Cat food data for regular cats.
About 95 percent of cats in the United States have no breed at all. They are tabby pointed mixed-breed shorthairs - the cat most brands do not write recommendations for. TabbyTable reads the labels instead of the marketing, and puts every food on the same dry-matter basis so wet food can finally be compared to kibble.
Currently tracking 45 products across 19 brands, with 97 side-by-side comparisons worked out.
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- Dry matter basis calculator
A pate reading 16 percent protein sounds poor next to kibble at 40 percent - until you remove the 80 percent water. Convert any label yourself, for free, no signup.
- Side-by-side comparisons
Specific pairs worth looking at, with both converted first and the resulting gap shown. Several of them reverse direction once the water comes out.
- Food data, brand by brand
Guaranteed analysis, full ingredient order, and the dry-matter figures worked out for you.
- Ingredient A-Z
What each ingredient actually is, and why it is discussed. Stated as fact and interpretation, not as health claims.
- Recalls
Current recall notices with links back to the primary source for every entry.
Why dry matter matters
Labels quote protein, fat and fiber as a percentage of the food as it sits in the can. A can that is 80 percent water dilutes every one of those numbers by roughly five times. The manufacturer is not being dishonest - the format is simply not comparable across wet and dry.
Put both on a dry-matter basis, which is what remains after the water is removed, and the comparison becomes honest. This single conversion is worth more than most review articles written about cat food.
About this site
TabbyTable was built by someone who lives with Jiaojiao - a four-year-old blue-and-tabby mixed breed with no pedigree paperwork whatsoever. In the American vocabulary that is a domestic shorthair: the single most common cat in the country, and the one that almost nobody writes feeding guides for. Under two percent of cats in the United States are pedigree. The rest are, statistically, this cat.
How this site works, and who runs it
This site carries no sponsored placements and accepts no payment from brands to change where anything ranks.