Solid Gold Cat Food Review 2024

Searching for the best cat food for your fur-baby? Solid Gold is a premium pet food brand that’s well worth checking out. Established in 1974, this US-based pet food manufacturer offers a wide range of cat food recipes to provide complete and balanced nutrition for your pet. Solid Gold offers wet and dry food, formulas to suit special dietary needs like weight control or a sensitive stomach, and a range of protein sources to suit your cat’s taste preferences.

But is Solid Gold the best cat food for your cat? To find out, keep reading this Solid Gold review to find out about the brand’s recipes, ingredients, history, and pros and cons.

Start browsing Solid Gold’s cat food range and it immediately becomes apparent that the brand offers an extensive range of flavors. To better understand the recipes and nutritional benefits they offer, we’ve split Solid Gold cat food into 3 categories: dry food, wet food, and meal toppers.

Dry food

If you want to feed a dry diet to your cat, Solid Gold offers a choice of 9 kibble flavors. There’s a mix of grain-free and grain-inclusive formulas available, as well as weight control recipes and formulas designed for cats with sensitive stomachs.

Each recipe features a high-quality protein source as the first ingredient, and each is packed with nutrient-rich superfoods to support gut health and a strong immune system. Dry formulas feature 90 million living probiotics per pound of kibble for healthy digestion, plus omega fatty acids to promote skin and coat health.

Solid Gold dry food recipes include:

• Touch of Heaven Kitten Chicken & Sweet Potato
• Katz-N-Flocken Everday Nutrition Lamb, Brown Rice & Barley
• NutrientBoost Katz-N-Flocken Powered By Plasma Lamb, Brown Rice & Barley
• Fit as a Fiddle Weight Control Alaskan Pollock
• Indigo Moon High Protein Chicken & Eggs
• Indigo Moon High Protein Alaskan Pollock & Egg
• Let’s Stay In Indoor Cat Chicken, Lentil & Apple
• Let’s Stay In Indoor Cat Salmon, Lentil & Apple
• Winged Tiger Sensitive Stomach Quail & Pumpkin

Wet food

The wet food range from Solid Gold offers a wide selection of protein sources to suit your pet’s taste preferences and food sensitivities. The range features pates, mousses, bisques, and chunks or shreds of meat/fish in gravy.

Solid Gold wet cat food is grain and gluten free, and there are formulas designed to meet the nutritional needs of kittens, adult cats, and cats at all life stages. Formulas feature real meat, poultry, or fish, and a texture most cats love. Taurine is included to support vision and heart health, and vegetables like pumpkins, carrots, and spinach provide fiber for healthy digestion.

Solid Gold wet food recipes include:

• Flavorful Feast Classic Pate Kitten Chicken
• Flavorful Feast Classic Pate Salmon & Beef
• Flavorful Feast Classic Pate Indoor Recipe Chicken
• Flavorful Feast Classic Pate Tuna & Sardine
• Tropical Blendz Pate with Coconut Oil Chicken
• Tropical Blendz Pate with Coconut Oil Chicken Liver
• Tropical Blendz Pate with Coconut Oil Salmon
• Tropical Blendz Pate with Coconut Oil Turkey
• Purrfect Pairings Savory Mousse Chicken & Goat Milk
• Purrfect Pairings Savory Mousse Salmon & Goat Milk
• Purrfect Pairings Savory Mousse Tuna & Goat Milk
• Purrfect Pairings Savory Mousse Chicken Liver & Goat Milk
• Wholesome Selects Chunks in Gravy Chicken, Duck & Pumpkin
• Wholesome Selects Chunks in Gravy Chicken & Chicken Liver
• Wholesome Selects Chunks in Gravy Turkey & Pumpkin
• Five Oceans Shreds in Gravy Shrimp & Tuna
• Five Oceans Shreds in Gravy Tuna
• Five Oceans Shreds in Gravy Mackerel & Tuna
• Five Oceans Shreds in Gravy Sardine & Tuna
• Five Oceans Shreds in Gravy Sea Bream & Tuna
• Nature’s Harmony Shreds in Gravy Chicken & Tuna
• Triple Layer Pate, Mousse & Shreds Beef & Pumpkin
• Triple Layer Pate, Mousse & Shreds Chicken & Pumpkin
• Triple Layer Pate, Mousse & Shreds Salmon & Pumpkin
• Triple Layer Pate, Mousse & Shreds Turkey & Pumpkin
• Holistic Delights Creamy Bisque Chicken & Coconut Milk Pouch
• Holistic Delights Creamy Bisque Salmon & Coconut Milk Pouch
• Holistic Delights Creamy Bisque Tuna & Coconut Milk Pouch
• Holistic Delights Creamy Bisque Turkey & Coconut Milk Pouch

Meal toppers

Solid Gold’s meal toppers are designed to provide an extra boost of nutrients and flavor for your furry friend at mealtime. These toppers are bone broths that feature naturally occurring collagen to support strong bones and joints and keep your cat’s coat looking its best. They also add more texture to your pet’s meal, feature amino acids to support gut health, and help them stay hydrated.

Solid Gold meal toppers include:

• Bone Broth with Chicken Shreds
• Bone Broth with Salmon Shreds
• Bone Broth with Tuna Shreds

Treats

Solid Gold even offers 2 lickable treats for your furbaby to enjoy! Whether the SeaMeal Squeeze with Chicken in Gravy or the SeaMeal Squeeze with Tuna in Gravy, these fiber rich mousse blends include seaweed and flaxseed for healthy skin and digestion.

Vet recommended

Solid Gold is one of the cat food brands Dr. Georgia Jeremiah, pet nutrition expert and one of Wag!’s veterinary consultants, recommends to her clients. “Solid Gold cat food offers high-protein options with superfoods, antioxidants, and added probiotics for optimal feline nutrition. It is affordably priced, providing grain-free and tailored recipes to cater to various dietary preferences and needs.”

Huge range of flavors

Browse the Solid Gold pet food range and you’ll find an extensive range of flavors and formulas to choose from. No matter your cat’s taste or texture preferences, life stage, or special dietary needs, you’ll most likely be able to find something in the Solid Gold range to suit their requirements.

High in protein

Solid Gold offers a range of high-protein recipes to help your fur-baby develop and maintain healthy muscles and lead an active lifestyle. Recipes are also designed to provide all the vitamins and minerals your pet needs for a strong immune system and general wellbeing.

Probiotics for gut health

Gut health is crucial to support a strong immune system and to help your fur-baby stay in the best possible shape. Solid Gold cat food recipes are designed to promote a strong gut microbiome and support the beneficial bacteria on your pet’s GI tract. With this in mind, Solid Gold says its kibble contains over 90 million active probiotics per pound.

Grain-free formulas

Many products in the Solid Gold cat food range are grain-free. Grain-free diets are a controversial choice in the eyes of some pet parents in the wake of the FDA investigation into potential links between grain-free diets and canine dilated cardiomyopathy in dogs. Grain allergies are rare in cats, while there’s also no significant body of scientific evidence to indicate that cats need a grain-free diet.

Not the cheapest

While there are more expensive cat food brands on the market, there are also more affordable ones. Some customers complain that Solid Gold cat food is too expensive, so if you’re on a tight budget, you may want to consider other budget-friendly options.

Wet food not made in the USA

Solid Gold wet cat food is made in Thailand. So, if you’d prefer to have the peace of mind of feeding your fur-baby a food that’s manufactured in the USA, you’ll need to feed Solid Gold dry food or consider foods from other brands.

“My rescued junkyard cat was severely underweight and refusing all sorts of food at her foster homes. When I adopted her I eventually got her to eat this reliably. Four years she has eaten all of the Solid Gold grain-free foods reliably, and will only barely eat any other kind. Not sure why, but this cat loves this stuff and my vet approved it as long as she gets wet food and plenty of water too. She likes the quail one too. Lord above, PLEASE never discontinue this food.”

“My household LOVES Solid Gold. We have to put the bowl up sometimes because the cats won't stop eating it!”

“I am 10 years old and have eaten this variety of Solid Gold since I was a kitten. Mom likes it 'cause it's not messy like wet food (which I LOVE the extra gravy kinds, but she won't buy them). She's tried me on other kinds of dry foods, but I turn my nose up at them. (I'd never turn my nose up at turkey or chicken wet food, but I don't have a job so I can't buy any myself.)”

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The story behind Solid Gold is an intriguing tale that starts back in 1974. It was then that Sissy Harrington McGill, a Great Dane lover and a regular in the show ring, traveled to Germany. While there, she noticed that European Great Danes lived longer than their American cousins, and she eventually came to the conclusion that the reason for this discrepancy was the difference in diet.

Inspired by this revelation, Sissy made it her mission to bring higher-quality pet food to her homeland. She created her first recipe, Hund-N-Flocken, and Solid Gold was born.

Solid Gold has since branched out into cat food as well as dog food, and was acquired by Health & Happiness Group International Holdings Ltd. The group also owns Zesty Paws, which produces supplements for pets.

Solid Gold issued a voluntary recall in 2012 for foods from its Wolf Cub line of dog food. The recall was in response to potential Salmonella contamination after Salmonella was found in Diamond Pet Foods’ South Carolina facility where the food was manufactured.

Product images sourced from the Chewy website. Copyright Solid Gold Pet, LLC.