Fresh vs Highly Processed with Synthetic Supplements

There are two basic ways to meet our nutrient needs:

1. Eat fresh food with a short ingredient list – or at least one that does not resemble a science experiment full of long names that are hard to pronounce.

2. Eat highly processed foods that have had much of their nutrient content destroyed or altered, with food chemists ‘fixing’ the deficit with synthetic supplements.  This type of unhealthy diet is consumed under the assumption that humans know exactly what was destroyed or altered during processing and what needs to be added back and in what form and amount.

Again, people are simply not that smart.

While canned food is not ‘fresh,’ per se, dry food undergoes a harsher processing.  It has been cooked at very high temperatures for a long period of time.  The extensive cooking required to remove most of the water from the food (70% moisture reduced to 5-10% moisture) significantly alters the biological value of the protein sources and damages other vital nutrients.

Nutritionists then have to guess which nutrients – in what form and amounts – were destroyed by this cooking process and then try to add them back into the diet.  Occasionally ‘real food’ is used instead of synthetic supplements but those long and hard-to-pronounce names on the ingredient list describe chemically synthesized nutrients.

Given that humans will never be as smart as nature – we will never know every detail of a cat’s normal prey – it is obvious that there is a risk when greed cause humans to stray so far from a cat’s natural diet.

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