Nutro Wholesome Essentials Kitten Dry Cat Food, Chicken & Rice, 5 lb

We foster kittens through the Humane Society. Over the years we’ve dealt with a lot of kittens having various GI issues, and if we’ve learned anything it’s to keep corn out of their diets! This is, bar none, the best kitten food we’ve found. The kibbles are perfectly sized and shaped, easily swallowed even by kittens who can’t chew well yet. They gain weight well on this, eat it voraciously, and we’ve seen less diarrhea with this feed than anything else - period. Of course there’s Hill’s a/d for crisis situations, and we’ve doctored Nutro with Fortiflora or Proviable when necessary. But Nutro Kitten is our go-to. Solid stools, thriving kittens - what’s not to love?

The food quality is awesome. A little bit of this goes a long way. It is made with real ingredients making it safe for your kitty. My kitten wasnt intrested in dry food after weaning. I tried box store brand after brand and just decided to go with the expensive stuff. My cats loves Nutro. I will spend the extra dollars for my fur baby for him to enjoy his food. Its like right off the bat he knew.. ok this stuff is good. So yes it's a good value for the money. And as a pet parent I even tried a piece of the kibble myself. It has this rich taste to it setting it aside from the other brands. It wasnt hard for it to break down making it an easy chew for cats with sensitive teeth. The pieces of kibble are small if you have another cat like mine who just swallows the pieces whole because of teeth issues. This is our brand of food.

Always a quality product.

I have 5 kittens that eat it all the time. Seem to like it.

My kittens are very happy with the taste and I am happy with the value vs healthy aspect. I also like the size of the nuggets for the kittens.

UPDATE 8/9/18: Kitten decided he liked it and now gobbles it down. I know it's a healthy product because I did a ton of research. The problem is neither my kitten or my older cat will eat it. :(

My cat Binx is very picky and has a sensitive stomach. She loves nutro. I have tried many brands and this is the only one that doesn’t make her vomit. It seems to be easier on her stomach & another bonus is her litter box isn’t super smelly anymore. I love that it’s non gmo. Her favorites are the chicken & duck. I buy both and mix them together. She’s been on this brand for nearly a year now and her coat is very shiny and she doesn’t cough up hairballs all the time anymore. That used to be quite an issue with her before we tried this food. I did try nutro’s hairball formula and she didn’t care for the flavor, but she ate it when I mixed it into her chicken/duck mixture. I haven’t fed her the hairball mix in probably 4 months and she’s still not having issues. I do cook her fresh salmon every now and then but I think this food has really helped her. Her jet black fur nearly shimmers in the sun, it’s so shiny and silky. Binx was a stray and her fur was really rough & ratty before. Her fur was about as nice as a dollar store stuffed animal. She was very young and this kitten mix was her favorite then.

SO HAPPY I finally found a food that works for my cats. I have an adult and 2 kittens (3 months old) and have tried MANY different foods, with varying degrees of horrible results. Sickeningly smelly poop, diarrhea, awful gas, one food even caused vomiting. It's made life difficult for everyone (especially that last one- they were pooping all over the house, tracking it everywhere, and the smell was inescapable... but worst of all, they were miserable!) There are so few options for kittens with sensitive stomachs (mostly only adults) and I was surprised to see how many brands that worked for people a few years ago since changed their formula and now it makes their cats sick. (Shameful, why do they do this...) It's been a week since we switched to this food and I'm just overjoyed. I really didn't have a lot of hope because we have even tried expensive grain- free formulas without success. They love this food and so do we because by the second day their poo was normal and I haven't been gassed to death once since we switched. YAY! I never thought I'd be so excited about what I'm seeing in their litter box 😅 but this is pretty much a miracle. I will update if anything changes but this is the most promising outcome we've had and I plan to continue using this food.