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May I ask where you were able to check the food out? I found CKD specific resources online for American foods but always struggle finding anything out about Aussie brands unless I email the manufacturer.
There’s the option of a vet nutritionist for safe balanced homemade diets if anyone wants to go that route. They have recipes to feed healthy cats without special needs (cheaper) and can make custom medical diet recipes for individual cats (expensive).
Note: Any homemade cat food recipes online should be avoided like the plague as they won’t be balanced and not getting enough taurine can send your cat blind. Treats for occasional use might be ok but don’t improvise the main diet. That’s also the reason you can’t feed cats on dog food. Dogs can make their own taurine but cats can’t
I gathered most of this data just from the packaging, which is why I'm a tad sus of Dine now. If I Google anything, I tend to stipulate "Aus" in the search, as I don't trust the US websites (and they use imperial, which CBF converting), though they are prolly fine lol.
Vetmed documents (PDFs) are also available, though the tend to just state what a cat requires over whether which foods have what in them.
I used this https://www.msdvetmanual.com/management-and-nutrition/nutrition-small-animals/nutritional-requirements-of-small-animals#Energy_v3328508
And this (and it's source FEDIAF) https://www.vpets.com.au/2021/01/nutrient-requirements-for-cats/#%3A%7E%3Atext=There+are+several+minerals+that%2Censure+the+quality+of+milk.
To understand what cats require of each mineral, vitamin, macronutrient, and amino acid (Taurine being an amino acid). I then used the manufacturers websites to determine whether it would contain these.
Avoid friskies if possible, I haven't looked into them, but it made Mickey very unwell.
Thanks, I’m saving this comment to look through the links