Smalls cat food review: what the label data shows
Cat-only fresh subscription brand: human-grade recipes gently cooked in USDA facilities, shipped frozen. The fresh line currently spans eight recipes across chicken, turkey, fish, beef and pork.
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We don't answer "good" or "bad" - that depends on your cat and is your veterinarian's call. What we can do is publish what the labels actually say, checked by hand against the manufacturer's current pages.
How we assessed this brand, and what we did not do. We have not fed this food to our own cat. Smalls ships frozen and delivers only within the United States, and we are not in a position to order it, open a box, and watch a cat eat it. Rather than fake that experience or quietly imply we had it, we are saying so plainly.
So treat this page as label analysis, not as a feeding trial. Everything below is transcribed from the manufacturer's published ingredient list and guaranteed analysis, converted to a dry-matter basis so wet and dry products can be compared, and dated. Where a food has to be judged by how a cat actually does on it, that judgement is not ours to make.
What the label data shows
- We track 8 Smalls products (8 fresh).
- Protein on a dry-matter basis runs from 48.1% to 76.7% across these products - the figure that lets wet and dry foods be compared fairly.
- 7 of 8 list a named animal protein as the first ingredient.
Labels last checked between 2026-11-01 and 2026-11-01. Each product page links the exact label page the figures came from.
Products tracked
| Product | Form | Protein as fed | Protein dry matter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fresh Ground Bird / Smooth Bird | fresh | 13% | 48.1% |
| Fresh Pulled Bird | fresh | 23% | 76.7% |
| Fresh Ground Other Bird / Smooth Other Bird | fresh | 14.5% | 51.8% |
| Fresh Pulled Other Bird | fresh | 23% | 76.7% |
| Fresh Smooth Fish | fresh | 15% | 62.5% |
| Fresh Ground Cow / Smooth Cow | fresh | 16.5% | 55% |
| Fresh Smooth Pig | fresh | 16% | 61.5% |
| Fresh Smooth Bird & Fish Dish | fresh | 15% | 55.6% |
Ingredients found across these labels
Vegetables in cat food (9)Tricalcium phosphate (8)Taurine (8)Broth and processing water (7)Sunflower seed oil (5)