What is Digestibility and Why is it so Important?
30th Aug 2023
Cats have no requirement for carbohydrates and have limited ability to digest them. For cats, a raw meat diet is more digestible than a diet of plant based foods. Because they evolved eating a diet with almost no carbohydrates, they have only one enzyme system capable of handling them. This is quite different from humans or even dogs, who have multiple enzyme systems that digest carbohydrates.