronine 1.4%
Methionine 0.7%
Isoleucine 1.3%
Leucine 2.2%
Valine 1.6%
Arginine 2.0%
Phenylalanine 1.2%
Histidine 1.0%
Cystine 0.6%
Taurine 0.5%

Botanical Inclusions
Juniper berries 300 mg/kg
Angelica root 300 mg/kg
Red raspberry leaf 250 mg/kg
Dandelion root 250 mg/kg
Peppermint leaf 200 mg/kg
Marigold flowers 200 mg/kg

Grasslands
Ingredients – Boneless lamb, lamb meal, salmon meal, russet potato, herring meal, chicken meal, peas, sweet potatoes, boneless duck, salmon oil, chicken fat (naturally preserved with vitamin E), boneless walleye, dried chicken liver, sun-cured alfalfa, whole egg, pumpkin, spinach, turnip greens, tomatoes, carrots, apples, organic kelp, cranberries, blueberries, juniper berries, black currants, chicory root, licorice root, angelica root, fenugreek, marigold flowers, sweet fennel, peppermint leaf, chamomile flowers, lavender flowers, summer savory, rosemary, vitamin A, vitamin D3, vitamin E, niacin, zinc proteinate, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, vitamin B5, iron proteinate, vitamin B6, manganese proteinate, copper proteinate, folic acid, biotin, vitamin B12, selenium, dried Lactobacillus acidophilus fermentation product, dried Enterococcus faecium fermentation product.

Calorie Distribution
Metabolic Energy is 3950 kcal/kg
485 kcal per 250 ml cup (120 g)
35% of energy from protein
45% of energy from fat
20% of energy from carbohydrates

Guaranteed Analysis
Crude Protein (min) 35%
Crude Fat (min) 20%
Crude Fiber (max) 2.5%
Moisture (max) 10%
Calcium (min) 1.5%
Phosphorus (min) 1.3%
Taurine (min) 0.5%
Magnesium (max) 0.09%
Omega-6 (min) 3%
Omega-3 (min) 1.2%
DHA/EPA 0.7%/0.3%
Carbohydrate (max) 25%
Kibble pH (max) 5.5

Typical Analysis
Sodium 0.3%
Chloride 0.5%
Potassium 0.5%
Magnesium 0.09%
Iron 225 mg/kg
Zinc 220 mg/kg
Copper 20 mg/kg
Manganese 34 mg/kg
Cobalt 0.5%
Iodine 2.2 mg/kg
Selenium 0.3 mg/kg
Vitamin A 18 KIU/kg
Vitamin D3 2000 IU/kg
Vitamin E 400 IU/kg
Vitamin K 2 mg/kg
Vitamin C 83 mg/kg
Vitamin B1 (thiamine) 55 mg/kg
Vitamin B2 (riboflavin) 45 mg/kg
Vitamin B3 (niacin) 230 mg/kg
Vitamin B5 (pan. Acid) 45 mg/kg
Vitamin B6 (pyridoxine) 30 mg/kg
Vitamin B12 (cyanocobalamin) 400 mg/kg
Biotin 1.9 mg/kg
Folic Acid 3.2 mg/kg
Choline 3000 mg/kg
Lysine 1.8%
Theronine 1.6%
Methionine 0.8%
Isoleucine 1.2%
Leucine 2.0%
Valine 1.4%
Arginine 1.8%
Phenylalanine 1.1%
Histidine 0.9%
Cystine 0.6%
Taurine 0.5%

Botanical Inclusions
Juniper berries 300 mg/kg
Angelica root 300 mg/kg
Red raspberry leaf 250 mg/kg
Dandelion root 250 mg/kg
Peppermint leaf 200 mg/kg
Marigold flowers 200 mg/kg


Feeding Guidelines
Each cat is different and feeding amounts will vary. Use this chart as a guide and adjust amounts accordingly. Maintaining proper body weight contributes to longevity—a healthy cat is lean and athletic. Feed twice daily and provide fresh clean water at all times.
Feed twice daily:
Weight 1 1/2 - 4 mos. 5 - 8 mos. 9-10 mos. 11-12 mos. Adult
2 lbs. 1/3 cup 1/4 cup 1/4 cup 1/4 cup 1/4 cup
5 lbs. 3/4 cup 1/2 cup 1/2 cup 1/2 cup 1/3 cup
7 lbs. 1 1/4 cup 3/4 cup 1/2 cup 1/2 cup 1/2 cup
9 lbs. 1 cup 3/4 cup 3/4 cup 2/3 cup
11 lbs. 1 1/4 cup 1 cup 3/4 cup 3/4 cup