Searching for the best cat food for your feline? 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 for special dietary needs like weight control or a sensitive stomach, and a range of protein sources to suit your cat's taste preferences. 

Wag! highly rates Solid Gold cat food as it includes high-quality ingredients and high protein levels. It misses out on a top rating as some recipes don't list real meat as the top ingredient. 

But is Solid Gold the best cat food for your cat? Keep reading this Solid Gold review to learn 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 three categories: dry food, wet food, and meal toppers.

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.

Solid Gold dry cat foods are high quality. Most recipes feature 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. That said, some recipes, like Indigo Moon, include lower quality meat meals as the primary protein source.

Each dry formula features 90 million living probiotics per pound of kibble for healthy digestion, plus omega fatty acids to promote skin and coat health.

Generally, Solid Gold dry cat foods have a great protein and fat percentages. Indigo Moon Chicken & Eggs recipe has above-average protein (46.6% as dry matter) and above-average fat (22.2 as dry matter) levels compared to standard kibbles for cats. 

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 patés, 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. Some ranges, like Flavorful Feast, include vegetables like pumpkins, carrots, and spinach provide fiber for healthy digestion.

Solid Gold wet food recipes have excellent protein ratios but can be high in fat. The Flavorful Feast Salmon & Beef recipe contains above-average protein (55.5% as dry matter) and above-average fat (27.7% as dry matter) compared to standard wet cat food. 

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

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.”

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.

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 well-being.

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.

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 that are high in legumes and canine dilated cardiomyopathy. 

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. A more recent statement by the FDA suggests their investigation includes both grain-free and grain-inclusive dog foods. 

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

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.

There have been no recalls of Solid Gold cat foods as of March 2025. 

In 2012, Solid Gold issued a voluntary recall 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.

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