Nutro Wholesome Essentials Hairball Control Chicken & Brown Rice Recipe Adult Dry Cat Food
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Bring on the goodness and skip the hairballs with the Nutro Wholesome Essentials Hairball Control Chicken & Brown Rice Recipe Adult Dry Cat Food. Made with farm-raised chicken as the first ingredient, this food offers clean nutrition in every bite with plenty of protein for healthy muscles and a delicious flavor to keep your sidekick satisfied. The formula contains a natural fiber blend that helps minimize hairballs, for more yum with less mess. It’s packed with everything your pal needs to look and feel his best, like antioxidants for healthy immunity and omega-6 fatty acids for healthy skin and a soft, shiny coat. Plus, you won’t find any GMOs, corn, wheat, soy protein, chicken by-product meal or artificial colors, flavors or preservatives! Finally, a kibble you can feel good about giving to your adult cat.
Key Benefits- Crafted with vitamins, minerals and other nutrients.
- Features real chicken as the very first ingredient for the high-quality protein and flavor your adult feline deserves.
- Helps reduce hairballs with a natural fiber blend.
- Contains non-GMO ingredients sourced from Nutro's trusted suppliers and farmers.
- Made without corn, wheat, soy protein, chicken by-product meal or artificial preservatives, colors or flavors.
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Item Number86766
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Weight3.0 pounds
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LifestageAdult
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Food FormDry Food
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Special DietNo Corn No Wheat No Soy, Non-GMO
Chicken, Chicken Meal, Pea Protein, Whole Brown Rice, Dried Potatoes, Chicken Fat (preserved with Mixed Tocopherols), Oat Fiber, Potato Protein, Dehydrated Alfalfa Meal, Rice Bran, Whole Grain Oatmeal, Soybean Oil (preserved with Mixed Tocopherols), Natural Flavor, Psyllium Seed Husk, Potassium Chloride, Choline Chloride, DL-Methionine, Salt, Mixed Tocopherols and Citric Acid (Preservatives), Taurine, Zinc Sulfate, Vitamin E Supplement, L-Ascorbyl-2-Polyphosphate, Iron Amino Acid Chelate, Yucca Schidigera Extract, Vitamin B12 Supplement, Copper Amino Acid Chelate, Niacin Supplement, Manganese Amino Acid Chelate, Biotin, Riboflavin Supplement (Vitamin B2), D-Calcium Pantothenate, Thiamine Mononitrate (Vitamin B1), Vitamin A Supplement, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride (Vitamin B6), Sodium Selenite, Potassium Iodide, Vitamin D3 Supplement, Folic Acid, Rosemary Extract.
Caloric Content3697 kcal/kg, 404 kcal/cup
Guaranteed Analysis | |
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Crude Protein | 33.0% min |
Crude Fat | 17.0% min |
Crude Fiber | 6.50% max |
Moisture | 10.0% max |
Linoleic Acid | 3.60% min |
Calcium | 0.90% min |
Zinc | 300 mg/kg min |
Selenium | 0.35 mg/kg min |
Vitamin E | 250 IU/kg min |
Taurine | 0.18% min |
Omega-6 Fatty Acids | 3.75% min |
Weight | Daily Feeding |
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4 lbs | 1/4 |
8 lbs | 1/2 |
12 lbs | 2/3 |
16 lbs | 3/4 |
22 lbs | 1 |
If feeding Nutro Dog Food for the first time or changing formulas, we suggest you blend increasing amounts of the new formula with your old dog food for 6 days.
- Days 1 - 2: 25% Nutro/75% Old Formula
- Days 3 - 4: 50% Nutro/50% Old Formula
- Days 5 - 6: 75% Nutro/25% Old Formula
- Days 7+: 100% Nutro

NUTRO WHOLESOME ESSENTIALS Recipes
NUTRO WHOLESOME ESSENTIALS dry cat food always starts with great-tasting, high-quality protein from chicken, salmon, white fish, or turkey as the #1 ingredient. WHOLESOME ESSENTIALS recipes provide complete daily nutrition for your cat's unique life stage and needs by using natural ingredients plus vitamins, minerals and other nutrients.
Promotes Healthy Digestion
These nutritious recipes contain natural fiber from ingredients like beet pulp or oat fiber for healthy digestion. Best of all, these recipes are rich in nutrients and full of flavor for a satisfying and delicious meal.

Quality Ingredients
NUTRO WHOLESOME ESSENTIALS dry cat food recipes are made with non-GMO ingredients† from trusted farmers and suppliers. Each recipe always has a high-quality protein source as the #1 ingredient, and is crafted without chicken by-product meal, corn, wheat, soy protein or artificial flavors, colors or preservatives.
†Trace amounts of genetically modified material may be present due to potential cross-contact during manufacturing.
Healthy Skin and a Soft, Shiny Coat
Pet parents know that healthy skin and a soft, shiny coat are telltale signs of whole body health. NUTRO WHOLESOME ESSENTIALS recipes are crafted to promote healthy skin and a soft, shiny coat.

Real, Recognizable Ingredients With a Purpose

Chicken: This great-tasting protein source provides amino acids, which are essential nutrients that help promote strong muscles, aid in tissue repair, and help support a healthy immune system.

Brown Rice: Brown rice is an easily digestible, nutrient-rich grain. Brown rice provides balanced nutrition for your pet in the form of energy.

Chicken Fat: A source of omega-6 fatty acids that helps promote healthy skin and coat.

Flaxseed: Good source of omega-3 fatty acids, such as alpha-linolenic acid, for healthy skin and coat, and provides dietary fiber for digestive health.
About NUTRO
The NUTRO brand has a long history of making great pet food—since 1926, in fact. From the beginning, they've been pioneers in pet nutrition, and their quality products, high standards, long heritage and pet-loving people make all the difference.

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By TLRoss on Jan 11, 2021
My Cats Love to eat Nutro Wholesome Essentials Hairball Control Chicken and Brown Rice Adult Dry Cat food. Hairball expulsions are less frequent, their fur feels healthy, not dry, not flaky, feels smooth and silky. When brick and mortar store is out of stock...Chewy is the next best option for restocking my Pet Pantry!
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Cats like it
By nvr2amzd on Dec 28, 2020 Top 500 Contributor
I changed dry cat foods for my two indoor cats because the Maine Coon cannot tolerate anything with fish in it...and most cat foods contain a form of fish. For once, both of my cats (one Maine Coon and one tuxedo) like my choice for a new food! I mix this with equal parts of Nutro's Indoor Chicken & Brown Rice dry food and they are happy with the new food offering, which is not always the case with these two very picky, spoiled cats of mine!
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A Jaded Nutro Consumer
By doodleandthebubz on Oct 7, 2020 Top 10 Contributor
This is one of the few Nutro products that I haven't left an amazing review for... What has changed that I am so anti-Nutro? Well, for starters, they discontinued their Ultra "Plates" and their customer service is s***. It took almost 2 weeks to get an appropriate response from a customer service rep. They use a script. My dogs are very spoiled & have a refined palate, so I had to find another brand that they'll hopefully eat. The only reason I'm still purchasing Nutro for my cats because there is a void in tasty & high quality cat food and I don't want to aggravate the one cat's IBS.
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So far so cute
By Abzeez on Dec 28, 2020
I’ve been having a hard time finding a good that doesn’t make my cat throw up all over the place. So far this seems to be working for him. No puke!
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First purchase
By jpmccn on Jan 5, 2021
My cats approve of the new Nutro Essentials. This hairball control is my first purchase and I'm hoping this formula works as intended.
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Buy This Stuff - Its Cat Approved
By Nigel on Jan 10, 2021
It doesn't matter what I think. My cat, Komodo, is the one you have to please. And he really likes Nitro.
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Great product
By Jennifer on Dec 13, 2020
My cat loves the Nutro hairball control foos. It has helped her digestive system a lot. I would recommend this for your pet!
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Cats say no
By Kiki on Nov 12, 2020
I mixed it with the food they were eating so their stomach could get used to the change. They are digging out this new food & leaving it & eating only the old brand food.
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Awesome for hairball control!!
By Sarah on Nov 5, 2020
My cats absolutely love this cat food. It has made my older cats hair more silky and while he used to get hairballs every few days, he only gets them now once every few weeks!
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Cat crying tears
By Jessica on Aug 13, 2020
My cat had been happily eating Nutro Max for several years. Then, for some reason, they discontinued it. Decided to give this a try. It literally is aggravating and inflaming my cat's eyes and he has human-sized tears coming out of his eyes, that I had never seen before yesterday and today. The kibble itself looks good, but there must be something bad in it that is causing this adverse reaction. I'm pitching it and am going to try a Natural Balance kibble for him, since my 3 dogs do well on that brand. Goodbye, Nutro! Very disappointed.