Recipe: Fruit and Vegetable Puree for Cat Meals
📝 Summary
A fruit and veg puree is a cat-meal supplement (under 5% of the meal) mimicking prey-gut plant matter. Mix roots, stems, leaves, flowers (avoid starchy/high-sugar), wash with skins on, blend with a little water. Too much reduces palatability.
1 Choosing and Prepping Vegetables
Main ingredients: root vegetables, leafy greens, flowering vegetables, and fruit. Suitable for cats over one month old. Step 1 — Choose freely; aim to combine roots, stems, leaves, and flowers as richly as possible, but avoid starchy vegetables and use high-sugar ones with caution.
Step 2 — Cut as you like, but wash vegetables and fruit with their skins on, since the skin is the most nutritious part.
2 Blending
Step 3 — Blend: a juicer or soy-milk maker works; just something that purees. A little water makes blending easier. Step 4 — Done.
3 Why and How Much
As a cat-meal supplement, puree should be no more than 5% of the meal. It mimics the “plant matter” in a prey’s gut — a necessary part of wild hunting — but its palatability is only fair, and too much can make a cat lose interest in its food, so add it in moderation.
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