Cat Safe Foods
Sharing food with your cat? Make sure it's safe first
Sharing food with your cat? Make sure it's safe first
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Read the tips below before sharing any food with cats
White potatoes belong to the nightshade family of vegetables, which includes tomatoes. Like unripe tomatoes, raw potatoes contain solanine, a compound that is toxic to cats. Cats should never eat raw potatoes. Cooking a potato reduces the levels of solanine. Cats should never eat french fries, potato chips, or any other type of potato fried in oil or with any seasonings. Giving a cat too many carbohydrates can result in obesity or other health problems, and diabetic cats should never eat potatoes because they can cause blood sugar spikes. Cats can eat small amounts of bite-size pieces of plain, unseasoned, unsalted, cooked potato.
Caution: Cats lack the enzymes required for digesting carbohydrates, therefore, their diet should not exceed 2% of carbohydrates or sugars. Read more.
Sweet potatoes are a safe food for cats, but they should be ripe, and should not be served raw. Cats can eat bite-size pieces of plain, unseasoned, cooked, peeled, sweet potatoes.
Caution: Cats lack the enzymes required for digesting carbohydrates, therefore, their diet should not exceed 2% of carbohydrates or sugars. Read more.