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Our vet did point out that cats eat carbohydrates; they tend to love the innards of their prey, and those often contain the undigested things mice etc eat. No idea what percentage of their diet that makes up though. (It wasn't a conversation about carb percentages in cat food)

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That’s also an interesting point. People have an aversion to those innards, or “by-products,” being included in food, but our disgust isn’t rational, and cats don’t share it. Just because a cat food includes meat by-products doesn’t make it any worse than just muscle meat, and it can be cheaper because of that. Cats like the flavor and it’s good for them.

> innards, or “by-products,”

the tasty innards you're talking about and the “by-products” that are in the industrial cat food are 2 very different things. The “by-products” is hide, horns, hooves, etc. with very heavy dose of strong preservatives, desinfectants and other chemicals.

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