Think you're making informed choices about your cat's food? The marketing on the front of the bag—"premium," "natural," "grain-free"—often tells a completely different story than what's actually inside. In this episode, Jasmine Caldwell breaks down exactly how to decode cat food labels, from finding the one statement that determines whether a food is even nutritionally complete to understanding why the ingredient list might be misleading you. Whether you're a new cat owner or you've been feeding felines for years, this twenty-minute label literacy crash course will transform how you shop.

• The AAFCO nutritional adequacy statement is your first and most important quality filter—if a cat food doesn't have one, it shouldn't be your cat's primary diet, regardless of what the front of the bag claims.

• Ingredients are li ...