Top 11 Best Wet Cat Foods (We Tested Them All) 

Which of our top recommendations do you think your cat would like best? Let us know!

When she named it “All About Cats” she wasn’t kidding. Anything I search, her videos pop up.

*Me trying to research it myself* I just kept seeing contradicting reviews like 5 and 1 star reviews on every single product I looked at

If they won’t eat it or just pick at it then it doesn’t matter how healthy it is anymore, just end up having really well fed ferals and possum outside

Thank you for doing all this research! Much appreciated.

Thank you! I just learned about how bad kibble is for cats and have been researching all day. Cat nutrition and reading labels is so complicated. Thank you for your help! My kitty daughters deserve only the best!

Your level of research always impresses me. I go to this channel for all my recommendations. Keep up the great work

Her expertise is remarkable and so much appreciated!! She reviews everything so thoroughly that it is impressive. I find her to be highly reliable.

For those who are dealing with FOOD ALLERGIES/IBD/STOMACH CANCERS ETC. I recommend Hounds N Gatos (If food allergy or suspected I would avoid Chicken all together, remember a food allergy only happens if a cat has had prior consumption....since chicken is usually mixed in even with cans that dont mention it as a main ingredient it can be a main culprit to start with). Personally I had my cat on HNG PORK and Duck simply because he never ate that much, if at all in the past....Making it a safe try to rid the swelling from a food allergy etc. HNG has other flavors...Duck, seafood etc HNG has an extremely basic ingredients list making any extras that may be causing an allergy a non issue. Again, you cant force your cat to like something...but it is a good brand to attempt and see. My cat personally made a 180 turn around after a couple months on that brand. And for GODS SAKE....If you are fighting against Cancer or allergies...GET RID OF DRY FOOD...IT IS LIKELY WHY THE ISSUE EXISTS IN THE FIRST PLACE and REMEMBER....CANCERS LOVE CARBS WHICH IS WHAT DRY FOOD GIVES ABOVE ALL ELSE....It will take that fuel and grow faster with carb loads....AVOID IT. Just an opinion....Take care of your Buddy(ies) they are depending on you!

Thank you for your help! I just dropped $85 on just wet food and you helped me make all the right decisions. Now they have so much good stuff and variety!

We just discovered your channel. Thank you for the reviews and nutrient information... very helpful!

I would be weary of Nom Nom Now. We fed our new cat for about 3 weeks off Nom Nom Now, until she fell very ill and lost half her body weight over two days. We brought in a bag of what we were feeding her to our vet and she said she has had complaints from other owners that this meal isn't as balance as the company says and our kitty eating an unbalanced diet for 3 weeks caused her to get very sick very fast. :( it was awful, but as soon as we nursed her back to health on different food, she thrived.

Thank you so much for this video. I I’ve eliminated dry kibble from my 3 cats’ diet and so I need a financially sustainable wet food that was still a good choice. I never looked twice at WholeHearted but your reviews educated me and I just got a box of it! For something so similar to Weruva, it’s price is very sustainable. Thank you so much, your channel genuinely helps so much 💖

Thank you for doing all the research!

My kitties have tried the majority of these options. However, they got tired of weruva and tiki cat especially. But thankfully, i found an awesome substitute that was around the price pf tiki cat. It's called Fussie Cat and they have a variety of chicken flavors (ie. Chicken with duck, chicken with chicken livers, etc.) And tuna (tuna with mussels, tuna with clams, tuna with shrimp). I swear by this brand.

All about cats is my go to for info about cat food! I’m so glad there’s a RU-vid channel. The website was very helpful when picking out cat food; I like how you guys break it down to facts about each food that can easily be compared, like cost per day and the protein sources.

Thank you for this, really helpful!

Thank you! I can't afford most of these. VERY much appreciate you're divisions on the video, and your thorough reviews.

thank you so much for making this! i’m hoping to get a kitten soon and this is very informative for the wet foods i might get for them.

Great food reviews. Thank you.

Fabulous video! Succinct, helpful info. Thank you!

When my cat’s food was discontinued I was faced with finding a replacement that would agree with him. My research led me to TikiCat because of its very good reviews and its quality ingredient content, plus, it was available at my local pet supply store so I was able to try a can at a time. My boy loves the Succulent Chicken, so much so, that in the beginning I had to be watchful that he did not eat it too quickly or he made himself sick from gorging and threw it up. He used to devour it as if he had never been fed before! Now he knows that he will be fed it every morning so he is not quite so desperate to inhale it. He also likes the Ahi Tuna & Chicken flavor, but definitely prefers the Succulent Chicken. It might be worth mentioning, that he was a feral rescue when he was a young cat, and has always had food availability issues. 9 years later he still walks past his food bowl multiple times a day to make sure that it is still there. I keep a little dry kibble (also TikiCat) available to him for this reason. Thanks for the time that you spent doing this research. It is much appreciated.

Good research. I like how you analysed the quality, ingredients list and cat preferences rather than rating based just on price, convenience and what vets recommend.(they tend to recommend leading brands like Hills, purina and Royal Canins and if you look at some of their ingredients, they can be made with cheap fillers and questionably sources meat and by products) seems like you genuinely care about the health of the cats!🙂

I love the channel's concept💕 I wish there was a sister channel but with dogs. Keep up the great work

The Wellness Core I tried with Vita was from the “hearty cuts” line. It was Hearty Cuts 🐓 and 🦃 in gravy, a considerable upgrade from “Fancy Feast Shredded 🐓 or 🦃. I am pleased to say she went for it today. I think for the most part, this one has been the most succcessful so far. I have also tried “Instinct Limited Ingredient.” She is not really a pate cat, but I wanted to try Instinct anyway, since you mentioned it in this video. They didn’t have “Original “ at the store I went to on Monday. She didn’t even attempt to eat it. She sniffed it and walked away. Update: Vita ate the Instinct Limited Ingredient today after mixing it with the chicken bone broth and heating up the food in a bowl of hot water for 20 minutes. So there is hope yet. 😀

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I love the information and reviews they provide, but I do wish they would do a vid on more easily accessible brands in most stores

Great job! Thank you!

Very thorough and detailed, great job! Would be interested in seeing this same thing done with a little more budget friendly options, especially when trying to feed multiple cats. Thanks. Your hard work is appreciated!

There's the clinical world and the real world view (cat's opinion) that makes your videos special. Thanks for the nutritional and cost analysis and visuals of what the product looks like out of the can. Your four-legged volunteers give honest opinions; can't rig those votes.

When buying Weruva from my local pet store the manager was telling me how the Weruva distributor they worked with would literally eat one of the cat food flavors like chicken salad. A horrifying idea but looking at the ingredients (and the food) it honestly is a higher quality than the dinty moore meals and spaghettios I ate as a kid lmao. My cats absolutely love Weruva's oh my gravy line of food. It's a life saver for my cat with serious skin allergies and overgrooming problems. Her fur gets so glossy soft, and grows long enough you can actually see her stripes! Might try another brand to mix it up and see if it stops they heinously stinky poops (I doubt it unfortunately, since its basically just tuna with nothing else added).

So helpful - thank you!!

Thank you so much for the recommendation. Actually my Trevor should thank you. He loves the Wellness Core!!! I always thought he is not a big eater, but after I got him the Core. He eats twice as much as before!!

I really appreciate your videos!

I appreciate the time you took out to do this wonderful review my cats hadn't tried most of those you mentioned, i cant stress it enough how important wet food is to all cats , Cats naturally have a low thirst drive so a wet diet helps keep them hydrated the kidneys and liver are flushed constantly which is important.

not to sound weird or anything, but you're looking especially pretty in this video! thanks for all the good advice!

Thank you so much I appreciate the time you spend on all your videos helping cats and their owners so we can feed them quality food for good health and long lives. I was wondering do you have an updated video on recommended wet food choices. Thank you again.

I’m SO glad I found you Mallory! You are an amazing and super bright gal, who does a LOT of the footwork for us. Then you show us and make excellent suggestions! You are amazing and I thank you! I chose new litter boxes, water fountains, litter and now wet food….all from your shows🐆❤️😻. Consider me subscribed with the 🔔 on!😻😹🐆

This is awesome thanks !

I am so happy to see Wholehearted as those are great for stocking up. 69¢ per can! My girl loves Weruva Polynesian BBQ

good vid thanks for this. :)

Thanks for the recommendations! I have had a hard time finding a wet food my Manx likes and can digest, and that I'm also willing to pay for on a regular basis! Will definitely try some of these!

I’m loving your attention to details. Please do a review on “Rawls” cat food.

Wow! Thank you for all the time and research you put into this!

Your videos have been helping me. I'm getting my boyfriend's grandparents cat and she's a spoiled baby and I just want to get her the best food/litter possible

Weruva all the way! Not only is it mostly inexpensive(considering it doesnt have crap in it) but there also tons of varieties.

Great informative video

This is very helpful. My cats seem to enjoy Weruva and Wellness Signature ones.

I do both wet and dry food of hounds and gatos and my cat loves all of the flavors so far!

Thank you so much for this video! I’ve been feeding my cats Rachel Ray Nutrish as their dry food, with Sheba as their wet, and I thought those were good cause my cats love it and it doesn’t have all the by-products and such. My pickiest boy is really difficult to find food for, he only likes poultry pate and even then he won’t always eat it - which isn’t good since he needs to gain weight. I just got him the Nature’s Variety Instinct pate and I’m hopeful he’ll like it! He’s liked Whole Hearted sometimes, but not always.

Careful w the chicken flavored weruva, my cats like it so much that one of them started begging for it all day and now refuses to eat anything else.

Since ive started to warm my cats wet food up in a microwave for 10 secs and then mix ix with my fingers to make sure there are no hotspots He eats Any food 😊

My two girls LOVE Tiki Cat! We get all their flavors and they eat it all up!

Thank you so much!

Can you do a video on the best cat food for cats with sensitive stomachs? Love your videos!!!

Thank You!!

I trust you a lot you’re incredibly helpful

Your cats have the best job in the world! ;) Thank you so much for all your research! I currently feed instinct rabbit-which my cats love. It’s a bit pricey as I just took in another cat bringing my total to 5 cats. I’m looking for a good quality food to mix in w the instinct rabbit.

My cat has IBD and has been on dry Royal Canin Fiber Response dry food, all her 9 yrs of life, trying to switch her has been a nightmare for both of us, but thank you for this review, I’m on this journey with her and not giving up on her!

Thank you so much for explaining the health benefits of each cat food, and breaking it down by how much it would cost per day! I am going to try the Instinct one for my cat since he is a super picky eater! Does anyone else have picky cats????

I feed my 10 yro 19 lb male orange tabby Petco's Wholehearted Chicken Paté, senior formula. I always mix in warm water. Sometimes I mix in some dry kibbles of the same brand/flavor just so he has something hard to chew and scrape his teeth against. Seems pretty happy with it. After meals he squawks (he's a mute) at me for 10 min straight until I lay down on the couch, so he can lay on my chest and purr for 5 minutes. If I don't move too much, he falls asleep like that. Wholehearted is very affordable, especially when you join their rewards program and get discount on subscriptions (instead of one-time purchases).

First of all, thank you so much for doing so much thorough research and making these videos and blogs for pet owners to have as resources to best support the quality of life of their pets. Thank you so much. I’m so grateful that I ran into your website when searching the best type of cat foods. Now you’re the top resource I seek! I value your opinion so much more than the others! My personal question is, what would you recommend between these 2 that you’ve given positive feedback on: Authority chicken pate or the Whole Hearted chicken gravy featured in this video? Which of the 2 would you recommend more or is of higher quality? Where I found them, they’re the same price! I very much would like to feed my cat the best quality food to avoid health issues down the line so I want to get her off the dry food I am currently feeding her, which is Simply Nourish source indoor cat fish & chicken, which is high in protein and grain free (and I’d love if you could give your review/feedback on it someday perhaps!) as I can’t afford your #1 pick, Dr. Elseys protein cat right now unfortunately. I’d like to continue having some kibble in her diet but if it’s recommended to only do wet then I will switch over. For now I am on a budget unfortunately but soon enough I hope I’ll be able to buy weruva, instinct, feline cat, Stella and cheweys etc. and keep her on a consistent diet with those higher brands. Sorry for all the perhaps useless context, I appreciate your feedback/help if you happen to see this comment + have a lot of gratitude for your knowledge and support. Thank you!

My cat is a picky princess, she is a poster cat for fancy feast food, she likes it

I appreciate your videos they are definitely helpful. What do you think about the cat food brands Hills, Merrick, Weruva, and Pure Bites

Woohoo the brand I purchase made the list. Wellness brand for my cat! I only give him a small can on sat and sunday in addition to his kibble He really likes it. I purchase it when it's on sale at 1.09 a can.

Wow, I’m so sad that I cannot afford to feed my 7 cats any of these canned foods. I think it’s pretty unrealistic for most people who are not on the wealthy side, or who have only one or two cats. I’m afraid I must settle for less expensive, and perhaps less healthy store brands. And yes, kibble, too! PS. I rescue many unwanted cats turned in to the local shelter…so I think they’re happy to just get any food at all!

I just subscribed! 🙂

Your cats are so cute what a lovely little white paw awww. My cat won't touch pate. :( so we go with wuvera chicken and liver cause its low carb. He has crystalisis so have to be very carful.

Thank you can you do a video on Cat treats too I found your video very helpful.

Thanks for the info. I found a lot of gritty textured materials in instinct rabbit and vension formula. I wanted to check if it is too salty like nomnomnow so i tried to taste it for myself. It is almost like you pick up food and take it dropped on beach. Nomnomnow tastes so good for human who has salty tooth and my cat drunk tons of water after switched to this food.

Thanks so much for your reviews. I would like to see more options for senior cats, as kidney disease, high blood pressure and hyperthyroidism is very common w senior cats, starting at around 7yrs and older. Thankfully, due to your review of the senior food, it's off my list as both my old girls have these issues. Make sure the vet checks thyroid AND blood pressure.. mine didn't and 15yo kitty went blind as a result. After getting under control w meds, she can now see some, mostly shadows, but still an improvement. Really enjoy your channel! Thanks again!

Love that you review these foods.ive been trying to figure out a good one for my kitty's.i noticed you didn't have wellness complete turkey.i have older kitties one with arthritis.but she's not real crazy about wellness.but I don't want any food with alot of iodine.they mostly like pate because my oldest don't have teeth.i have tried some of the ones on your list.instinst is pretty good but I was wondering what you thought about the limited ingredient instinct?or if there is anything else you think would be good for senior kitties I do can food.price doesn't matter.thank you

I tried Pure Vita turkey pate, and Vita likes it! If it wasn't for this video and your online review, I would not have considered it. Thanks!

I fed my cat with pouches weruba and stella and chewy. Every other day and for topping i use raw rewards freeze dried chicken or liver. 😀

Thank you for doing this work. I'm studying the work of Dr. Karen Becker and her onus is the "ancestral diet" which includes bone and offal, as the cat would eat when killing prey. She says that the fat content should be at about 6%. None of these approximate that. The closest is Tiki at 13%. I plan to make my own batches of food, am currently working with a new kitty and trying several different brands during the transition. It's amazing the diversity of ingredients. Of course pets, like humans, are drawn to high-carb high-fat foods due to the taste, but it's not always the best FOR us.

Thank you 😊

My cat hates shredded or textured wet food. The only one that I’ve found that she LOVES is the Weruva Press your lunch chicken pate. It’s a little gelatinous? I would say but she absolutely goes crazy for it. It’s so hard because I haven’t seen another one with that consistency and my PetCo rarely ever has it

Could you do an episode on gums (carrageenan, guar, etc), why they are bad, which are the least worst, etc. and also phosphates? No matter how much you try to avoid them, it seems most cat foods have these :-(

My cat loves chunked and flaked cat food based on fish and chicken. He doesn’t like pate so much, even if it is made with fish and chicken. So far his favorite brands are Applaws and Tiki cat, especially the Ahi tuna.

Thank you for doing research sorry I have to say so very cute

Very informative! My kitties r very picky the male is a foodie and eats pates only and only if we break it up with a fork! Is a whopping 20 lbs 😳 need to cut the chonkers calories the female likes shreds in broth only loves almo naturals is 13 lbs .will definitely try the pates u suggested have done so in the past instinct, wellness none were approved will try the others tho!

I have two beautiful, exceptionally intelligent Siamese cats and they are probably the pickiest eaters I have ever seen. It's a challenge to find a food they will eat and will eat on a consistent basis. I have tried so many different brands but the three that they have a strong aversion to are three that appear on your list and they are 1.) Feline Natural 2.) Hound & Gato 3.) Dr. Elsey's Clean Protein. Normally my cats will approach a food slowly smelling it and checking it out with every small step forward they take but with Feline Natural, Hound & Gato and Dr. Elsey's Clean Protein there is no approaching it, the very first whiff of any of those three foods and they back away from it like it was the plague.

Thank you so much for the video!! Do you transition your cats slowly to all of these new foods or just always give them new food right away? Just wondering because I dont want to always feed them the same thing. Thanks!

the cat reluctant to eat the food, you should feed cats in a plate rather than a bowl, the bowl gets in the way of their wiskers.

A high end, raw food diet, is just over $2.00/day. Sticking with this☺ Thanks for your research!

My cat would not eat the Instinct food brand. But my cat does really seem to love the Core food brand!

Thank you for all of your research. I have a cat named Vita. I wonder how she would take to the Vita brand 🐈 food. 😆 She has been on high quality dry foods for most of her life (in her first year before I adopted her she ate tuna along with a very cheap form of dry food, like Meow Mix). She is nearly 14 years old. I made two attempts to switch over to wet or at least have a balance of both, at the age of 6 years and now. I have tried everything from Ziwi Peaks chicken (I think) which is very similar to Feline Naturals. She ate some of it. I have also tried 🇨🇦 Fresh and they have 🐔 and 🦃. Again, she ate some of each. She is not a huge fan of pates. I also tried another newer Canadian food company called Open Farm Pet. Their food is puréed. Vita ate very little of the pouches. Huge waste of 💴. It was still worth a try. Ziwi Peaks, Canada Fresh and Open Farm Pet are made with limited ingredients but there is no point if she won’t eat much of them. With Open Farm Pet, I started buying bone broths. At first I was using the bone broth with her dry food, but after a while she stopped eating the food. It was like I was contaminating her food. The other disadvantage is if you add bone broth to the dry food it expires the same way it does with wet food, and if Vita wouldn’t eat it, it would just end up going to waste. I have started buying Tikki Cat “After Dark” varieties. I have tried chicken and duck, and chicken. When taking it out of the fridge this was when I added the bone broth instead of hot water to give it more flavour. Sometimes she would eat it (but not a huge portion) and other times not. Vita often will only eat her canned food when I first open up the can and pour it in her bowl. She can detect when something is left over. Anyway, with Tikki cat, that is when I discovered she prefers the shredded meat. They have another one from the “After Dark” line with quail egg. She woudn’t go for that at all. I have tried Weruva with Vita when she was about 6 years old. I bought the pouches. She wouldn’t eat it. She might like it now, so I will check out Weruva again. I have read great things about them as well. Unfortunately, since Vita has been so fussy I have had to feed her a combination of Tikki Cat and Fancy Feast grilled chicken or turkey. She eats a sizeable portion of each. I know it is not the healthiest canned cat food, but according to info on a cat info site, it is still better than an exclusively dry diet. With her dry food, I have been using Cranimals to prevent/treat UTIs. I have to say this week she is doing so much better in terms of energy and stamina, and the quality of her urine. I have also tried goat’s milk (made for pets) but she won’t go for that either. I will not keep her on Fancy Feast forever, but to help with the transition. All of my cats were on Fancy Feast. They did fine on it. It’s a hit and miss process but I think we are getting closer to what we want. I know some of your brands are not available in 🇨🇦. Thanks again for your 👍 video. 😆

Tiki Cat is also GREAT for IBD kitties. :)

it'd be great to see the can close up when you talk about it. I'm wanting to get my cat off werwuva as I found out all of them have a tuna base but that is listed in small print

Could you please do a raw version of this? I've read your opinions on Chewies and Primal but I'd love to hear your thoughts in a video! :)

Oh thank god, we have been using tiki and weruva for years!

I wish I could give my one year-old cats a raw diet every day. That would be my optimal choice. Unfortunately I’m going to have to stick to wet cat food for now. I tried some kibble but then they won’t eat any wet at all and just crave the kibble all the time. So it’s very frustrating and this video helped me choose a decent wet food to give my cats. It’s just easier and much more affordable. Thank you for doing all these reviews for us.

My cat won't eat chicken at all but love fish, Whole Hearted ocean was a sniff than walked away, cat person tuna was great, instant fish was a no go but I'll be trying everything on the list hoping I can switch him completely to wet food

You need to add ZiwiPeak and Only Natural Pet to your list! Also, mention what Country each brand is from.

Could you do a video on non-pate wet foods? My cat despises pate and won’t even eat the Instinct food. I’ve been struggling to find a non pate food that has good ingredients. Bonus points if you have one for kittens.

If cat doesn't eat it from the bowl i take piece of food into my hand and my cat usually then tastes it and continues to eat. If cat even doesn't try it from hand i take small piece and put it in cats mouth to taste it, then if it still doesn't like it's definite. I wrote this because sometimes they can be put off by the smell of food but will like the taste once they try it. If they don't at least you get to feed homeless cats with good food. God bless

Thank you.

You review a lot of poultry recipes. Which brand would you recommend for a cat that doesn’t care much for chicken or turkey, but obsessed with tuna and salmon ?

i personally feed a mix of nulo medalseries beef and lamb recipe wet and hungry hunter raw cat food. my cat has a chicken allergy, and it's hard to find high quality wet without some chicken in it (she isn't a fan of fish based flavours) she loves the beef and lamb, and since it's a petsmart brand i get 50% off as i work there which is definitely a plus.

I can get my girls to eat Weruva Truluxe On the Cat Walk, Kawa Booty and Meow Me A River as toppers for Fancy Feast Medleys Shredded Chicken, Tuna and Trout respectively. My girls were adopted from two separate rescues during the same week. Apparently both rescues fed fancy feast and my girls would not switch over to a total Weruva diet. They also share a preference for shredded meats instead of pâté. My choices have been based on high protein - low fat options.