Natural Balance · Ultra Protein Plus Puree Topper Skin & Coat and Digestive Health · Real Salmon with Pumpkin Recipe

Name: Natural Balance Ultra Protein Plus Puree Topper Skin & Coat and Digestive Health Real Salmon with Pumpkin Recipe
Brand: Natural Balance

Wet food · Adult Maintenance

Supplemental food (topper). A topper or side dish, not a complete meal — feed it alongside a complete food, never as your cat's only food. There's no overall grade for it — Furry PI grades complete diets — but the label read below still shows what's inside.

Furry PI's verdict

Natural Balance Puree Topper Skin & Coat and Digestive Health is a supplemental food — a topper or side dish to serve alongside a complete diet, not a meal on its own. That is also why it carries no overall grade: Furry PI grades complete diets only. On the label itself, salmon leads the ingredient list — the right start for an obligate carnivore. Worth noting: it contains tapioca starch. The app reads the full ingredient list for you.

What's concerning

Contains tapioca starch, a lower-quality ingredient.
A modest share of calories comes from protein.

What works

Salmon leads the ingredient list — the right start for an obligate carnivore.
As a wet food, it delivers the moisture cats rarely drink on their own.
Carbohydrate load stays close to what a cat would eat in nature.

A topper has no overall grade — but the free app still reads its label in full: every ingredient identified and explained, plus complete foods worth serving it on top of.

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Nutrition from the label (as fed)

Protein	7%
Fat	5%
Fiber	1.5%
Moisture	85%
Ash*	2.5%
Carbs (estimated)*	0%

Label: guaranteed analysis (min/max). * not printed on the label — carbs are calculated, ash/moisture estimated from typical values. How these numbers translate into calories from protein vs carbs — and how this food scores on each pillar — is shown in the app.

Quick answers

Is Natural Balance Puree Topper Skin & Coat and Digestive Health grain-free?: No — the label lists oatmeal.
What are the first ingredients in Natural Balance Puree Topper Skin & Coat and Digestive Health?: The label opens with salmon, salmon broth and chicken. Ingredients are listed by weight, so the first few carry the most.
Does it contain artificial colours or preservatives?: None appear on the ingredient list.

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